Photograph
McCormick Anvil Block
| Large stone identified as the anvil block upon which Cyrus McCormick built the first reaper. The stone is likely on the grounds of International Harvester's McCormick Works. |
| Image ID: | 61152 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1915 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Chicago (?) |
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| State: | Illinois |
| Collection Name: | International Harvester Company corporate archives central file (documented series), 1819-1998 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 6Z, Box 1306, File 513, #513 |
| Original Dimensions: | 7 x 5 inches |
| The inscription on the stone may not be entirely accurate. A letter written by Lucile Kellar, curator of the McCormick Collection, on August 24, 1961 describes an anvil stone on the McCormick factory grounds: "In front of one of the buildings in the Works grounds, I think it is the hospital, is the old anvil stone and anvil that came from the tilt hammer shop of Selah Holbrook of Port Republic, Virginia. Holbrook made sickles for C. H. McCormick in the 1840s." [McC Mss AB, box 33] |
| Agricultural implements |
| Implements, utensils, etc. |
| Antiquities |
| Outdoor photography |
| Plaques, plaquettes |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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