Farmall factory

[Smalltowner]

A tractor club friend sent me this. We don’t know the year it was taken. My father served in Italy in WW2 and said the army used a lot of these International crawlers.
Anyway it’s an interesting old photo.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

A tractor club friend sent me this. We don’t know the year it was taken. My father served in Italy in WW2 and said the army used a lot of these International crawlers.
Anyway it’s an interesting old photo.

That photo was taken at Tractor Works in South Side Chicago Heart of Italy neighborhood, in 1941. This was on the west side of the plant. The Cook County courthouse is in the top left of the pic.

Mike

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

If the map link works, you should see where it was, penned in by California Ave. (W), 26th St. (N), 31st Blvd. (S) & the Pennsy's Air Line Route up to Union Station (E). I'll see if I can get a period aerial posted after supper.

Mike

Might be S Chicago??.....

 

[EFV]

Cook County Courthouse ? that's where they pay the taxes,right ?

 

[grandpa Love]

A tractor club friend sent me this. We don’t know the year it was taken. My father served in Italy in WW2 and said the army used a lot of these International crawlers.
Anyway it’s an interesting old photo.

I wonder if my B is in that picture?

 

[560Dennis]

A lot of activities in that photo.

 

[Rich'sToys]

I wonder if my B is in that picture?

Which one??

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Cook County Courthouse ? that's where they pay the taxes,right ?

Allegedly.

Mike

 

[DoubleO7]

WisHistory

www.wisconsinhistory.org

Original photo caption was:

"Machines for use in the peacetime or wartime production of food and military activity. On the long line of flat cars on the left are Farmall tractors destined for food production. Lined up parallel on flat cars at the right is a long line of crawler-type tractors destined for the army to be used in military field operations. Thus is illustrated the dual services of the Harvester Company in this period-production for food and defense."

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

In what little I could find on break....

First off.... my free ginormous not watermarked aerials are not available at this time so.... I'll have to make due.

Or I forgot what site they're on?

Second, the (disgustingly) small aerial below is from 1938. There was a lot of war time expansion on the tractor plant, as well as the adjacent Chicago hoosegow/courthouse complex not yet shown here.

(Extra photos added for extra amusement.)

The 1 spot in the photo is roughly where the photo in the original post was taken.

The #2 area is the soon to be expanded courthouse/prison.

Spot 3 is the Pennsylvania RR 8 track rolling bascule bridge; of interest here as a really cool landmark. There are a couple pics included below.

Spot 4 is roughly where they stiff legged the delivery truck out of the drink in the pics below.

The 5's cover where the West Branch of the Sanitary Canal was filled in. (A couple fire map clips are below to illustrate this a bit better.)

No. 6 is the remnants of the branch. You can still see a notch in the Canal today, where that branch started.

No. 7 is the lumber storage yard for the McCormick Reaper Works.

No. 8 is the Reaper Works which was the anchor factory in that area before the Great Chicago Fire. Before that, it was near the lakefront.

The 9 spot was thrown in at the last minute to show where the famous arched-front building is in the pics below with the Tractor Works in the background.

If anyone is interested.... or seeeeeeriously bored.... I can further "illustrate" the area.

Mike

 

[Turkeyfoot]

In what little I could find on break....

First off.... my free ginormous not watermarked aerials are not available at this time so.... I'll have to make due.

Or I forgot what site they're on?

Second, the (disgustingly) small aerial below is from 1938. There was a lot of war time expansion on the tractor plant, as well as the adjacent Chicago hoosegow/courthouse complex not yet shown here.

(Extra photos added for extra amusement.)

The 1 spot in the photo is roughly where the photo in the original post was taken.

The #2 area is the soon to be expanded courthouse/prison.

Spot 3 is the Pennsylvania RR 8 track rolling bascule bridge; of interest here as a really cool landmark. There are a couple pics included below.

Spot 4 is roughly where they stiff legged the delivery truck out of the drink in the pics below.

The 5's cover where the West Branch of the Sanitary Canal was filled in. (A couple fire map clips are below to illustrate this a bit better.)

No. 6 is the remnants of the branch. You can still see a notch in the Canal today, where that branch started.

No. 7 is the lumber storage yard for the McCormick Reaper Works.

No. 8 is the Reaper Works which was the anchor factory in that area before the Great Chicago Fire. Before that, it was near the lakefront.

The 9 spot was thrown in at the last minute to show where the famous arched-front building is in the pics below with the Tractor Works in the background.

If anyone is interested.... or seeeeeeriously bored.... I can further "illustrate" the area.

Mike

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You can see why Carl Sandburg called it "the city of big shoulders."

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

You can see why Carl Sandburg called it "the city of big shoulders."

Very big!

Mike

 

[Smalltowner]

WisHistory

www.wisconsinhistory.org

Original photo caption was:

"Machines for use in the peacetime or wartime production of food and military activity. On the long line of flat cars on the left are Farmall tractors destined for food production. Lined up parallel on flat cars at the right is a long line of crawler-type tractors destined for the army to be used in military field operations. Thus is illustrated the dual services of the Harvester Company in this period-production for food and defense."

Good research double007

 

[300jk]

A tractor club friend sent me this. We don’t know the year it was taken. My father served in Italy in WW2 and said the army used a lot of these International crawlers.
Anyway it’s an interesting old photo.

We have an A, Super W-4, an I-6, and a 300 rc. Used to have an H but I sold it. That is an amazing picture. The US in full swing. Hope saying that is allowed. But it was quite a time in history !

 

[used red MN]

We have an A, Super W-4, an I-6, and a 300 rc. Used to have an H but I sold it. That is an amazing picture. The US in full swing. Hope saying that is allowed. But it was quite a time in history !

Nothing political about that, its a fact of history.

 

[rustred]

Never know around here, I stated a farming fact and got thrown in jail. Someone else can interpret a post differently.

 

[Dave BN]

The original post shows Farmall BN's so it's at least 1940.
Dave