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John Muir's Clock Design

Date: 1863
Description: Sketch of John Muir's clock design.The built clock was a combination of scythes, wheels and arrows. A rough bough of burr oak was set upon a base incrusted...
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Shovel Plow

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Description: Drawing of a shovel plow.
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Components of a Manure Spreader

Date: 1922
Description: Illustration of the gears and components at the end of a manure spreader.
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Six Decades of Progress 1831-1891

Date: 1890
Description: Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration for a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Includes illustrations of McCormick's "first" reaper and McCor...
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The Sunrise of Agricultural Prosperity

Date: 1890
Description: Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration for a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Features a drawing of men holding grain cradles in a wheat fie...
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The Mower and the Rake

Date: 08 15 1938
Description: Agricultural implements with corn growing in the background.
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Sketch of the #181 self propelled combine (1961)

Date: 06 16 1959
Description: Black and white development sketch for the McCormick-Deering #181 combine.
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Ellis and Steward Motor for Harvesting Machinery Patent Cover

Date: 02 16 1897
Description: Patent No. 577,105, Patented February 16, 1897 by G.H. Ellis and J.F. Steward. Page one of two.
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Ellis and Steward Motor for Harvesting Machinery Patent Page Two

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Description: Patent No. 577,105, Patented February 16, 1897 by G.H. Ellis and J.F. Steward. Page two of two.
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Peasant Leaning on Cultivator

Date: 1931
Description: Drawing of a man wearing wooden clogs, leaning on a cultivator hand tool in a field. Another man works in the far background.
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Filling Haymow

Date: 08 22 1928
Description: View towards men using a thresher to fill a haymow in a barn. A tractor is belt-driving the thresher.

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