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Poster

Twine

Date: 1920
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick, Deering, or International Twine. "Don't blame your binder for the misdeeds of weak, uneven, cheap twine." The ad was ma...
Photograph

Man Operating Grain Binder

Date: 1920
Description: Right side view of a farmer driving a team of three horses to pull a Keystone grain binder in a field.
Photograph

Two Men Harvesting with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Two farmers use an International 8-16 tractor and a threshing machine in a field.
Photograph

Men Harvesting Grain with Scythes

Date: 1920
Description: Three men harvesting grain with scythes. The men appear to be in period costume and are likely re-enacting harvesting methods of the first half of the 18th...
Photograph

Seven Ho-Chunk Men in Field

Date: 1920
Description: Outdoor group portrait of seven Ho-Chunk men standing outdoors in a cranberry bog, They are holding the hand scoops used to harvest cranberries. The long n...
Poster

P&O Plow Poster

Date: 1920
Description: Poster for use in the Philippines advertising the McCormick-Deering P&O plow. The poster features an illustration of a plow beneath a tree in the foregroun...
Photograph

Young Boy Harvesting Beans

Date: 1920
Description: A boy is holding a bushel basket while harvesting string beans in a field. A farmhouse and what appears to be a rabbit hutch or chicken coop are behind him...
Print

Yuba Tractor with Alfalfa

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement showing a man with a Yuba tractor hauling a load of alfalfa. The caption beneath the photograph reads: "This Yuba is an old timer — but it se...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman Taylor Team Mates

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Aultman Taylor farm equipment. The text reads: "Team Mates, Tractors and Threshers of Superior Quality," and an i...
Print

Cletrac Tank-Type Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the Cletrac tank-type crawler tractor featuring photographs of the tractor in action on a farm. The photographs illustrate, clockwise fro...
Print

What the Wallis Will Do

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the Wallis tractor, featuring multiple photographs of farmers using the tractor in the field along with a headline reading: "What the Wal...
Book or Pamphlet

Holt Combined Harvesters

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Holt Combined Harvesters. The illustration is of a hillside field colored yellow in which silhouetted farmers are usin...
Print

Cut-away Diagram

Date: 1920
Description: Cut-away diagram of the Holt Model 32 Combined Harvester. The text at bottom reads: "The above sectional view of the separator of the Model 32 'Holt' Combi...
Book or Pamphlet

Caterpillar Lifetime Combined Harvesters

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Caterpillar Lifetime combined harvesters, Models 30 and 32. The cover features a photograph of farmers using the harve...
Print

Caterpillar Model 32 Combined Harvester

Date: 1920
Description: Color illustration of the Holt "Caterpillar" Model 32 Lifetime combined harvester.
Print

Caterpillar Lifetime Harvesters

Date: 1920
Description: Illustrations of the Holt Model 32 (top) and Model 30 "Caterpillar" Lifetime harvesters (combines).
Postcard

Cherry Picking Scene, Door County

Date: 1920
Description: Colorized postcard view of tourists picking cherries.
Photograph

Tractor Pulling Binder

Date: 1920
Description: View of three men using a tractor to pull a binder in a field.
Photograph

Men Using Separators Filling Barn

Date: 1920
Description: Side view of men using separators to fill barn. Snow is on the ground.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1920
Description: View across harvested field towards a man using a horse-drawn binder. Sheaves of wheat are piled in the foreground. In the background are trees and farm bu...

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