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| Description: | Workers making binder attachments in the binder attachment department at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Mach... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers assembling mowers in the Mower Room of the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine company before 1902. I... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers hand painting hundreds of McCormick mower main frames hanging in the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Mach... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers pinstriping hundreds of binder frames inside at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine company befor... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers handling mower wheels during painting process in the mower wheel paint shop at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick H... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two workers among hundreds of hay rake wheels stacked on a shipping platform next to rail cars at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across large field dotted with many piles of harvested grain. In the middle distance is a man on a what may be a horse-drawn binder, and another man i... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers are loading a wooden crate marked "McCormick Folding Daisy Reaper" using a pulley system in the docks of the McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of factory workers testing(?) the binding mechanisms for grain binders at the McCormick Reaper Works. Loose hay and hay bundles are ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Equipment pieces are stacked on either side of an aisle in the packing room at McCormick Reaper Works. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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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: | Factory workers use a balling machine at the McCormick Twine Mill to wind twine onto wooden spools. |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cover for Light Running Plano binders, mowers, headers, reapers, hay rakes and sickle grinders. Features an illustration on the top left in gold ink on a r... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Bales of twine next to a manufacturing machine at McCormick Works. Coils of manila are fed into the machine, which is belt-driven from the ceiling. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men inside the McCormick Works standing at machinery doing research and development. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Early design of binder inside McCormick Works. There is a white sheet hanging in the background for a backdrop. |
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