International Harvester Company Magazines and Newsletters, 1909-1984

Contents List

Container Title
McCormick Mss 9Z
Part 1 (McCormick Mss 9Z): Original Collection, 1909-1977
Physical Description: 13.0 c.f. (28 archives boxes, 1 record center carton, and 9 index card boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Magazines and newsletters produced by the International Harvester Company for distribution to its dealerships, customers and employees. Titles include Canadian Tractor Farming, IH Farm, Farm Forum, IH Today, General Office, Harvester World, International Trail, Maintenance News, Tractor Farming, and Triple Diamond Club. The publications feature the company's agricultural equipment, motor truck, refrigeration and construction equipment product lines. Many of the publications are in bound volumes. Included are indexes to Harvester World (1946-1970) and International Trail (1955-1977).
Box   1
Canadian Tractor Farming, 1919-1941
Box   18
General Office, 1947 March, May
Harvester World subject index, 1946-1970
Note: Title: International Harvester World, after 1963
Box   30
A-Containers
Box   31
Contests-Exhibits
Box   32
Detroit-Hough
Box   33
Housing-Part Time
Box   34
Parts-Styling
Box   35
Stockton-Trade
Box   36
Trademarks-Zoos
Harvester World name index
Box   37
A-Ma
Box   38
Mc-Z
Harvester World magazine
Box   3
1909-1914
Box   4
1915-1919
Box   5
1920-1926
Box   6
1927-1932
Box   7
1933-1940
Box   8
1941-1946
Box   9
1947-1951
Box   10
1952-1954
Box   11
1955-1960
Box   12
1961-1963
Box   13
1964-1966
Box   14
1967-1970
Box   2
IH Farm Forum, 1974-1984
International Harvester Today
Box   19
1949-1957
Box   20
1958-1962
Box   21
1963-1968
International Trail
Box   15
1950-1959
Box   16
1960-1969
Box   17
1970-1977
Box   18
Maintenance News, 1958-1963
Box   18
Triple Diamond Club, 1962-1969 (incomplete)
U.S. Tractor Farming index, 1920-1939
Note: Title: Tractor Farming, 1945-1963; Farm, 1963-1974.
Box   22
A-I
Box   23
J-Z
U.S. Tractor Farming Standard and Regional Editions, 1920-1939
Note: Title: Tractor Farming, 1945-1963; Farm, 1963-1974.
Box   24
1919-1930
Box   25
1926-1928, 1945-1952
Box   26
1953-1962
Box   27
1963-1966
Box   28
1967-1970
Box   29
1971-1974
M2001-127
Part 2 (M2001-127): Additions, 1909-1976
Physical Description: 9.8 c.f. (22 archives boxes and 1 record center carton) 
Scope and Content Note: Bound volumes of magazines and newsletters produced by the International Harvester Company and its factories for distribution to its dealerships, customers and employees. Titles include International Harvester Today, Harvester World, International Trail, Plant Magazine, Horizons, Dealer News, Store Technics, West Pullman Works newsletters, Tower Talk, the Payloader, and Yuletide. The publications feature the company's agricultural equipment, motor truck, refrigeration and construction equipment product lines.
Harvester World
Box   1
1909-1914
Box   2
1915-1919
Box   3
1920-1924
Box   4
1925-1930
Box   5
1931-1938
Box   6
1939-1943
Box   7
1943-1948
Box   8
1949-1955
Box   9
1955-1962
Box   10
1963-1969
International Trail
Box   11
1927-1935, 1937-1939
Box   12
1940-1942, 1950-1957
Box   13
1958-1967
Box   14
1968-1975
Box   15
1956-1976
Horizons
Box   16
English edition, 1949-1963
Box   16
French, Spanish and Portuguese editions, 1952-1955
Box   17
French, Spanish and Portuguese editions, 1956-1963
Plant Magazine
Box   17
1945-1948
Box   18
1947-1949
Dealer News
Box   18
1946-1948
Box   19
1949-1951
Box   19
Store Technics, 1945 June-July
Box   19
Harvester Newsletters, 1942 August-1946 March
Box   20
West Pullman Works newsletters, undated
Box   20
The Main Wheel (Deering Works), 1920
Box   20
Monthly Engine Bulletin, 1913 July-1916 October
International Harvester Today
Box   21
1949-1958
Box   22
1959-1968
Box   23
IHC News (Fort Wayne Plant), 1963-1967
Box   23
Tower Talk (Fort Wayne Plant), 1973-1976
Box   23
The Payloader (Frank G. Hough Company), undated
Box   23
Yuletide, 1946 December
M2007-106
Part 3 (M2007-106): Additions, 1915-1984
Physical Description: 2.8 c.f. (7 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note

