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Child Worker Removing Twine from Machine - Safety Screen Added

Date: 1910
Description: Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico.
Photograph

Child Worker Removing Twine from Machine

Date: 1910
Description: Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico. Accompanying text reads: "No guard...
Photograph

IHC Industrial Safety Exhibit

Date: 1911
Description: Pictures and diagrams mounted on a wall in a "new building" at International Harvester's Deering Works. The display was part of an industrial exhibit and d...
Photograph

Workers Exposed to "Unguarded Belts" at Tractor Works

Date: 1929
Description: Workers operating machines at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The original caption reads: "Use of photograph questioned by Industrial Relations De...
Poster

Industrial Health Poster: Skin Diseases

Date: 1921
Description: Sign warning International Harvester factory workers against various types of skin diseases. The sign reads: "Skin Diseases; There are many different kinds...
Poster

Industrial Health Poster: Typhoid Fever

Date: 1921
Description: Sign warning International Harvester factory workers about about typhoid fever. The sign reads: "Typhoid Fever is Here; Here are a few facts about it: 1. T...
Poster

Industrial Health Poster: Tuberculosis

Date: 1921
Description: Sign warning International Harvester factory workers about tuberculosis. The sign reads: "Tuberculosis; There are hundreds of cases of tuberculosis in Chic...
Photograph

Safety Board at McCormick Works

Date: 1935
Description: Factory workers looking at safety posters on a bulletin board at the McCormick Works.

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