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McCormick Works(?) Machine Shop
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Rows of belt-driven machines inside the "automatic screw machine shop" at International Harvester's McCormick Works(?). According to the original caption: "all small finished steel parts, such as set screws, studs, pins, small shafts, etc., are turned on automatic machines, which insures absolute uniformity and exact size in every particular."
International Harvester Company
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McCormick Works Machine Shop
1900
Workers operating belt-driven machinery in a machine shop at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine company before 1902. In 1902 it became the McCormi...
McCormick Works Machine Shop
1900
Workers machining parts with belt-driven lathes, presses, and other machinery in a machine shop at McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine company before 1...
Annex to McCormick Works Blacksmith Shop
1900
Men and boys working with steel rods and belt-driven machinery to make bolts inside an annex to the blacksmith shop at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting ...
Filling and Labeling Machine
1939
An factory worker at McCormick Works uses an automatic filling and labeling machine.
Experimental Department at Tractor Works
March 10, 1949
Factory workers in the machine shop experimental department at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
Automatic Screw Machines
1960
Rows of Automatic Screw Machines on factory floor. Stamped on machine: "Cone Automatic Machine Co. Inc. Windor. Vermont, U.S.A."