Magazines and newsletters produced by the International Harvester Company and its factories for distribution to its dealerships, customers and employees. Titles include Triple Diamond Club, International Motor Truck Bulletin, Men of Action, International Truck Action, Hinsdale News, Milwaukee Works Reporter, West Pullman Works Review, Coal Mines Benham, International Harvester of Australia, and others.

The publications feature the company's agricultural equipment, motor truck, and construction equipment product lines. Titles are arranged alphabetically by division and plant, or alphabetically by country of publication if published outside the United States. The divisions represented are Agricultural Equipment Group, Construction, Corporate, Dealer and Distribution (including Regional and Truck division publications), Farm Equipment Research and Engineering Center, Science and Engineering and Wisconsin Steel. The plants represented are East Moline, Farmall, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Louisville, Melrose Park, Milwaukee, Rock Falls, Springfield, Tractor, and West Pullman Works. In addition there are miscellaneous company-wide IH publications, and publications from Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Within divisions and countries, the magazines are arranged by date.

Included in this accession are many examples of IH's experiment with a “plant” magazine. Postwar company growth, and the growing desire to craft a unified company-wide corporate identity, made investment in company magazines ever more desirable to International Harvester. These “plant” magazines, printed between 1946 and early 1949, were produced shortly after the company created a company magazine section in the consumer relations department. In order to insure standardized quality of editorial content, the “plant” magazines that sprung from this initiative often contained (nearly) identical covers, photographs, and articles, alongside local content. These magazines are indicated with the word [plant] in brackets after the titles.

Most of the publications here are intended for employees, but some were obviously created and distributed with a more general audience in mind. These magazines are indicated with the word [external] after their titles.

Most of the publications within this accession are incomplete runs. For a more detailed listing of which issues are available in this accession, see the Index of Titles and Issues in M2007-106.

