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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1886
Description: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company annual catalog cover featuring an illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat. Below the text reads: "Harvesting...
Photograph

Typesetters at International Harvester Press

Date: 1947
Description: Two men operating monotype keyboards at International Harvester Press. The paper-punched product later goes through a caster, which makes new type to print...
Photograph

Forest Nursery

Date: 1951
Description: Aerial view of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company nursery.
Photograph

Visitors Enter Diesel Engine Exhibit Trailer

Date: 05 25 1938
Description: Visitors entering the trailer of International Harvester's touring diesel engine exhibit.
Photograph

McCormick Works

Date: 1911
Description: International Harvester's McCormick Works on the river with railroad tracks and a cargo dock. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Com...
Photograph

Anthracite Service Booth

Date: 06 17 1931
Description: Anthracite Service Booth at Coal Convention, U.W. Armory, with a map of the United States and various service centers. There is a coal stove on display.
Photograph

State Office Building Construction

Date: 11 02 1930
Description: View of the State Office Building, 1 W. Wilson Street, under construction, from Lake Monona. The photographer's shadow and railroad tracks are in the foreg...
Photograph

Aerial View of Evansville Works

Date: 1947
Description: Aerial view of International Harvester's Evansville Works factory complex. The Evansville Works produced refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners.
Photograph

Filling Orders at Harvester Press

Date: 03 26 1925
Description: Men and women sorting publications for distribution at Harvester Press, International Harvester's in-house print shop.
Poster

Signboard Showing Factory Safety Measures

Date: 1916
Description: A poster or signboard showing seven different mechanical safeguards on machines in International Harvester factories. The poster is one of a series illustr...
Poster

"First Aid Rooms" Factory Safety Poster

Date: 1916
Description: A poster or signboard showing six first aid rooms at six different International Harvester factory and office locations: Champion Works, Akron Works Dispen...
Poster

Safety Poster on Shop Lighting

Date: 1916
Description: A poster or signboard describing lighting specifications at International Harvester factories and their contribution to employee health and safety. Four fa...
Poster

Health and Safety Poster Illustrating Employee Lunch Rooms

Date: 1916
Description: Poster or signboard with the title: "Lunch Rooms - A Clean and Neat Place to Eat: Makes Food More Palatable." Includes images of lunch rooms or cafeterias ...
Poster

Poster Promoting International Trail Magazine

Date: 1935
Description: Poster or display board promoting International Trail magazine. The magazine featured the International truck line. The poster was intended for Inte...
Photograph

"Deseret News" Truck

Date: 08 03 1933
Description: A group of young men riding in the back of an International truck used by the "Deseret News" of Salt Lake City, Utah. The truck is parked at the "A Century...
Photograph

Lillian Anderson on a W-30 Tractor at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 06 30 1933
Description: Queen of the "A Century of Progress" exhibition, Lillian Anderson of Racine, Wisconsin, poses behind the wheel of a McCormick-Deering W-30 tractor in the I...
Photograph

Main Reducer and Incher

Date: 07 1977
Description: Duane Hanson and Norbert Winski attend to a large reducer and incher. This unit was purchased by Allis Chalmers and used by the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Compa...
Photograph

Printing Pamphlets at Highlander

Date: 
Description: Two men creating pamphlets using a mimeograph duplicator machine at Highlander Folk School. The African American man to the right is wearing a button that...
Document

Berlin Woolen Mills Letterhead

Date: 1876
Description: Letterhead of the Berlin Woolen Mills bearing an engraving of the factory, which is unusual because of its French Mansard roof.
Photograph

Farmall 100 Tractor on Display

Date: 1955
Description: A Farmall 100 tractor on display in a showroom. The showroom may have been at the International Harvester headquarters in Chicago, Illinois.

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