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Ambulance Personnel Loading Person into International Ambulance

Date: 03 23 1929
Description: City of Chicago ambulance personnel are loading a person involved in an accident into an International ambulance as a small group of people are looking on....
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Elevated View of Rally

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Description: Elevated view of a rally of employees for liberty loan campaign. The factory yard is crowded with people, and other people are sitting on the elevated rail...
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People, Cars and Trucks at McCormick Works

Date: 10 03 1927
Description: Elevated view over railroad tracks towards people, cars, and trucks outdoors in the yard in front of McCormick Works.
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Canadian Steamship at McCormick Works

Date: 04 30 1927
Description: Elevated view of people along the dock near a Canada Steamship Lines ship.
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Women at West Pullman Works

Date: 1942
Description: Female factory workers sit at machines at West Pullman Works, while another person is standing in the background.
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Tractor Works Office

Date: 1950
Description: A woman at International Harvester's Tractor Works is looking through a filing cabinet or a card catalog. Other people are working in the background.
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Tickertape Parade in City

Date: 1920
Description: Tickertape parade in a city. There appear to be people standing on the edge of the roof of the building in the center, standing near the base of a flagpole...
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Corn Binder Disassembled and Banded for Shipping

Date: 04 14 1914
Description: Corn Binder disassembled and banded for shipping outdoors on a loading dock at McCormick Works. People are standing at the windows of the factory in the ba...
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Doctor's Office

Date: 11 04 1914
Description: Three men and a woman are treating a man in a doctor's office. Seen through an open doorway behind them are other people sitting in a room in the backgroun...
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Balloon at National Air Show

Date: 1930
Description: A balloon sits in a field at the National Air Show, held at Curtiss-Reynolds Airport. Two people stand near an automobile on the left, and on the right nea...
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Tractor Powering Threshing Operation

Date: 10 04 1906
Description: A group of people are posing on a farm where a tractor is powering a thresher. Men and boys are standing on and near a horse-drawn wagon and a corn elevato...
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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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Agrisphere at the Museum of Science and Industry

Date: 06 1975
Description: People watching a program in the "Agrisphere," an 80-capacity theater in a 40-foot-high geodesic dome in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry paid fo...
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Registration and Information Booth at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 06 30 1933
Description: People standing around the International Harvester information and registration booth at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair. The sign attached to the...
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Men on Tractor Shoe Chain Assembly

Date: 1942
Description: Factory workers assemble "shoe chains" on an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor) at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Worker at Tractor Works

Date: 1942
Description: Factory worker at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Man Hardening Tractor Parts in Furnace

Date: 1942
Description: Factory worker hardens tractor parts in "one of a battery of gas-fired box type heat treating furnaces."
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International Model R-185 Truck

Date: 03 04 1960
Description: Harold Greenlee (right) and B.J. McCarthy examining a recently-delivered International model R-185 truck. Mr. Greenlee was the transportation superintenden...
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Worker Hardening Links in Furnace

Date: 1942
Description: Factory worker hardening links for crawler tractors at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Men Painting Crawler Tractors at Tractor Works

Date: 1943
Description: Factory workers painting crawler tractors (TracTracTors) at International Harvester's Tractor Works.

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