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Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Red, black and gold cover art for McCormick advertising catalog showing silhouette of a farmer on a horse-drawn reaper.
Photograph

Boating on the Lake

Date: 1937
Description: Woman at the tiller of a motorboat with tree-lined shore in the background. She is wearing a captain's hat at a jaunty angle and a sailor middy blouse.
Photograph

Fort Wayne McCormick Dealership

Date: 1899
Description: View from across street of the three-story facade of a large brick building. A group of employees are posing outdoors in front of the McCormick Harvesting ...
Photograph

Texas International Truck Dealership

Date: 
Description: International Harvester motor truck dealership. Four men are standing on the sidewalk in front of the building. Three International trucks are parked in th...
Book or Pamphlet

Adriance Buckeye Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of a catalog for Adriance, Platt & Company featuring an illustration of a woman in a wheat field. Adriance, Platt & Co. manufactured Buckeye and Triu...
Book or Pamphlet

Frost and Wood Company Catalog

Date: 1902
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Frost and Wood Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment, Smith's Falls, Ontario, Canada. Features a color i...
Photograph

Osborne Grain Binder

Date: 07 31 1912
Description: Farmer driving a horse-drawn Osborne grain binder near a barn.
Photograph

Women Workers

Date: 1920
Description: Studio portrait of three female International Harvester factory workers posing for the camera. The women may have worked at one of the company's twine mill...
Photograph

Farmer Cuts Wood with Power Saw

Date: 05 16 1928
Description: Farmer cutting wood with a circular saw powered by a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine.
Photograph

Governor Kohler and Milk Toast

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., and an unidentified elderly woman, toast each other with paper cups of milk. They are standing near the Department of Agric...
Photograph

Weary Fairgoers

Date: 
Description: Two weary fairgoers catch a nap on a convenient bench at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds.
Photograph

Factory Worker at Plano Works

Date: 1919
Description: Factory worker operating machinery at International Harvester's Plano Works. The factory was later known as "West Pullman Works."
Photograph

Akron Works

Date: 1910
Description: A factory worker stands with a shovel at International Harvester's Akron Works.
Photograph

Man Standing Near Factory Door

Date: 1916
Description: Portrait of a man standing in office clothes just outside a factory door. The man was an employee of International Harvester, likely in Chicago.
Photograph

Worker Near Factory Door

Date: 1916
Description: A International Harvester employee stands near a factory door. The factory was most likely located in Chicago.
Photograph

Construction Worker Buddis Stone

Date: 1958
Description: Construction worker Buddis Stone at the site of the Mammoth Pool Dam along the San Joaquin River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Stone bored holes for expl...
Photograph

Farmall F-30 and Hammer Mill

Date: 1931
Description: A man operates a McCormick-Deering Hammer Mill powered by a Farmall F-30 tractor.
Photograph

Man Using Hammer Mill

Date: 1931
Description: A man works with an International Harvester No. 1 Hammer Mill in a large wooden barn.
Photograph

Man with Chattanooga Walking Plow

Date: 1924
Description: Rear view of a man using a horse-drawn Chattanooga walking plow pulled by a team of two horses or donkeys in a field.
Photograph

Factory Worker at Chattanooga Works

Date: 1930
Description: Factory worker using a press at the Chattanooga Plow Works.

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