Series: Records Available in Original Hard Copy

Subseries: Deering Harvester Company

Roadmen - name, salary, contacts, sales, 1892-1902 (#28 on Jallings inventory)
Physical Description: 14 volumes 
Scope and Content Note: Recording monthly salary; employee name and address; position (including general agent, office, warehouseman, collector, salesman, collector salesman, expert, or blockman); date, terms, and expiration of contract; notice to be given; transfer information; and remarks. Roadmen generally worked for the general agents who in turn worked for Deering. Parts of the records are alphabetical by employee and parts alphabetical by location of general agent.

Employee Records, 1896? (#12 on Jallings inventory)
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Scope and Content Note: Alphabetical employee records consisting of name and address, salary, and position of office and clerical employees, apparently compiled in 1896 but including information such as names of previous employers going back to 1877.

Deering Works Payroll Records, 1935-1938 (#86 on Jallings inventory)
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Scope and Content Note: In these sections: fire and watch, repairs and maintenance, stores, and vacation.

Subseries: Milwaukee Harvester Company

Agents-locations, contracts, salaries, 1898-1901 (#73 on Jallings inventory)
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Scope and Content Note: Provides information by agent's location and year such as name of employee, occupation, salary per month, dates of contract, time of employment, and remarks.

Subseries: Champion Division, IHC

Agencies and sales - foreign, domestic, 1903 (#30 on Jallings inventory)
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Scope and Content Note: Labeled jobbing and foreign, the volume documents sales to agents in foreign countries and a few in New York City and west coast cities, giving the following information: contract record and term, name of machine and/or attachments sold, physical quantities and dollar values, total sales in 1901 and 1902, consignee and destination, dates, and debits and credits to the agent's account. It includes alphabetical indexes by name of agent and by name of city.

Subseries: International Harvester Company

Annual settlement with agents, 1904-1913 (#68 on Jallings inventory)
Physical Description: 106 volumes 
Scope and Content Note: Records comprise 7 very large binders for 1904-1910 and 99 eleven-page paper-covered reports for 1911-1913. Extremely detailed and comprehensive yearly reports of sales of machines and equipment (in approximately 125 classifications), physical volume, averages, expenses, percentages, cost of goods sold, cash receipts, collections, worthless accounts, outstanding balances, and other details are recorded. Of the 7 large volumes, one is a recapitulation of domestic and foreign totals, domestic totals, and district totals; one is a recapitulation of transfer agencies, including warehouses; four are each devoted to a single district, giving the figures for each general agent in the district; and one is organized by general agents and includes district recapitulations for 1904-1906. Of the 99 reports for 1911-1913, each is for an individual general agent, arranged by city, as well as one for each district (total) and one for domestic summaries.

Subseries: Plano Division, IHC

Time and payroll records, 1903-1908 (#75 on Jallings inventory)
Physical Description: 9 volumes 
Scope and Content Note: Give employee name and number, occupation, day worked, total hours worked, rate, amount, allowance, total inspection, gross wages, benefit fund, time advances, net wages, and remarks.

Subseries: McCormick Division, IHC

Payrolls - clerks, foremen, assistants, 1899-1919 (#80 on Jallings inventory)
Physical Description: 5 volumes 
Scope and Content Note: Arranged alphabetically by first letter of employee name, show dates and rates of pay.