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Imminent Head-On Collision on Rural Road

Date: 07 1927
Description: A staged scene showing a car passing a truck while another car is coming the other way. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural...
Poster

Free Engine School Advertising Poster

Date: 1916
Description: Advertising poster for a "free engine school" sponsored by International Harvester Company. The "school" consisted of classes on the operation and care of ...
Poster

Free Tractor School

Date: 1917
Description: Advertising poster for a Free Tractor School in Omaha, Nebraska, put on by International Harvester. The course will have instructors who are "practical men...
Photograph

Farm Hazard: Children Playing with Ammunition

Date: 08 1927
Description: Staged scene of a toddler playing with shot gun shells and a hammer. This photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Departm...
Photograph

African American School Band

Date: 1914
Description: African-American school band assembled in a lecture hall at the Piney Woods Country Life School with Agricultural Extension Department workers and charts i...
Photograph

Crowd Gathered to Watch International Harvester Film

Date: 07 07 1929
Description: Rural farming crowd gathered to watch an International Harvester film on the side of a barn. The event was staged by J.H. Matthews, an International Harves...
Photograph

Pupils Studying Corn

Date: 1913
Description: A group of children studying ears of corn outside small wooden shacks or corn cribs.
Photograph

Children at Work and Play in Schoolyard

Date: 1917
Description: Boys working in a garden while smaller children dance in a circle on the grounds of Middlefield No. 2 Consolidated School in Ostego County. Teachers are lo...
Photograph

Children Working in School Garden

Date: 1916
Description: Large group of students and teachers working in the Tyler School Gardens. The director of the school (or gardens?) was E.M. Bardwell.
Photograph

Children Working in School Garden

Date: 1913
Description: Large group of school children tending to their school garden plots.
Photograph

School Garden Dedication

Date: 05 1917
Description: Large crowd of school children and adults gathered for a school garden dedication. Original caption reads: "Mr. Prost making a talk at a garden dedication ...
Photograph

Bull Along Roadside

Date: 08 1929
Description: Bull standing along a rural road with farm buildings in the background. Original caption reads: "Better tether him out than for him not to get pasture."
Photograph

Delivery of 4-H Accounting Award

Date: 05 20 1936
Description: 4-H County Agent Ray Aune delivers a McCormick-Deering cream separator to Miss Luella Pagel. Ms. Pagel was the winner of the state 4-H Accounting Award. Pi...
Photograph

Tractor School Students in Classroom

Date: 02 13 1925
Description: Men seated in a makeshift classroom for an International Harvester "tractor school" session at A&M Motor and Implement Co. Charts illustrating the use of t...
Photograph

Giving the Soil the Acid Test

Date: 
Description: Man, possibly from International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department, performing an acid test on soil in front of a group of men and boys.
Photograph

IHC exhibit at the American Library Association Conference

Date: 06 1928
Description: Man sitting in an exhibit of International Harvester films at an American Library Association Conference. The exhibit was titled: "Moving Pictures and the ...
Photograph

Filming a "Home Economics" Scene

Date: 1925
Description: Mr. Hyde and Miss Wigent filming a woman and child while the woman is filling pails with water from a hand-pump. The original caption reads: "Taking footag...
Book or Pamphlet

Feed Your Hungry Crops

Date: 1918
Description: Cover of an "educational" pamphlet published by International Harvester to promote the use of manure spreaders, fertilizers and lime spreaders. Features an...
Photograph

Men Pull Maxwell Automobile on Muddy Road

Date: 02 21 1915
Description: Three men pulling a Maxwell Model 25 touring automobile through a muddy road. Original caption reads: "On the road from Union Springs, and Tuskeegee, Ala.,...
Photograph

Agricultural Extension Publications

Date: 1946
Description: An array of publications produced and distributed by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. Includes booklets relating to plowing, ho...

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