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| Date: | 05 25 1944 |
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| Description: | Group of McCormick Works employees holding up Army-Navy "E" banner with torpedo in foreground. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in 1873 and... |
| Date: | 11 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Twenty-five members of the "Negro Farmers of America" tour a crawler tractor (TracTracTor) assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The fa... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men loading hundreds of new Farmall B, Farmall A and International crawler tractors (TracTracTors) onto railroad cars with a crane outside... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Workers assembling crawler tractor (TracTractor) frames at the beginning of an assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The factory was lo... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Female worker inspecting small plastic and metal parts at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Female worker using a drill press in a window display at International Harvester's employment office in the company's Michigan Avenue annex. The display ce... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Two women inspect a drill press at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "Dust prevention and cleanliness is so important as a factor... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Male and female workers producing torpedo parts at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "A battery of acetylene torches is here show... |
| Date: | 05 28 1943 |
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| Description: | Female factory worker winds a motor in the electrical shop at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 11 11 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers forge a tractor crankshaft with an Erie press at International Harvester's Tractor Works. Original caption reads: "Crankshaft as it appears... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at International Harvester's West Pullman Works inspecting 37-millimeter shells. |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers inspect ball bearings at an International Harvester factory. The factory produced aerial torpedoes for the U.S. Military. |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Female workers assembling torpedoes for the U.S. Military at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "This large group of women employe... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Woman working on a midget mill that cuts spiral grooves and moves at a rate of about 3500 r.p.m. The woman operating this machine was a former drill press ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | International D-30 truck with a silver streamlined armored body built for Brinks, Inc. A man is sitting the driver's seat. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Four women butcher workers in white lab coats hand tie sausage links at the Oscar Mayer plant. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Men and women working on the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Unionized slaughterhouse workers of the P. Brennan Company of Chicago. |
| Date: | 12 20 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working at machines in an International Harvester engineering shop. The original caption reads: "Scene from International Harvester Co... |
| Date: | 12 20 1943 |
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| Description: | Research engineer A.B. Welty stands next to the moisture controlling device at International Harvester Company's farm machinery engineering department. The... |
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