Domestic Division and Plant
Agricultural Equipment Group
Box   1
Folder   1
Ag People, 1978/1979
Box   1
Folder   2
International Focus (English and Spanish versions), 1980?
Box   1
Folder   3
World News, 1980
Construction
Box   1
Folder   4
Big Red Review, 1957
Box   1
Folder   5
Paynews, 1974-1976
Box   1
Folder   6
The International Distributor, 1979
Corporate
Box   1
Folder   7
G.O. (General Office) [plant], 1947-1949
Box   1
Folder   8
Harvester Press Talk, 1947 September
Box   1
Folder   9
Organization Changes, 1957-1959
Box   1
Folder   10
G.O. Newsletter, 1966
Box   1
Folder   11
Public Affairs Newsletter, 1975
Box   1
Folder   12
International Harvester Action, 1977-1979
Box   1
Folder   13
Photographic Center Newsletter, 1978-1979
Dealer and Distribution
Box   1
Folder   14
Store Technics, 1943-1945
Box   1
Folder   15
Sales News, 1949 February
Box   1
Folder   16
Dealer News, 1954
Box   1
Folder   17
Power Facts: IH Engine Newsletter, 1970
Regional
Box   1
Folder   18
Allied News (California), 1958
Note: Not International Harvester.
Box   1
Folder   19
Sales Action (Central), 1967
Box   1
Folder   20
Spotlighting The New Columbus Region, 1972
Box   1
Folder   21
The Marketeer (Northeast), 1974-1980
Box   1
Folder   22
Harvester Happenings (Quad City), 1978-1980
Box   1
Folder   23
North Stars News (Northwest), 1978
Truck
Box   2
Folder   1
The International Motor Truck Bulletin, 1915-1918
Box   2
Folder   1
The International Bulletin, 1919-1920
Box   2
Folder   2-4
International Triple Diamond, 1928-1936
Box   2
Folder   5
Triple Diamond Club, 1956-1958
Box   2
Folder   6
Men of Action Magazine, 1960-1961
Box   2
Folder   7
International Truck Action, 1971
Box   3
Folder   1
International Intercom, 1972-1980
East Moline
Box   3
Folder   2
East Moline Pick it-Thresh it [plant], 1947
Box   3
Folder   3
East Moline Works News, 1965
FEREC
Box   3
Folder   4
Farm Equipment Research and Engineering Center Newsletter, 1968-1972
Box   3
Folder   4
Ag/Industrial Equipment Research and Engineering Newsletter, 1972-1974
Box   3
Folder   5
Hinsdale News, 1976-1978
Farmall
Box   3
Folder   6
Farmall Works News, 1965, 1968
Box   3
Folder   6
Farmall News, 1975
Fort Wayne
Box   3
Folder   7
Fort Wayne Tower Talk, 1946
Box   3
Folder   7
Tower Talk, 1978-1980
Box   3
Folder   8
Fort Wayne Operation News, 1965
Indianapolis
Box   3
Folder   9
Indianapolis Works Hoosier, 1943, 1948
Box   3
Folder   10
Indy News, 1977, 1978
Louisville
Box   3
Folder   11
Louisville Works News Notes, 1972 September
Box   3
Folder   11
Louisville Tractor Talk, 1974
Melrose Park
Box   3
Folder   12
Melrose Park News [plant], 1947-1949
Box   3
Folder   13
Melrose Park Works Managerial News-Letter, 1959-1960
Milwaukee Works
Box   4
Folder   1-4
Milwaukee Works Reporter, 1939-1945
Box   5
Folder   1-2
Milwaukee Reporter [plant], 1946-1949
Rock Falls
Box   5
Folder   3
Rock Falls Springmaker [plant], 1948-1949
Springfield
Box   5
Folder   4
Springfield Truckmaker [plant], 1947-1949
Box   5
Folder   5
Interchange, 1979, 1980
Box   5
Folder   6
Insight, 1984
Science and Engineering
Box   5
Folder   6
Solar News, 1969, 1975
Box   5
Folder   7
Inside Precision Products, 1980
Box   5
Folder   8
STL Update [Science and Technology Lab], 1981
Tractor Works
Box   5
Folder   9
Tractor Works Product Activity Bulletin, 1960
Box   5
Folder   9
Tractor Works Managerial News-Letter, 1960
West Pullman Works
Box   6
Folder   1
The Councilor, 1920, 1921
Box   6
Folder   2
West Pullman Works Review, 1920, 1943-1946
Box   6
Folder   3
West Pullman Review [plant], 1947-1949
Box   6
Folder   4
West Pullman Managerial Newsletter, 1950
Box   6
Folder   5
About West Pullman Works People, 1956-1963
Box   6
Folder   6
West Pullman Works News, 1963-1973
Box   6
Folder   7
West Pullman Plant News, 1975-1979
Box   6
Folder   8
Pro, 1978
Wisconsin Steel
Box   7
Folder   1
Coal Mines Benham [plant], 1947-1949
Box   7
Folder   2
Wisconsin Steeler, 1974
Box   7
Folder   3
Management, 1974
Miscellaneous Company Publications
Box   7
Folder   4
The IH Challenger, 1963
Box   7
Folder   5
International Harvester Horizons, 1965-1967
Box   7
Folder   6
Excel, 1973, 1974
Note: For employees of International Harvester.
Foreign Publications
Argentina
Box   7
Folder   7
El Viajante, 1944
Australia
Box   7
Folder   8
ISAS News, 1955
Box   7
Folder   9
International Harvester Farming in Australia, 1963, 1965
Box   7
Folder   10
Inside IH, 1964, 1972-1975
Box   7
Folder   10
Inside International, 1978
Box   7
Folder   11
International Harvester in Australia, 1973-1974
Canada
Box   7
Folder   12
Internews, 1978
Box   7
Folder   12
The Ag Marketer, 1981
France
Box   7
Folder   13
Le Marchand Réparateure de tracteurs..., 1966
Box   7
Folder   13
Informations Agricoles, 1973-1974
Mexico
Box   7
Folder   14
Boletin International, 1974, 1975
New Zealand
Box   7
Folder   15
IH Newsletter, 1972-1975
Philippines
Box   7
Folder   16
IH Newsletter, 1973, 1974
South Africa
Box   7
Folder   17
International News/Nuus, 1976
United Kingdom
Box   7
Folder   18
International Harvester Review, 1972-1974
Box   7
Folder   19
IH Reporter, 1978, 1979
Box   7
Folder   20
Seddon Atkinson Truckman, 1979