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McCormick Catalog Art
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Lithograph illustration for the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a gentleman sitting in a Victorian parlor pointing to a globe for a boy and girl. Includes the text: "Teaching object lessons: my children on this globe you see the harvest fields of the earth where the McCormick is ever king."
1890
International Harvester Company
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W012SE9
WHi 4413
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McCormick Catalog Cover
1899
Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a field of grain with a man harvesting by hand at an "1801" marker and a man harvesting with a horse-...
McCormick Catalog Cover
1884
Cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing a "reaper used by ancient Gauls, First Century." The "reaper" is framed by a reaping hook, flowers and a humming...
McCormick Catalog Cover
1889
Color lithograph cover illustration on the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a Persian horseman on the side of a cliff looking down upon a caravan of farm machinery with the capti...
McCormick Catalog Cover
1896
Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. A small illustration at the top right is of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick corn binder in a field. The...
McCormick Grain Binder Advertising Poster
1882
Advertising poster for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company featuring a color illustration of a well-dressed farmer riding a binder pulled by two horses. The poster was printed by Shober and Ca...
McCormick "Back from the War" Advertising Poster
1899
Chromolithograph advertising poster for the McCormick grain binder showing a father, young girl, and a dog welcoming a returning Spanish-American War soldier. Includes the text: "Back from the war....
