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American Inventors

Date: 1900
Description: Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog

Date: 1890
Description: Color catalog illustration of a farmer harvesting grain at night by moonlight with a horse-drawn grain binder. A farmhouse is in the background. Text at bo...
Poster

New Champion Binder Poster

Date: 1895
Description: Advertising poster for the Champion grain binder, manufactured by Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company. Features a large color illustration of a man on a h...
Photograph

Harvesting Grain by Hand in Mexico

Date: 06 29 1928
Description: Several people harvest grain by hand, while two men on horses look on. All the men wear sombreros; the men on horses wear suits, while the harvesters wear...
Photograph

Boy with Horses near Barn

Date: 09 20 1928
Description: Boy speaking to man while holding a team of horses near a large barn. A McCormick-Deering Weber wagon, manufactured by International Harvester, and a plow,...
Photograph

Harvesting Scene

Date: 1915
Description: Harvesting scene with groups of men, women, and boys and multiple reapers hitched to oxen. Foothills or mountains are in the background, behind a row of t...
Poster

French Advertising Poster

Date: 1900
Description: French lithographed advertising poster for McCormick mowers. Includes color illustration and the text "R. Wallut and C., Paris," "Machines Mac-Cormick," an...
Poster

French Advertising Poster

Date: 1900
Description: French lithographed advertising poster featuring a color illustration of two horses pulling a man on a mower. Text on the poster includes "R. Wallut and C....
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McCormick Family Farm

Date: 1885
Description: Engraved illustration of "Walnut Grove," the "homestead of the McCormick family" in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick developed the first s...
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McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1885
Description: Engraved bird's-eye view illustration of the "McCormick Harvesting Machine Company's Works," including railroad cars, smoke from smokestacks and factory wo...
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McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1885
Description: Engraved illustration of a man operating a horse-drawn McCormick harvester and twine binder in a field.
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McCormick Reaper Advertising Brochure

Date: 1862
Description: Cover of a British advertising brochure for "McCormick's Reaping and Mowing Machine, (of which 50,000 have now been made in the United States) with his new...
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Advertisement for McCormick Self-Rake Reaper

Date: 1868
Description: Page from an advertising brochure featuring "McCormick's Prize Self-Raker, . . . the only perfect reaper in lodged grain." Features an engraved illustratio...
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McCormick Mower Advertisement

Date: 1868
Description: Page from an advertising brochure for "McCormick's Prize Mower." Includes illustrations of award medals for the Paris Exposition Universal of 1867, and a m...
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McCormick Wire Binder Advertisement

Date: 1878
Description: Advertisement for the McCormick Combined Reaping and Self-Binding Machines, as manufactured by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company [or possibly C.H. a...
Historical Object

Reaper Test on Centennial Coin

Date: 1931
Description: Back side of a coin made for International Harvester to celebrate the "Reaper Centennial." The event commemorated the one hundred year anniversary of the t...
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View of Rush St. Bridge From Nortons Block River Street

Date: 1861
Description: Lithograph illustration of downtown Chicago near the Rush Street bridge (a "swing bridge"). The McCormick Reaper Works and other factory buildings are on t...
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Century of the Reaper

Date: 1931
Description: Cover of the book "Century of the Reaper" by Cyrus McCormick III ("Cyrusie"). The cover includes a color illustration of the senior Cyrus McCormick testing...
Print

McCormick General Office Building

Date: 1875
Description: Newspaper engraving of the building at Randolph and Dearborn Streets that served as the McCormick General Office from 1879 to 1885. An American flag flies ...
Historical Object

McCormick Electrotype

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Description: Electrotype created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. A woodcut was created first, the electrotype next, then the letterp...

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