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Deering Harvester-Thresher Advertising Poster (Argentina)

Date: 1927
Description: South American advertising poster for Deering harvester-threshers (combines). Imprinted with "International Harvester Company Argentina; Bahia Blanca, Buen...
Photograph

Lindbergh before Flight

Date: 1927
Description: Publicist Harry Bruno; B.F. Mahoney, designer of "The Spirit of St. Louis"; an Earl Carroll chorus girl; Charles Lindbergh; and Bruno's partner, Richard Bl...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thresher Advertising Poster

Date: 1927
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines). Includes a color illustration of farmers harvesting grain with a tractor and a har...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1927
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering "triple-power" tractors, including the 10-20, 15-30, and Farmall Regular. Includes photographic illustrations of t...
Photograph

Dangers of Oil Lamps

Date: 1927
Description: A woman sitting at a kitchen table wearing a visor, leaning over a book while a lit oil lamp is nearby. Also on the table are a newspaper, additional books...
Photograph

Farm Machinery Dangers

Date: 1927
Description: A man puts his hand into a McCormick-Deering 15-30(?) tractor to reach the running belt at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
Photograph

Silo at IH Demonstration Farm in Grand Forks

Date: 1927
Description: View from field of cattle, barn, and silo at an International Harvester demonstration farm. Original caption reads: "IHC silo 20 feet below ground level an...
Photograph

Men Putting Up Fence

Date: 1927
Description: Two men stretching wire while putting up a barbed wire fence on the Frank Laramore farm.
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1927
Description: View down Main Street lined with shops. Cars are sporadically parked along the curbs. There is a hotel, the Fritzstoldt tailor, soda fountain and drug stor...
Photograph

Large Radio

Date: 1927
Description: Newspaperman Alvin Steinkopf leaning on a large radio in his Milwaukee apartment. Steinkopf is wearing a bow tie and holding a cigar in his hand.
Photograph

Oak Grove Camp Ground

Date: 1927
Description: Four young people standing in front of the main office and general store at the Oak Grove Campground. A sign on a tree reads: "Fresh milk, cream, eggs and ...
Photograph

Plastering Straw Stacks with Clay

Date: 1927
Description: Algerian men are plastering a straw stack with clay. Another straw stack can be seen on the right. Hills are barely visible in the distance. An out-of-focu...
Photograph

Twelve No. 11 McCormick Deering Harvester threshers

Date: 1927
Description: Handwritten caption on back of photograph reads: "Twelve No. 11 McCormick-Deering Harvester threshers (1927) cutting wheat on Louis Bertrand's farm outside...

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