![]() On the very right is the beginning of the 8-track bridges. Near the south (right) side, the steel bridges over 31st St. The railroad going side to side, between the red and yellow, is the NORTH/SOUTH running "Panhandle Line" (and others). I think the postcard is looking Northeast from above California Ave. It can be compared with the 1929 USGS Englewood Quad ( ). ![]() THE POSTCARD is great, but it's all at angles. All gone todayĪssociation for Great Lakes Maritime History postedĬhicagoHistory has an interactive picture of the works.Ī video advertising their complete line of tractors. at the time of the photo).ĭavid Daruszka McCormick Reaper Works in the background. Historical Photo of the Week: Workers prepare to raise a sunken tug boat out of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal on July 12, 1922, viewed looking roughly northwest from an area near Damen Ave. The McCormick Reaper Works, 26th and Oakley, 1928, Chicago I don't think the workers used this entrance? Photo dated 1926 McCormick Works at Western and Blue Island. McCormick - International Harvester, Wisconsin Historical Society, Image ID: 45297 McCormick Works (Blue Island & Western) photographed from the opposite bank of the Chicago River, 1914. Twine mill with shipping platform at the McCormick Reaper Works, just after construction.įarmall Tractors and Tanks during World War II at the Tractor Works, 2600 West 31st Street.McCormick Reaper Works factory and rail yard as seen across a canal.Quitting Time at McCormick Reaper Works.Paul posted three more pictures to Forgotten Chicago. ![]() And I think it is after 1915 because the building on the left appears to be the new one mentioned above. I think the stretch of water in the photo is the South Branch rather than the canal. The factory was located at Blue Island and Western Avenues in the Chicago subdivision called "Canalport." It was closed in 1961.ĭarla Zailskas in another posting of this picture commented that it was "circa 1900." In 1902 it became the McCormick Works of the International Harvester Company. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine company before 1902. Southeast panorama of the McCormick Reaper Works, rail yard and canal. ![]()
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