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| Date: | 07 22 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers boxing McCormick-Deering mowers for shipment inside the packing department at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory was built in 1... |
| Date: | 04 17 1918 |
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| Description: | Workers loading wooden crates containing components for wagons or possibly "machine gun carts" onto railroad cars at International Harvester's McCormick Wo... |
| Date: | 02 17 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad steam engine transporting new McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) from Moline, Illin... |
| Date: | 09 21 1914 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men posing while standing and sitting on two small flat cars linked to each other. One of the cars is loaded with lumber. Another set of ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of yard behind the foundry at the McCormick Reaper Works. Several men and a horse are working among piles of parts and debris. The factory wa... |
| Date: | 04 12 1911 |
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| Description: | View of a new IHC Titan (?Mogul Tractor) tank-cooled portable engine loaded onto a flatcar for shipment from IHC's Milwaukee Works, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. S... |
| Date: | 10 01 1912 |
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| Description: | African American wagon driver standing with a horse-drawn wagon parked on a city street. The man is likely an employee of International Harvester, possibly... |
| Date: | 12 26 1935 |
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| Description: | Worker on an International I-30 industrial tractor used for "spotting" freight cars around the Miller Brewing Company. Two refrigerated rail cars are parke... |
| Date: | 07 24 1929 |
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| Description: | Men standing next to an International heavy-duty oil truck. Two delivery drivers from Barrington Transfer Company are in the cab of the truck. An oil well ... |
| Date: | 10 27 1936 |
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| Description: | Worker Harry Straka transporting two large drums of paper with an International I-12 powered fork-lift at Oceanic Terminals wharf. The fork-lift was one of... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Shipping crates at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company factory. The crates contain a Little 4 mower bound for Anderson & Mattson of Malmo, a McCormick... |
| Date: | 06 11 1925 |
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| Description: | African American worker standing and loading cargo from a crane into a railroad boxcar from an International truck. Another worker is sitting behind the dr... |
| Date: | 07 08 1912 |
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| Description: | Three workers unloading planks of wood from a Frisco railroad boxcar in a lumber yard outside International Harvester's Deering Works. |
| Date: | 04 21 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Commercial Club Band posing at a rail yard with a newly arrived shipment of McCormick-Deering ball-bearing cream separators. The cream... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Twine mill with shipping platform at the McCormick Reaper Works, just after construction. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine company... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a boat called "The Imperial" moored along the dock at the McCormick Reaper Works. The boat is loaded with freight. In the backgro... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | McCormick Reaper Works and wood shop stock yard as seen from across a canal. In the foreground is a rail yard with a small engine and rail cars. The factor... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Dock workers preparing boxed farm machines for loading onto a ship at the McCormick Reaper Works dock. The boxes contain McCormick Daisy reapers, New 4 mow... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Derailed locomotive and coal car. Wreck on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway, locomotive #287, in the vicinity of Black River Falls. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Two men unloading Weber wagon parts from a railroad car in front of the Umpleby Implement Company while a portly man in a bowler hat is gesturing from a di... |
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