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| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Older factory worker standing among stacks of molds for casting parts. The man most likely worked at International Harvester's Osborne Works. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Cook in the kitchen cutting a roast. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | William Deering (1826-1913), founder of the Deering Harvester Company. In 1902 the Deering company became part of the International Harvester Company. |
| Date: | 09 1908 |
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| Description: | View of worker with a grey beard and hat standing and posing in front of a furnace inside IHC McCormick Works foundry. |
| Date: | 09 1908 |
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| Description: | Factory worker sawing a large piece of lumber at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as "Auburn Works"). The belt-driven machinery is alon... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men are standing next to a wooden structure, probably a pump house for an irrigation system. Water is streaming from the structure into a channel while the... |
| Date: | 10 20 1908 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of an employee standing inside a factory. He is holding a cane in his right hand, and is wearing a coat and hat. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | French lithographed advertising poster featuring a color illustration of two horses pulling a man on a mower. Text on the poster includes "R. Wallut and C.... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Features an illustration of a man gesturing across a large empty space (possibly water) towards a factory operating at night. The same man is looking at a... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Cover of catalog with a color illustration of a man wearing boots and holding a hat writing in a large book. The text reads: "Twentieth Century Fame, the F... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man wearing a straw hat and eyeglasses, holding a miniature agricultural implement in his hand. Text reads: "T... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne & Co. harvesting machines showing three old men. Two of the men appear to be listening to the third man. I... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of men posing in a wooded area among liquor bottles that have been emptied into the snow, the result of a raid on a saloon in the town of Polar which... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval studio portrait of Charles B. Withington, the inventor of the first practical wire binder. Withington was born in Akron, Ohio in 1830, ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Chris Borg (1859-1945), superintendent of International Harvester's Deering Works. Mr. Borg started as a metal patternmaker in the Deering Harv... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three men posing with a piece of McCormick agricultural machinery, possibly a sickle bar mower (?). The writing on the machine reads, "McCormick H.M. Co. H... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of Joseph Mabbett Allcott, proprietor of J.M. Allcott & Co. drug store in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Two men are laying bricks during the construction of the Eau Claire Public Library at Farwell Street and Grand Avenue. A third man, at left, wearing a hat ... |
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