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Photograph

Man Working on Engine

Date: 1921
Description: Man working on an inline truck engine at International Harvester's Akron Works. The factory was owned by the Aultman & Miller Buckeye Company until the com...
Photograph

Experimental International Tractor

Date: 1921
Description: Experimental International tractor. Right side view.
Photograph

Reverse Drive Tractor with Hay Rake

Date: 1921
Description: Man operating an experimental(?) reverse drive tractor with mounted hay rake in a field.
Photograph

Field Photographer

Date: 1921
Description: A photographer, likely an employee of International Harvester, and his hand-crank motion picture camera standing in a field in front of man on top of a wag...
Photograph

Photographer at Cotton Harvest

Date: 1921
Description: A cameraman films a man stooping to pick cotton while other people are looking on from the background.
Photograph

Home Creamery

Date: 1921
Description: A woman operates a home creamery powered by an International Harvester engine on a porch.
Photograph

International Harvester Engine in a Wagon

Date: 1921
Description: A man stands in a wagon next to an International Harvester engine while other people look on. There is a water tower in the background on the right.
Photograph

Front Street

Date: 1921
Description: View of Front Street with five men standing along a sidewalk. They are standing near a two-story building which houses the Avoca Cooperative Company and th...
Photograph

Business Section

Date: 1921
Description: Elevated view of the central business district. The Avoca Cooperative Company is on the street corner on the left. Three men congregate near a car parked a...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1921
Description: View from street of row of shops on along an unpaved street. A car drives on the street. A sign in the distances reads, "Brittingham and Hixon Lumber."
Book or Pamphlet

Russell Traction Engine

Date: 1921
Description: Page in the Year Book of the Russell & Co. featuring a color illustration of a single cylinder traction engine.
Photograph

"The Queen of Sheba" Scene Still

Date: 1921
Description: The Queen of Sheba, played by Betty Blythe, sits in a cart and holds a sword above her head in William Fox's "Queen of Sheba" (1921).
Photograph

H.B. Warner, Joan Warner and Rita Stanwood Warner

Date: 1921
Description: Original caption: "Mr. Warner's spare moments are divided between cleansing his car and photographing his baby while Mrs Warner devoted herself to photogra...
Print

International Truck Advertising Proof Sheet

Date: 1921
Description: Advertising proof sheet for International trucks featuring examples of logos, or trademarks, a truck, and an engine.
Photograph

Wallace Reid and Gloria Swanson

Date: 1921
Description: Anatol Spencer (played by Wallace Reid) stands in a doorway with his wife Vivian (Gloria Swanson) in this scene still from Cecil B. DeMille's 1921 producti...
Map or Atlas

Topography, Wisconsin, Gogebic Iron Range

Date: 1921
Description: Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Includes inset location map. "Contour interval 10 feet." "Advance sheet, subject to correction." "Surveyed in 19...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1921
Description: View down Main Street. Designated parking is in the center of the street. On the left is a billboard, and signs in front of the commercial buildings read "...
Photograph

Methodist Evangelical Church

Date: 1921
Description: Three-quarter view of front and side of the Methodist Evangelical Church, a wooden building with arched windows on the side and an arched entrance in the f...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1921
Description: View down center of unpaved Main Street, with a service garage on the left and ice cream parlors on the right. There are lampposts along the sidewalks, and...
Postcard

Front Street

Date: 1921
Description: Colorized postcard view down the center of a busy street in the central business district. Many cars are parked at an angle along the curbs. Lampposts line...

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