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Workers Celebrate War Production at McCormick Works

Date: 05 25 1944
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...
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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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Woman Polishing Torpedo at McCormick Works

Date: 06 08 1943
Description: A female factory worker wearing safety glasses uses what appears to be a piece of sandpaper to polish a torpedo part at International Harvester's McCormick...
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Workers Assemble Gun Carts at McCormick Works

Date: 05 06 1918
Description: Factory workers assembling artillery or "machine gun" carts for the United States military during World War I at International Harvester's McCormick Works.
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Experimental Military Tractor

Date: 1936
Description: Engineering photograph of an experimental McCormick-Deering tractor with wheel covers. The tractor was apparently designed for use by the U.S. military. Th...
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Scrap Drive Participants Outside IH Dealership

Date: 1942
Description: Two men involved in a scrap drive stand near the door of an International Harvester dealership. There are posters in the window. Next to the man on the rig...
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Woman with Torpedo at McCormick Works

Date: 1943
Description: A woman's face is visible through an opening in the after-body of an aircraft torpedo as she uses a tool to tap holes in it. The photograph was taken at In...
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Boxed Artillery Cart Ready for Shipment

Date: 05 17 1918
Description: Boxed 240 mm mortar cart ready for shipment to the U.S. military from International Harvester's McCormick Works. Includes a trench mortar barrel. A man is ...
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Woman Operating International A Tractor at Military Base

Date: 1942
Description: A woman uses an International Model A tractor to mow grass on the side of a hill at Camp Pendleton. In the background is an encampment of tents set up at t...
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Crowd Outside Deering(?) Works

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated view of hundreds of people, possibly factory workers, gathered to hear speeches outside International Harvester's Deering(?) Works. The event appe...
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Crated Machine Gun Cart at McCormick Works

Date: 05 17 1918
Description: Crated "U.S. Machine Gun Cart" outside in factory yard.
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Boy Scouts on Bicycles

Date: 1942
Description: WW II scrap metal drive. Scoutmaster Edward G. Shaw and his troop of boy scouts on bicycles and on a trailer loaded with scrap metal. The trailer is hitche...

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