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Telephone Line Repairmen at Work

Date: 08 15 1929
Description: A crew of telephone line repairmen working on a rural line with their International truck parked below them. An IH truck, with storage compartments sitting...
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Telephone Line Repairmen with International Service Truck

Date: 08 15 1929
Description: Telephone line repairmen preparing to work on a residential line. One is climbing a ladder and the other is setting up a soldering unit. Their Internationa...
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Exhibit Case on a Factory Floor

Date: 1900
Description: A wooden exhibit cabinet, apparently recently constructed, on what appears to be a factory or shop floor with a work table, ladder, saw horse and wood shav...
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Processing Facility

Date: 1902
Description: Men standing around a brick processing facility that may be near a body of water. A burn-barrel is in the foreground.
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Two Men Preparing for Utility Work with International Truck

Date: 08 15 1929
Description: One man is climbing a ladder, while another man is crouched examining what appears to be a stove surrounded by a metal windbreak. In the background is an I...
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Men Load Pipes onto Flatbed Hauled by IH Tractor

Date: 09 28 1928
Description: Five men loading pipes onto a flatbed trailer being pulled by an IH 10-20(?) industrial tractor. In the background is a large building, probably a manufact...
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Construction Work at Osborne Works

Date: 1910
Description: Several men are standing and sitting around a construction site at International Harvester's Osborne Works. Lumber is stacked in the yard, and in the backg...
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Construction Work at the Osborne Works

Date: 1910
Description: Four men are lifting a large piece of beam during the construction of a factory building, most likely at International Harvester's Osborne Works. There is ...
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Men Harvesting with a Vertical Stationary Engine

Date: 1911
Description: A man on the right is standing and leaning against a large cart which contains a vertical stationary engine. Three men on the left are working in the backg...
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View of Manufacturing Area at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Men working in a manufacturing area of the factory. Belt-driven machinery is attached to the high ceiling of the brick factory. Barrels are sitting on the...
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Manufacturing Area at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Men working in a manufacturing area at McCormick Works. The men are heating rods at a machine. On the floor beside the machine are more metal rods.
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Foundry at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of men working in a foundry.
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Wash Room at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: View of wash room at McCormick Works. In the middle of the room is a double row of wash sinks. In the background are lockers. On either side of the sinks a...
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Corn Binder at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Corn binder set up on a drop cloth. There is a studio backdrop behind the binder. A wall, or railroad car with the painted letters "?KEE" is above and behi...
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Powered Hay Press at Champion Works

Date: 12 27 1915
Description: Powered press set up outdoors in front of a backdrop against the side of a brick factory wall.
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Powered Hay Press at Champion Works

Date: 02 02 1916
Description: Powered hay press outdoors in front of a backdrop against a brick factory wall.
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Men Using Separators Filling Barn

Date: 1920
Description: Side view of men using separators to fill barn. Snow is on the ground.
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Silo Filling Operation

Date: 1914
Description: A man is standing near a tractor on the left, which is belt-driving an ensilage cutter near a silo. Farm buildings are on the right.
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Silo Filling Operation

Date: 1914
Description: Two men are working with an ensilage cutter near a silo. The man on the left is feeding silage into the machinery. The man on the right is wearing a suit a...
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Elevated View of Manufacturing Area

Date: 1930
Description: Slightly elevated view of factory floor at McCormick Works.

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