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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Advertising folder for Deering 10-20 and 15-30 tractors, showing an Arab man in the foreground and tractors at work in the background. Printed for Algiers,... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster with inset color illustrations showing Deering brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes. Includes an illustration of four old... |
| Date: | 09 1908 |
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| Description: | View of worker with a grey beard and hat standing and posing in front of a furnace inside IHC McCormick Works foundry. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery. |
| Date: | 09 1908 |
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| Description: | Factory worker sawing a large piece of lumber at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as "Auburn Works"). The belt-driven machinery is alon... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | French lithographed advertising poster featuring a color illustration of two horses pulling a man on a mower. Text on the poster includes "R. Wallut and C.... |
| Date: | 01 04 1927 |
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| Description: | A man drives a Deering tractor, while two women stand near a residential building in the background. The man and women wear what appears to be traditional ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three men posing with a piece of McCormick agricultural machinery, possibly a sickle bar mower (?). The writing on the machine reads, "McCormick H.M. Co. H... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men are sitting and standing around a McCormick mower, while a man wearing a suit and hat is standing to the left writing on a slip of paper, possibly a re... |
| Date: | 04 1929 |
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| Description: | Professor Perry G. Holden (right) and George W. Anstrand sitting behind a desk and looking at papers. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval studio portrait of Charles B. Withington, the inventor of the first practical wire binder. Withington was born in Akron, Ohio in 1830, ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A factory worker wearing work clothes and an apron stands with his arm on his hip at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works).... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An elderly factory worker is standing in front of large stacked pile of wood at International Harvester's Osborne Works. There are two handwritten notes on... |
| Date: | 07 30 1913 |
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| Description: | An elderly factory worker dressed in pants, a striped shirt, suspenders and a hat is posing with a large push cart at International Harvester's Osborne Wor... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Cook in the kitchen cutting a roast. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Two men are laying bricks during the construction of the Eau Claire Public Library at Farwell Street and Grand Avenue. A third man, at left, wearing a hat ... |
| Date: | 10 20 1908 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of an employee standing inside a factory. He is holding a cane in his right hand, and is wearing a coat and hat. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Two men holding trowels are standing on an improvised scaffold made of wooden kegs and planks while working on a cement block foundation wall. Two other me... |
| Date: | 09 05 1912 |
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| Description: | Elderly man standing and posing beside stacks of parts molds. |
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