Photograph
Tractors on Rail Cars for "Food and Defense"
Factory workers loading Farmall tractors onto rail cars outside International Harvester's Tractor Works. Original caption reads: "Machines for use in the peacetime or wartime production of food and military activity. On the long line of flat cars on the left are Farmall tractors destined for food production. Lined up parallel on flat cars at the right is a long line of crawler-type tractors destined for the army to be used in military field operations. Thus is illustrated the dual services of the Harvester Company in this period-production for food and defense."-caption with photograph. |
Image ID: | 59487 |
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Creation Date: | circa 05 01 1941 |
Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
City: | Chicago |
County: | |
State: | Illinois |
Collection Name: | International Harvester Company photo albums, circa 1899-1965 |
Genre: | Photograph |
Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 7Z, Album 555 Page 19 |
Original Dimensions: | 9.25 x 7.5 inches |
Conveying machinery |
Tractors |
Hats |
Work clothes |
Factories |
Agricultural machinery industry |
Weapons |
World War, 1939-1945 |
Men |
Outdoor photography |
Railroads |
Blue collar workers |
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