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Photograph

Cream Separator Display

Date: 02 10 1933
Description: Model cream separator created for the "A Century of Progress" world's fair in Chicago.
Photograph

Man Carburizing Transmission Gears at Tractor Works

Date: 1943
Description: Factory worker at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Children on Makeshift Teeter Totter

Date: 1920
Description: Young boy and girl playing on a makeshift teeter totter made from a board and a section of a log. The children are likely playing near Sunnyside School.
Painting

Test of the First Reaper

Date: 1932
Description: Diorama(?) depicting the test of the first mechanical reaper by Cyrus McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The display was likely part of Intern...
Photograph

Farmall-12 Display

Date: 02 06 1932
Description: A Farmall-12 tractor sits on display underneath a string of banners, possibly at McCormick Works. A sign reading: "See This New Farmall" stands next to the...
Photograph

Factory Worker at McCormick Works

Date: 1902
Description: Factory worker operating a drill press or punch, probably at the McCormick Reaper Works. The worker is standing against a backdrop of canvas sheets and the...
Photograph

McCormick Works and Industrial Canal

Date: 1900
Description: View of factory buildings and smokestacks from across a river or industrial canal. The factory is probably the McCormick Reaper Works as seen from across t...
Photograph

4-H Club Parade Float

Date: 1930
Description: A group of young women at an International Harvester factory (most likely McCormick Works) ride on a parade float reading "Welcome 4-H Club Champions, Inte...
Photograph

250,000th IH Mower Over "Progressive Assembly Chain"

Date: 1930
Description: A group of factory workers poses for a photograph on the occasion of the 250,000th mower produced between 1926 and 1930, possibly at McCormick Works in Chi...
Photograph

Man Sitting on a Milwaukee Grain Binder

Date: 02 29 1906
Description: A man is sitting on what appears to be a horse-drawn Milwaukee grain binder. The man is dressed in dark pants, a dark vest and tie, a light-colored shirt, ...
Photograph

Binder Twine Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Male and female factory workers wear protective hair bonnets while working in a room where twine is wound, weighed, and inspected. The workers stand in a r...

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