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Photograph

Worker Operating Forge Hammer at Canton Works

Date: 11 03 1941
Description: A factory worker operates a forge hammer at International Harvester's Canton Works. Original caption reads: "Shell Package Case Stops, Canton Works. Forge ...
Photograph

Draw Furnace at Canton Works

Date: 11 03 1941
Description: A factory worker places charges into an electrically controlled draw furnace at International Harvester's Canton Works. Original caption reads: "Shell Pack...
Photograph

Worker Trimming Forgings at Canton Works

Date: 11 03 1941
Description: A factory worker trims forgings at International Harvester's Canton Works. Original caption reads: "Shell Package Case Stops, Canton Works. This operation ...
Photograph

Boys Playing Baseball At Brunnerdale Seminary

Date: 1910
Description: Uniformed boys play baseball at Brunnerdale Seminary. A fence and trees stand in the background.
Poster

Voters Welcome

Date: 
Description: A poster with an image of armed law enforcement officers surrounding a building during an election or voter education meeting. The text reads, "Voters Welc...
Photograph

Freedom Day

Date: 02 28 1964
Description: Civil rights activities near the Canton, Mississippi courthouse. Two police officers are pictured holding shot guns and carrying bags of tear gas equipment...
Print

Peerless Reaper Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1880
Description: Front of advertising card featuring an illustration of a man woken up by a horse, on whose side is written: "Nightmare." Text above and below reads: "Why d...
Book or Pamphlet

Peerless Reaper Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1880
Description: Catalog cover with gold and black ink illustrations. In the center a woman standing on a globe of the earth carries a sheaf of wheat on her shoulder and a ...
Book or Pamphlet

P&O Light Draft Plows Catalog Cover

Date: 1919
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man using a hand plow with a team of two horses in a field.
Book or Pamphlet

P&O Charrues Canton

Date: 1919
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man on a plow using a team of horses to work in a field. A large building is in the background.
Photograph

Men Using Three Horse-Drawn Binders

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards three men using horse-drawn binders in a field. Another man rides a horse behind the binders. In the foreground piles of grain ar...
Photograph

TD-24 — Road Building

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "TD-24 — Road Building." Where Taken: "SE." Information with photograph reads: "TD-24 and B-E S-152 scoop are doing the final grading on a highway...

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