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Building Mower Bars at McCormick Works

Date: 1936
Description: Elevated view of workers building sickle bars for mowers at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in ...
Photograph

Refueling a Tri-Motor

Date: 1936
Description: Refueling a Ford Tri-Motor airplane. Because gasoline truck hoses did not have pumps, airplanes were refueled by filling 5-gallon cans and then lifting the...
Photograph

Experimental Military Tractor

Date: 1936
Description: Engineering photograph of an experimental McCormick-Deering tractor with wheel covers. The tractor was apparently designed for use by the U.S. military. Th...
Photograph

Residential Housing

Date: 1936
Description: View down road of mass-produced residential housing with farm in background.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering No. 31-RW West Coast Special Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1936
Description: Farmer Frank Rakow harvesting corn with a McCormick-Deering no. 31-RW West Coast Special harvester-thresher (combine). Mr. Rakow and the No. 31-RW are work...
Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Diesel TracTracTor

Date: 1936
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for International Harvester diesel crawler tractors (TracTracTors), featuring a tractor set against an arrow design.
Print

Diesel Power Unit PD-80

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for International PD-80 diesel power units.
Poster

International Harvester Parts and Service Advertising Poster

Date: 1936
Description: Advertising poster for parts and repair service for McCormick-Deering tractors. Includes the text: "only genuine parts and service are good enough for McCo...
Poster

New York World's Fair International Crawler Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1936
Description: Advertising poster for International Harvester crawler tractors (TracTracTors) showing the tractors laying "groundwork for the New York World's Fair, 1939"...
Photograph

Loading Big Log

Date: 1936
Description: Loading a large white pine log cut on the Menominee Indian Reservation onto a truck. The log was hauled to the Wisconsin State Fair for a display about the...
Poster

Farmall F-12 Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1936
Description: Advertising poster for the F-12 tractor. Features an illustration of the tractor surrounded by blueprint style drawings of its features. Includes the text:...
Photograph

Checkrow Corn Planter

Date: 1936
Description: McCormick-Deering Checkrow Corn Planter manufactured by International Harvester.
Photograph

Comparison of Tractor Farming and Horse Farming

Date: 1936
Description: A drawing titled: "The Life of Two Farmers" illustrating the difference in work loads between a horse farmer and a Farmall tractor farmer. According to the...
Photograph

Potato Spraying

Date: 1936
Description: Two farmers using a Farmall tractor with a Bean-Royal #20 sprayer to spray a crop of potatoes.
Photograph

Binder Knotters Testing at McCormick Works

Date: 1936
Description: Factory workers test binder knotters at the McCormick Works.
Photograph

Milker Cooler and Cream Separator Display

Date: 1936
Description: R.H. Bunker and N.H. Dover stand next to milk coolers and cream separators on display at an International Harvester dealership.
Photograph

International Truck and I-30 with Loader

Date: 1936
Description: A man is using an International I-30 industrial tractor with front loader to scoop gravel into the bed of an International truck owned by People's Gas Comp...
Photograph

Bronstein & Rovner Truck

Date: 1936
Description: Four men load fruits and vegetables into the back of an International C-30 truck owned by Bronstein & Rovner. The truck is backed up at the loading dock of...
Photograph

Power Dam

Date: 1936
Description: Elevated view of the power dam on the Wisconsin River at Prairie du Sac.
Photograph

Village on the Bluffs

Date: 1936
Description: View along side of road across a field of a village on the Mississippi bluffs, with many houses and telephone lines visible.

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