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Riders on an Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle
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Two riders on an early Excelsior-Henderson motorcycle near a community garden at Harrison and Jefferson streets in Chicago. An International Harvester tractor is cultivating the soil in the background. The men on the motorcycle were the garden inspector and his assistant. The Excelsior-Henderson motorcycle was manufactured in Chicago until it went out of production in 1931.
April 9, 1917
International Harvester Company
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