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Workers Load Stubble Pulverizers at IHC McCormick Works

Date: 03 21 1927
Description: Workers loading new folding stubble pulverizers onto railroad cars at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Har...
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Workers Load Tractors for Shipment at IHC Tractor Works

Date: 04 12 1923
Description: Workers lowering McCormick-Deering 10-20 HP tractors onto railroad cars for shipment using an overhead crane at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Workers Load Tractors onto Railroad Cars at IHC Tractor Works

Date: 1930
Description: Workers using an overhead crane to load new McCormick-Deering tractors (including the 10-20 and possibly the I-20) onto railroad cars outside International...
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Tractor Works' Foreign Shipping Room

Date: 06 20 1935
Description: Elevated view of new McCormick-Deering T-40 TracTracTors (crawler tractors) await transfer in the foreign shipping room at International Harvester's Tracto...
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Early Experimental IHC Tractor

Date: 06 21 1911
Description: Man sitting on an experimental lightweight tractor. The photograph was probably taken outside International Harvester's McCormick Works. Original caption i...
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Workers Load Wagon Components onto Railroad Car

Date: 04 17 1918
Description: Workers loading wooden crates containing components for wagons or possibly "machine gun carts" onto railroad cars at International Harvester's McCormick Wo...
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Rake Wheels on McCormick Works Shipping Platform

Date: 1900
Description: Two workers among hundreds of hay rake wheels stacked on a shipping platform next to rail cars at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the ...
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McCormick Reaper Works Wood Stock Yard

Date: 1900
Description: Workers loading and unloading wood at the wood stock yard of the McCormick Reaper Works. Men are working on both sides of the Chicago River. Rail cars and ...
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Men Moving Barrows Filled with Coal

Date: 02 09 1906
Description: Men moving barrows filled with coal outdoors at McCormick Works.
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100,000th Farmall Celebration

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view over crowd of people towards a man standing on a platform, possibly Cyrus McCormick III. He is speaking to a large group of people gathered o...
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McCormick Reaper Works Factory and Rail Yard

Date: 1900
Description: Southwest panorama of the McCormick Reaper Works factory and rail yard as seen across a canal. Workers can be seen unloading wood.
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Industrial Tractor with Front Mechanism

Date: 06 17 1927
Description: A man is driving a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor with front mechanism near the loading dock. In the background is a caboose on railroad tracks.
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Reaper in Stages of Disassembly

Date: 06 30 1906
Description: View towards a reaper in stages of disassembly, with activity in courtyard behind, at McCormick Works. Three men are working on a machine in the background...
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Loading Dock at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: View down covered loading dock at McCormick Works. Men are loading or unloading machinery parts and are standing near railroad cars. Parts are lined up alo...
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McCormick Works Railroad Yard

Date: 09 09 1912
Description: Elevated view of a man standing near railroad cars which appear to be loaded with coal and ore inside IHC's McCormick Works railroad yard. Other men are wo...
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Hay Stacker at McCormick Works

Date: 05 06 1910
Description: Hay Stacker outdoors in the yard at McCormick Works. In the background is a small, wooden sided building. In the background two men are working on the left...
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Mower Outdoors in Yard at McCormick Works

Date: 08 06 1914
Description: Man riding a McCormick Mower in the factory yard. He is demonstrating the raising of the blade. In the background railroad cars are on an elevated platform...
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Hay Stackers on Loading Dock

Date: 04 13 1908
Description: Hay stackers crated for delivery sitting on a loading dock at McCormick Works. There is a light-colored backdrop set up in the background. A man is standin...
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Sweep Rake

Date: 05 06 1910
Description: Sweep Rake outdoors in the yard at McCormick Works. In the background is a small, wooden sided building. In the background a man is working on the left nea...
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Detail of Milwaukee Binder at McCormick Works

Date: 09 08 1917
Description: Close-up of a man (head out of frame) working on a Binder outdoors in factory yard. In the background are railroad cars on an elevated railroad platform.

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