International Harvester Company

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DescriptionInternational Harvester Building, on the corner of South Broadway and First Avenue South. The Yellowstone Paper Company would later occupy the building. The Boys Club occupied this building from about 1971 to 1985 until the opening of the Boys and Girls Club of Yellowstone County facility at 505 Orchard Lane in 1985. RC Battey was the branch manager of International Harvester in 1927 (he started in 1917). For photographs of staff in 1927, See 'RC Battey Invites Public to Visit New Building, $125,000 Home of Billings Branch is Opening Saturday', Billings Gazette, November 19, 1927. J.P. Morgan founded International Harvester Company in 1902 when he merged Deering Harvester Company, Plano Manufacturing Company, and the Champion Line and Milwaukee Harvester Company. In 1986, Harvester changed the corporate name to Navistar International Corporation.TypeImageCreatorUnknownGenrephotographsDate1930SubjectWarehousesArchitecture--1900-1930Contributing InstitutionBillings Public LibraryGeographic CoverageBillings, MontanaDigital CollectionBillings - Images of PlacesDigital Formatimage/jpgDigitization SpecificationEpson 1640 XL scanner. 8 x 10 image at 300 dpi, 8 bit greyscale. Master Image size - 18,000 kb.Date Digitized2015copyrightNoC-US

CollectionBillings - Images of Places

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