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Cutting the Curd

Date: 1914
Description: A worker cuts curd to make Swiss cheese at the Jorden Cheese factory.
Photograph

Hooping the Curd

Date: 1914
Description: Workers hooping the curd to make cheddar cheese at the Plymouth Cheese factory.
Painting

Horlick's Malted Milk Factory

Date: 1914
Description: Horlick's Malted Milk Factory.
Photograph

Worker Tending Machine at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: A worker at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works draining fluid from a machine with a large gear poised over his head. The factory was owned by the Mi...
Photograph

Workers Relaxing Outside Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: Workers relaxing outside International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. One group is crowded around a stage listening to a band while others are playing baseba...
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Worker Machining Gear Wheels at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: Factory worker operating a gear cutting machine at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The gears were used for Lily cream separators. The factory wa...
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Workers Machining Parts at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: Factory workers using metal lathes to machine parts at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company ...
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Mogul Tractors Loaded onto Railroad Cars

Date: 1914
Description: Elevated view of Mogul tractors loaded onto railroad cars outside International Harvester's Tractor Works. A variety of parts, engines, implements, and tra...
Photograph

Factory Workers at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: Factory workers working with gears at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works.
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Factory Workers at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: Factory workers machine parts at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works.
Photograph

Worker Heats Metal at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: A worker prepares to stamp a heated metal rod at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works (factory).
Photograph

P&H Crane Operator Cab

Date: 1914
Description: Operators cab of a Pawling & Harnischfeger crane at the Illinois Steel Co. warehouse in South Chicago.
Photograph

P&H 3-Ton Monorail Hoist with Grab Bucket

Date: 1914
Description: A Pawling & Harnischfeger monorail hoist with a grab bucket. The rail is stamped with the text "Capacity 6,000 Lbs., No. 3245". A man stands in the cab loo...
Photograph

Horizontal Hole Boring Drill

Date: 1914
Description: A horizontal hole boring drill, presumably at the Pawling & Harnischeger factory, drilling holes into crane parts. There is a man on the lift operating the...
Photograph

Plowing a Field

Date: 1914
Description: View along freshly upturned furrow in an open field. In the middle ground a team of three horses pulls a plow(?) through the field. Homes and factory build...
Photograph

Valecia Condensery Milk Company

Date: 1914
Description: Exterior of the Valecia Condensery Milk Company factory. The company's sign is painted on the crow-stepped gable wall of the factory. The sign reads, "Vale...
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Layout of Plant Yard

Date: 1914
Description: Layout drawing of plant yard, showing 1/2 of yard.
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Layout of Plant Yard

Date: 1914
Description: Layout drawing of plant yard, showing 1/2 of yard. Text at bottom reads: "International Harvester Company of New Jersey, 'McCormick Works' Chicago, Ill."
Postcard

The Badger Woolen Mills

Date: 1914
Description: View toward the mills with a water tower on the right. Caption reads: "The Badger Woolen Mills, Grafton, Wis."
Photograph

Soldiers Repairing Roads

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers are using the stones of a destroyed factory to repair and improve a roadbed. The walls of the destroyed factory are in the background.

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