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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
| Date: | 11 10 1926 |
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| Description: | Workers, including some African Americans, assembling mower gear housings along an assembly line at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory ... |
| Date: | 06 14 1921 |
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| Description: | Farmers harvesting wheat with an International 8-16 HP kerosene tractor and two Deering seven foot binders on the farm of W.P. Ridley in Maury County. Thre... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View from street of workers, including some African Americans, loading (and/or unloading) agricultural equipment and parts outside a general office of the ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from across street of men posing with farm and lawn equipment along the storefront of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company dealership. Thre... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Farm worker, Frank White, stops harvesting to pose with watermelon found among the cotton crop. The field, part of the O'Neill Ranch located in Helm, Calif... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | African American man harvesting cotton with an experimental McCormick-Deering 2-row cotton picker mounted on a Farmall Regular tractor. |
| Date: | 04 10 1935 |
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| Description: | African American field worker levels the ground with a McCormick-Deering F-12 tractor and a rotary scraper in preparation for planting a new crop of celery... |
| Date: | 03 16 1927 |
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| Description: | Engineering photograph of men field testing an experimental cotton picker pulled by a Farmall tractor. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Calendar sheet for "Deering-International" farm equipment manufactured by International Harvester Company. Features a color illustration of a man operating... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | African American field worker testing an experimental International Harvester cotton picker. Original caption reads: "A close-up front view of the Harveste... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | African American man dumping a load of cotton from an experimental International Harvester cotton picker into a wagon. |
| Date: | 03 16 1927 |
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| Description: | Right side profile view of a man pulling an experimental pull-type cotton picker through a cotton field with a Farmall Regular tractor. Another man is stan... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Rear view of an African American man plowing a field with an International diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and a disk plow. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Farm worker dumping cotton from an International Harvester cotton picker into a trailer pulled by a Farmall M tractor. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A group of workers grinding fertilizer with a power hammer mill. Original captions reads: "The Fish Meal Company of Fernandina, Florida, uses this Interna... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Scene from the film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the building of the first practical reaper on the McCormick farm in Virginia. Actors playing the parts ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A photograph from the set of the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the... |
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