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Worker Transporting Parts at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works

Date: 1920
Description: Worker using a motorized shop cart ("shop mule") to transport parts between buildings at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The cart was manufactur...
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Tractor Works 8-16 Tractor Assembly Line

Date: 1920
Description: Factory workers assembling International 8-16 tractors on an assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Conklin Ice House

Date: 1912
Description: Men harvesting ice at the Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. The men are using pike poles to slide the blocks to the conveyor and U-shaped tools to split p...
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Evansville Works Warehouse

Date: 03 1947
Description: View of north section of International Harvester's Evansville Works warehouse testing of new conveyor line. The Evansville Works also produced refrigerator...
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Ice House Bay

Date: 1913
Description: Ice House Bay and the lake. A man and a dog are standing on dock in the foreground, and on the right is a man in rowboat. There is a large building on the...
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Metro Dispatcher for Hazan's Telephone Supermarket

Date: 1958
Description: Dispatcher Bud Hufford loading groceries onto one of seven International Metro trucks owned by Hazan's Telphone Supermarket.
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Northeast View of Power House Coffer Dam at Power Dam

Date: 08 07 1912
Description: Men excavating within the coffer dam. One man is standing on a high piling. Several steam engines at work fill the air with smoke. The high trestle and fou...
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Factory Conveyor at West Pullman Works

Date: 1947
Description: A man working with metal parts as they are carried in baskets along a conveyor suspended from the ceiling at West Pullman Works.
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Husker and Shredder Near Barn

Date: 1912
Description: A man operating a Husker-Shredder near a barn and silo. The husker-shredder is powered with a belt connected to an engine.
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Assembly Line at Springfield Works

Date: 1937
Description: A group of men wearing overcoats and hats are standing on either side of an International truck on the assembly line at International Harvester's Springfie...
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Chassis Paint Line at Springfield Works

Date: 1937
Description: Factory workers wear protective masks and clothing while on the chassis paint assembly line at International Harvester's Springfield Works.
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Men Working in McCormick Foundry

Date: 1900
Description: View across foundry floor of factory workers in a large room with high ceilings, vent hoods and skylights at McCormick Works. Two men in the middle ground ...
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Osborne Works Molding Unit

Date: 1940
Description: Men are using Champion Jolt Squeeze molding machines in the molding unit at International Harvester's Osborne Works factory.
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Men at McCormick Loading Docks

Date: 1900
Description: Factory workers are loading a wooden crate marked "McCormick Folding Daisy Reaper" using a pulley system in the docks of the McCormick Works.
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Packaging Onions

Date: 1965
Description: Farmers package onions for shipping. Two women and a man pack and sew closed mesh bags of onions. Another man hoists full bags onto a conveyor belt, while ...
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Filling Tire Molds

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated view of a room in the Boone Tire Factory. Two men are removing a tire from a mold, one of many running along a conveyor belt inside the Boone Tire...
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Man Loading Fertilizer onto Horse-Drawn Manure Spreader

Date: 04 18 1927
Description: A man wearing a hat loads a large bin of fertilizer, with the aid of an overhead pulley system attached to a barn, onto a manure spreader that is being pul...
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Crawler Tractors in IH Factory

Date: 1959
Description: Workers steady a crawler tractor (TracTracTor) as it is moved by a ceiling-mounted conveyor at an International Harvester factory, possibly Tractor Works.
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Harvesting Cranberries Contained by Booms

Date: 1997
Description: Harvesters wade through cranberries contained by booms in the cranberry marsh as they travel on a conveyor belt into the waiting trucks.
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Man at Conveyor Belt for Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1997
Description: A man stands in the water next to the conveyor belt that transports cranberries into the truck.

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