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| Date: | 04 24 1948 |
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| Description: | "Inter-City Fun Fest" dance sponsored by the Amalgamated Lithographers of America. Chicago's Mrs. Peggy Schabert dances with Mr. Gil Naps, Milwaukee. |
| 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 1949 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the North Town Apothecary. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | International Harvester Building looking north on Michigan Avenue. |
| 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: | 11 02 1948 |
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| Description: | WENR in Chicago broadcasts the first live national television presidential election returns when Truman upset Dewey. |
| 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: | 05 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Engineering photograph of an experimental International 20 m.p.h. transport speed tractor with highway mower. The tractor appears to be equipped with Inter... |
| Date: | 04 20 1941 |
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| Description: | Engineering photograph of an International ID-9 tractor designed for the U.S. Army under "contract no. 41-11169 (Ind-318)." |
| Date: | 12 10 1940 |
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| Description: | Engineering left side view of a McCormick-Deering Farmall M high clearance (high crop) tractor with cane attachment. |
| 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: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Workers setting type inside the Harvester Press typesetting room. |
| Date: | 08 13 1941 |
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| Description: | Engineering photograph of an International I-4 tractor made in Chicago, Illinois for the United States government. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Man loading coal from an overhead bin into an International K-6 dump truck owned by South Chicago Coal and Dock Company. The slogan "coal stoker heat is be... |
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