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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Left side view of an International Model KB-10 truck owned by Consumers Company and outfitted with a fuel oil tank. The text on the truck reads: "Better Fu... |
| Date: | 10 16 1926 |
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| Description: | A man looks out the passenger-side window towards the back of an International heavy duty truck (possibly a model 103). There is a ladder attached to the s... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | An unidentified United Packinghouse of America member. He is wearing badges that identify him as an employee at the Swift Company plant in Chicago and the ... |
| Date: | 03 11 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of buildings at McCormick Works. |
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| Description: | View across the water of the mouth of the harbor with boats in Chicago. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of rows of railroad cars at the lakefront in Chicago, south of the Randolph Street viaduct. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of downtown Chicago before the fire of 1871. The photograph was taken from the South side of the Chicago River, looking Northeast. The Rush ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering corn binder parked outside a Chicago factory, most likely the McCormick Works. Decals and/or stencils are on the machine. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of stock yards with cattle. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Chicago Union Stock Yards. |
| Date: | 11 13 1958 |
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| Description: | International Harvester factory workers hold signs as they picket while participating in a "steel strike" near Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 11 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of members of the Farm Equipment Workers Union meeting in a parking lot of the McCormick Works factory located at the corner of Oakley and Bl... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | International KB-5 truck unloading at loading dock. Original caption reads: "An International KB-5 with 76-inch wheelbase owned by Motor Cargo Incorporated... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man unloads bags of laundry from the back of an International D-2 panel truck owned by Baxter Laundry. The truck is parked near a hangar and inside is an... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of what appears to be the McCormick Reaper Works, with the west fork of the south branch of the Chicago River in the foreground. Smokestacks, railroad... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A locomotive for the Northern Railway is backed up near the closed doors of a brick building which sits on the railroad tracks, probably on the grounds of ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A locomotive for the Northern Railway sits on railroad tracks, probably on the grounds of the McCormick Works. The side of the locomotive reads: "Northern ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Color photo of an International Fleetstar truck outfitted with a garbage hauler. The truck was owned by Deck's Disposal Service and appears against a backg... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Collage depicting multiple McCormick buildings reconstructed or built after the Chicago Fire. The caption at bottom reads, "Rebuilt Chicago. — Buildings Er... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | View of a man in a red jacket holding paint brushes and a palette while standing atop a truck trailer. The side of the trailer is painted with a mural of f... |
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