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The Reaper Takes Form
| Back cover of an advertisement sheet, with a front page that reads: "International Harvester Celebrates The Invention of the Reaper". The color illustration features Cyrus Hall McCormick building the first reaper as a group of people look on. The text below the color illustration reads: "The Reaper Takes Form, The McCormick Farm in Virginia, 1831 A.D. Cyrus Hall McCormick builds into his great invention the seven basic operative principles that are to be found in the grain harvesting machines of today, including the harvester-thresher or combine." At the bottom of the advertisement is the front and back of the Reaper Centennial Coin commemorating the one hundred year anniversary of the testing of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick. 1831-1931. |
| Image ID: | 150034 |
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| Creation Date: | 1931 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
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| Collection Name: | Reaper centennial celebration records, 1923-1936 |
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| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 2Q, Box 5, Folder 2 |
| Original Dimensions: | 11 x 14 inches |
| Title on folder: "Saturday Evening Post adds — 1931 — (Colored)". The illustration is signed by Philip Lyford. |
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| Men |
| Women |
| Aprons |
| Hats |
| Suits (Clothing) |
| Work clothes |
| Advertising |
| Farm buildings |
| Agricultural machinery industry |
| Agricultural machinery |
| Trees |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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