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Alexander Legge

Date: 09 20 1923
Description: Alexander Legge (1866-1933) with a pitchfork full of hay at a Thresher demonstration at International Harvester's Hinsdale farm. Men are milling around a t...
Photograph

Experimental Motor Cultivator

Date: 12 03 1920
Description: Engineering photograph of a man testing an experimental motor cultivator. Original caption reads: "In this job the cultivator is set farther ahead than in...
Photograph

Experimental Tractor with Attached Cultivator

Date: 1920
Description: Engineering photograph of an experimental, reversible, early Farmall (?) tractor with attached cultivator.
Photograph

North Michigan Avenue at Ontario Street

Date: 1933
Description: Street scene in Chicago of North Michigan Avenue and Ontario Street looking north. The historic Water Tower is in the background.
Photograph

Chicago's Wacker Drive at Clark Street

Date: 1933
Description: Chicago's Wacker Drive at Clark Street, looking north. Buildings, water towers and railroad boxcars are along the Chicago River waterfront, as well as a Co...
Photograph

Farmall Regular with Attached Harrow

Date: 06 06 1924
Description: Man operating an early Farmall Regular tractor with attached harrow.
Photograph

Milwaukee Harvester Works

Date: 1919
Description: Panorama of International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory building. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company before 1902.
Photograph

Memphis Foundry

Date: 1954
Description: An aerial view of the International Harvester Memphis Works in Memphis, Tennessee, with a view of the surrounding neighborhood and Loosahatchie River. The ...
Photograph

Milwaukee Works Factory

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory.
Photograph

Farmall M Tractor and "Flame" Cultivator

Date: 06 13 1949
Description: Engineering photograph of a Farmall M(?) tractor with an "M" flame cultivator in a yard outside an International Harvester factory. The machinery may be ex...
Photograph

Fort Wayne Motor Truck Engineering Department

Date: 1965
Description: Exterior view of International Harvester's Motor Truck Engineering Department. Original caption reads, in part: "...The company also operates a 160,000 sq....
Photograph

Milwaukee Works Aerial View

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of International Harvester's Milwaukee Works.
Book or Pamphlet

Shelby Tractor and Truck Hourglass Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet produced by the Shelby Tractor and Truck Company advertising Shelby Model C and D tractors. The cover features an illustration of ...
Print

Lauson Factory

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated-view illustration of the John Lauson Manufacturing Company factory. The company made Lauson tractors and Lauson Frost King gasoline engines.
Book or Pamphlet

Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation

Date: 1918
Description: Back cover of a pamphlet advertising the Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation. The advertisement features an illustration of the Ingeco Engine Plant ...
Print

Tractor Uses

Date: 1925
Description: Advertisement for the La Crosse kerosene tractor featuring photographs of the tractor in use on farm jobs. The headline reads: "The HAPPY FARMER Really Bur...
Print

Allis-Chalmers Sales Drive Pamphlet

Date: 1921
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Allis-Chalmers sales drive. The cover features illustrations of the New Allis-Chalmers Tractor Foundry and a side...
Photograph

Truck Trailer with Mural of Endangered Animals

Date: 1975
Description: Three men are looking at a trailer with a woman posing on roof holding a paintbrush to a painted mural. One of the men is Ricardo Alonzo, muralist and dire...
Photograph

Postal Carrier and Route Truck

Date: 1970
Description: An African-American postal carrier is standing on the sidewalk with mail in a rolling cart. He is wearing a winter postal employee uniform and a hat. Behin...
Photograph

Scout Parked in Field

Date: 
Description: Red or orange Scout parked in a large field of mowed grass. There is a water tower in the far background.

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