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International Harvester Paint Chart

Date: 1940
Description: Flyer containing paint chips for repainting International Harvester tractors and farm machines. The chart includes "Harvester Red Varnish Enamel for Farm M...
Photograph

Testing Apparatus for McCormick-Deering Combine

Date: 1940
Description: McCormick-Deering #42 combine connected to a testing apparatus at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The factory was constructed in 1933 and was ...
Photograph

Testing Apparatus for McCormick-Deering Combine

Date: 1940
Description: McCormick-Deering #42 combine connected to a testing apparatus at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The factory was constructed in 1933 and was ...
Photograph

Loading Sacks with Farmall A Tractor and Wagon

Date: 1940
Description: Farm manager R.M. Hawse standing in a Weber Wagon loaded with bags. The wagon is hitched to a Farmall A tractor. The bags are labeled "concrete cement" but...
Photograph

Cranberry Spraying

Date: 1940
Description: Boom spraying of cranberries, in the Wisconsin Rapids area and probably by members of the Asa Bennett family. This technique using a tractor was developed ...
Photograph

I-12 Tractor on a Golf Course

Date: 1940
Description: A man mows a golf course with an International I-12 tractor owned by the City of Davenport. A group of women are playing golf in the background.
Photograph

I-14 Tractor and Beam Sprayer in Apple Orchard

Date: 1940
Description: Three men operating an International I-14 industrial tractor and a 300-gallon beam sprayer in an apple orchard. One man is sitting on the tractor while the...
Photograph

Turkey Farm

Date: 1940
Description: A farmer standing near a tractor amidst turkeys at Reif Turkey Farm. The original caption reads: "Mr. Glenn Reif uses Farmall H for general farm work, belt...
Photograph

Farmer Using Farmall M Tractor

Date: 1940
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering Farmall M tractor with a Number 8 bottom plow to work in a field.
Photograph

Farmall M with Number 8 Bottom Plow

Date: 1940
Description: Rear view of a man using a McCormick-Deering Farmall M tractor with a Number 8 bottom plow to do field work on a hillside. Farm buildings are in the backgr...
Photograph

Man Milking Cows

Date: 1940
Description: Roger Thomas uses a McCormick-Deering milker on a Holstein cow at the Lee Thomas farm.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Thresher Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering combines (harvester-threshers). Includes the text: "McCormick-Deering Combines for every farm and ev...
Photograph

Hammer and Roughage Mills Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for "McCormick-Deering Hammer and Roughage Mills / Corn Shellers, Feed grinders." Includes a photograph of a field with co...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Corn Picker Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering corn pickers, featuring a photograph of a man operating a Farmall M tractor and a corn picker. Also ...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering No.4 Stalk Cutter Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering stalk cutters featuring two photographs of a stalk cutter pulled by a Farmall H tractor. Includes th...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Cream Separator Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering cream separators, featuring a color illustration of a cream separator in the foreground and five cow...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Tractor Mower Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering tractor mowers. Features two photographs of farmers pulling mowers with Farmall tractors. Original c...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Tillage Tools

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for tillage tools, featuring a photo of a man in a field with a Farmall M tractor and a disk harrow. Also includes the text...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Plow Catalog

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick-Deering plows, featuring photo illustrations of men operating a horse-drawn walking plow, a horse-drawn sulky...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Chilled Plows Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering chilled plows. Features an illustration of an International Harvester factory, possibly the Canton W...

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