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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...
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

Richard, Ralph and Floyd Quinney

Date: 1936
Description: Young Richard Quinney and his new brother Ralph seated on their father's lap in a chair on the farmhouse's porch.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering No. 31 Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1936
Description: McCormick-Deering No.31 harvester-thresher (combine) in a field. Original caption reads "New 31-RW West Coast Special harvester-thresher in "gyp" corn on 1...
Photograph

Contour Plowing

Date: 1936
Description: A view of two men on tractors, contour plowing a field. Two other men stand near a dirt road.
Photograph

Man Riding on Hay Rake

Date: 1936
Description: Man seated on hay rake pulled by two work horses. Original caption reads, "raking alsike clover with new McCormick-Deering Sulky rake owned and operated by...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Moldboard and Disk Plows Catalog Cover

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog featuring both moldboard and disk plows. Features a photograph from the rear of a man driving a tractor with a plow through...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Deering Plow Catalog Cover

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for moldboard an disk plows for tractors or horses. Features a photographic illustration of a man plowing a field with a Fa...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Deering Seeding Equipment Catalog Cover

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick-Deering seeding equipment. Features two photographs of men using horse-drawn and tractor driven grain drills.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering T-20 and TA-40 TracTracTor Brochure

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of a brochure for McCormick-Deering T-20 and TA-40 TracTracTors (crawler tractors), "For Heavy loads — For Steep Slopes — For Soft Soils."
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering TD-40 TracTracTors Brochure

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the McCormick-Deering TD-40 TracTracTor (crawler tractor). Features a photograph of a man sitting on a TD-40 TracTracT...
Print

Flyer for IH Diesel and Gasoline Industrial Power

Date: 1936
Description: Advertising flyer for International Harvester diesel and gasoline industrial power. Features two photographs showing International TracTracTors (crawler tr...
Print

Farm Implement News Cartoon

Date: 1936
Description: A cartoon from "Farm Implement News" stressing the importance of buying domestic binder twine.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Farm Machine Brochure

Date: 1936
Description: McCormick-Deering Farm Machine brochure imprinted with the dealership name of Polson Implement Co., Seattle, Washington. Features a photograph of a man ope...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Farmall 12 Brochure

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of a brochure for a McCormick-Deering F-12 tractor, featuring new quick attachable machines. Includes a photograph of a man plowing a field with an F...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering W-40 Tractor Brochure

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the McCormick-Deering W-40 tractor. Includes an image of a man operating a W-40 Tractor with the text: "Smooth-Flowing...
Photograph

Threshing Scene

Date: 1936
Description: A man is unloading bundles of grain from a horse-drawn wagon to another man (barely visible) who will feed the bundles into an Advance-Rumely threshing mac...
Poster

P.S.U. U.G.T. with Illustrations and Hammer and Sickle

Date: 1936
Description: P.S.U. U.G.T. with two illustrations on the left, of a person working in a field with a sickle, and a soldier with a gun on the battlefield. Below the bott...

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