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Book or Pamphlet

IHC Pull Power Hay Press Catalog

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester. Shows pull power hay presses featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers ...
Photograph

Farmers Plow Field with Mogul 12-25 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Right side view of men plowing a field with a Mogul 12-25 tractor and a breaking plow.
Photograph

Thresher

Date: 1917
Description: A group of farmers feeds grain into a thresher with a horse-drawn wagon nearby.
Photograph

Men Working on Husker and Shredder

Date: 1917
Description: A man is standing on a wagon loaded with corn stalks while another man is operating a husker-shredder.
Print

"A Lesson in Arithmatic" Happy Farmer Tractor Advertising

Date: 1917
Description: The cover of a La Crosse Tractor advertisement from M. Maloney Company, Syracuse, N.Y.
Photograph

Victory Garden Window Display

Date: 1917
Description: Display in the window of John J. Blied & Sons promoting victory gardens and featuring seed packets, hoes, and watering cans.
Photograph

Making Germination Boxes and Corn Racks

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers using tools to make wooden germination boxes and corn racks outdoors in front of what is possibly a school building.
Photograph

Teachers Constructing Germination Box

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers working outdoors using tools to construct a sawdust germination box for corn.
Photograph

Titan 10-20 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Rear view of man on Titan 10-20 Tractor. The stencils are on the back of the tractor. In the background is a field, and what appears to be a factory.
Photograph

International 8-16 Tractor with Plow

Date: 1917
Description: A group of female agriculture students at San Fernando High pose on an International 8-16 tractor. Stenciling is on the front of the tractor.
Photograph

Moving Silage

Date: 1917
Description: A derrick is moving a box full of silage from a pit silo on an International Harvester Company farm.
Print

Auto-Tiller Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Two interior pages of a pamphlet produced by the World Harvester Corporation to advertise the auto-tiller. The advertisement features a photograph of a man...
Print

Peoria Tractor Company Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of an advertisement for the Peoria Tractor Company featuring the silhouettes of a barn and a farmer on a tractor against a setting sun and an i...
Print

Twin City 16 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Advertisement for the Twin City 16 tractor featuring four photographs of the tractor at work in a Texas farm field. The captions read: "Plowing 7" to 9" de...
Print

Wolverine Kerosene Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Advertisement for the Wolverine kerosene tractor with a headline reading: "Built to do Your Work at Lowest Fuel Cost and Least Repair Expense. Guaranteed t...
Print

Wolverine Kerosene Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Advertisement for a Wolverine kerosene tractor featuring a photograph of a farmer using the tractor and disc harrow to work in a field. The headline reads:...
Print

Common Sense 8 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Three-quarter view illustration from front of a Common Sense gas tractor. The caption reads: "The Common Sense '8' — A Sensation in Gas Tractors."
Photograph

Disking

Date: 1917
Description: Stuart Fargo sitting on a disk pulled by a team of four horses on the F.B. Fargo farm.
Poster

Farm to Win "Over There"

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a boy operating a plow, in silhouette. In the background, soldiers are operating an artillery piece among the rubble of...
Poster

Fight World Famine

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a boy battling a kettle of vultures. The boy is holding a pitchfork in one hand and making a fist with the other. Poste...

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