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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Man lounging against a full bookcase in an office area at McCormick Works in Chicago. A second man can just be seen behind the bookcase. A large dark room ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Chairs and tables are arranged throughout a room, possibly a factory lounge or break room, probably in the McCormick Reaper Works. A spinning wheel is in t... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior view of office, looking towards open office door. Painted on the door: "McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., A.I. Dourgherty, Gen. Ag't." |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Brochure front and back cover. The front features a color illustration of a woman holding a large book with plates of agricultural machines. "Manufactured ... |
| 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: | 05 05 1905 |
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| Description: | Interior view, from another room or hallway, of the meeting room. Chairs, tables, and what is probably a newspaper rack are in the room. There is a spittoo... |
| Date: | 03 21 1901 |
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| Description: | Supper menu from the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company, Bremen, with an illustration of people on the top d... |
| Date: | 05 02 1902 |
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| Description: | Front cover and first two pages of the menu and program for a dinner honoring newspaperman Opie Read. There is a tipped-in drawing of Read on the cover, dr... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | William Elwell Middleton stands beside the giant candy cane which he won on Christmas Day, 1909. There is a bookcase in the background. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Cover of the book The Pinkerton Labor Spy by Morris Friedman. The book was a work of non-fiction detailing the use of spies during labor disputes b... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of mother (Lucy Rumsey Holt) and daughter (Eleanor Holt). Looking up, Eleanor Holt appears to be asking her mother to read her a story. T... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | View of the big fireplace ablaze at Island Lodge on Archibald Lake, with screen and andirons. There are various handmade wooden objects on the mantel. On t... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Two women and three girls posing in front of the Hotel on the Hill. Blanche Richter is seated at left and holds a cat on her lap. The woman standing next t... |
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