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| Date: | 02 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Mechanic punching a ticket at a time clock for a service job at one of International Harvester's motor truck branch service stations. A poster warning of t... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A man demonstrates the farm hazard of chopping wood. |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Two women using McCormick-Deering relief tractors in a field damaged by the "tri-state tornado." The tractors appear to be 10-20s. |
| Date: | 04 01 1925 |
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| Description: | A man using a McCormick-Deering relief tractor to work in a field affected by the "tri-state tornado." The tractor appears to be a 10-20. |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | A man sitting on a McCormick-Deering tractor in a field. Buildings damaged by the "tri-state tornado" are in the background. The tractor appears to be a 1... |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Boys using hand tools to work in a field. A mule-drawn wagon is in the background. They are all wearing hats and overalls. |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A farmer is standing on the edge of a wooden wagon pitching hay into a running thresher, demonstrating an unsafe operating position. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | John Esch, sitting behind the wheel of an automobile, adjusting his eyeglasses while smoking a tobacco pipe. Photograph taken for International Harvester's... |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man driving a team of four horses while standing on the front standard of a wagon loaded with what appears to be hay. Photograph taken for International ... |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A man holding a metal instrument approaching a tree stump to inspect why a dynamite blast did not go off. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man unhitches horses from a wagon. Photograph taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Department to illustrate the dangers of leaving one tug un... |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is reaching into the moving packer arms of a grain binder, while another man is driving a team of horses pulling the machinery across a field at the ... |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is reaching in between reels on a grain binder hitched to several horses on the farm of Peter Ricker. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Two children are walking closely behind a man operating a grain binder pulled by a team of four horses through a field, illustrating the dangers of standin... |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is climbing on a moving harvester-thresher (combine), illustrating an agricultural hazard for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Depart... |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A man removing shotgun shells from a firearm before placing it in storage at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men holding pitchforks stand near the edge of a horse-drawn wagon piled with hay. |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A man reaching for loose matches carried in his pocket while holding a tobacco pipe in his other hand. The photograph was taken on International Harvester'... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A woman sitting at a kitchen table wearing a visor, leaning over a book while a lit oil lamp is nearby. Also on the table are a newspaper, additional books... |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is kneeling on the ground beside a mower hitched to two horses while performing repairs. An agricultural tool is lying on the ground beside him. |
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