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| Description: | "Knotter men" work at tables in the McCormick Twine Mill. Windows line one wall of the brick room, and a system of belt-driven machinery is arranged along ... |
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| Description: | Factory workers stand at tables while working to assemble farm equipment at the McCormick Reaper Works factory. |
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| Description: | Library of the McCormick family home at 675 Rush Street. The home was built for Cyrus Hall McCormick and his wife Nettie Fowler in 1873. |
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| Description: | View down an aisle of male factory workers seated at machines in the McCormick Reaper Works. The machines are belt-driven from the ceiling. |
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| Description: | Factory workers use a belt-driven universal boring machine at the McCormick Reaper Works. Additional workers stand near a wall lined with windows in the ba... |
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| Description: | Factory workers assemble grain binder parts at the McCormick Reaper Works. Metal machinery pieces are stacked at right and men work at tables to the left n... |
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| Description: | Factory workers feeding sisal or manila fiber into machines, most likely at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
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| Description: | Male workers standing at stations positioned along a wall of windows inside the McCormick Reaper Works. A belt-driven power system is suspended from the ce... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a bathroom at the McCormick factory. A row of sinks are standing in the foreground, and several toilet stalls with overhead tanks are along the bac... |
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| Description: | Factory workers use a balling machine at the McCormick Twine Mill to wind twine onto wooden spools. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A factory worker uses a spreader machine to work with sisal fiber during the production of binder twine at the McCormick Twine Mill. White sheets are hangi... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers stand with piles of sisal fiber used in the production of binder twine. The fiber is fed into spreading machines on the right. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers in the weighing and sacking room at the McCormick Twine Mill. A scale is standing in the background at right. White sheets are hanging in t... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men feed sisal fiber into a combing machine during the production of binder twine at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men use teams of horses to excavate a lot to be used as the site for the future McCormick Twine Mill. |
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| Description: | Two male factory workers look on as sisal fiber extends out of a finisher and piles in metal containers at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three men open bales of sisal fiber at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sisal (hennequen) fiber streaming from machines at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a young woman posing wearing a dress and bonnet in a studio. She is holding two young pigs. The image was likely used by the McCormick Harvesti... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Advertisement from catalog featuring an illustration of the Jones Chain Mower, and a man using it in a field with a team of horses. Around the border are i... |
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