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| Date: | 07 29 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers pouring alloy into a stream of iron in the foundry of International Harvester's Tractor Works. The factory was located at 2600 West 1st Blvd. |
| Date: | 05 20 1911 |
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| Description: | Two workers in the "drop hammer malleable foundry" at International Harvester's Deering Works. The factory was owned by the Deering Harvester Company befor... |
| Date: | 05 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers making molds for castings with new sand conveyor units inside the foundry of International Harvester's McCormick Works. The McCormick Works was bui... |
| Date: | 07 22 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers manufacturing parts in a forge shop at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in 1873 and beca... |
| Date: | 09 09 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man standing near railroad cars which appear to be loaded with coal and ore inside IHC's McCormick Works railroad yard. Other men are wo... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers in the metal finishing room at the McCormick Reaper Works. In 1902 the factory became part of the International Harvester Company. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Factory worker in a protective suit, mask, and gloves cleaning engine blocks in the foundry sand blast booth at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Factory workers work on a steel wheel at International Harvester's Plano Works. Factory was later known as "West Pullman Works." |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Factory workers pouring hot metal? into a mold or wheel hub at International Harvester's Plano Works. The factory was later known as "West Pullman Works." |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Factory workers pouring metal into molds at International Harvester's Plano Works. The factory was later known as "West Pullman Works." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men working with hot metal in what appears to be a forge at the McCormick Reaper Works factory. |
| Date: | 12 20 1943 |
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| Description: | Men working in the sheet metal shop of the farm machinery engineering department of the International Harvester Company. The original caption reads: "Part ... |
| Date: | 07 22 1936 |
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| Description: | A factory worker at McCormick Works uses a hydraulic press to straighten malleable castings. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A man wearing protective gloves is shoveling metal pieces into a radiant tube clean hardening furnace at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 11 20 1925 |
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| Description: | Two factory workers use long-handled tongs to handle a long piece of heated metal at the McCormick Works factory. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A blind(?) man operates a piece of machinery behind a table in a display booth at the "blind veterans show." The booth is labeled "International Harvester'... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of International Harvester's Wisconsin Steel Works, with a river and Lake Michigan in the background. |
| Date: | 12 08 1937 |
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| Description: | Blooming mill at International Harvester's Wisconsin Steel Works. Original caption reads in part: "New Blooming Mill, Wisconsin Steel Works. Photo No. 2 --... |
| Date: | 12 08 1937 |
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| Description: | Blooming mill at International Harvester's Wisconsin Steel Works (factory). Original caption reads: "General view of a portion of the new Wisconsin Steel W... |
| Date: | 11 1960 |
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| Description: | Progress on a "new mill" at International Harvester's Wisconsin Steel Works (factory). |
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