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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1886
Description: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company annual catalog cover featuring an illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat. Below the text reads: "Harvesting...
Photograph

Diagram of McCormick's Reaper

Date: 1867
Description: A diagram of McCormick's cultivator-reaper, which was patented in 1845. The illustration, titled "The Cultivator" depicts a man using a rake to remove the ...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing a "reaper used by ancient Gauls, First Century." The "reaper" is frame...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — India

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard with a color illustration of men and women working in fields. Original caption: "India — Primitive methods are still in use. The Reaping Hook has ...
Photograph

Farmall 350 Tractor with Baler and Wagon

Date: 1957
Description: Color photograph, slightly elevated, of two farmers baling hay with a McCormick Farmall 350 tractor, a McCormick baler and a wagon.
Photograph

German Farmers Baling Hay in Alpine Country

Date: 
Description: German farmers baling hay in southern Germany's Alpine country. The men are using an International D-214 tractor with mower and wagon. Original caption rea...
Photograph

Farmers Baling Hay with IHC Hay Press

Date: 01 15 1908
Description: Three men are posing in a field while baling hay with an IHC horse-driven hay press.
Photograph

Farmer Harvests Grain on Steep Hill with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of a farmer harvesting grain on a hill or ridge with a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder near Pittsburgh. In the background is a va...
Book or Pamphlet

IHC Pull Power Hay Press Catalog

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester. Shows pull power hay presses featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers ...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Front cover of a German language advertising catalog for International Harvester's Milwaukee line of harvesting machinery. Features a chromolithograph illu...
Poster

Harvester-Thresher Advertising Poster

Date: 1929
Description: Advertising sign for the McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thresher (Combine). The poster includes the slogan "Once Over and it's All Over."
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of advertising catalog for the Deering line of IHC harvesting machines. Cover features a chromolithograph of a field scene with shocks of wheat...
Photograph

International Truck and McCormick Harvesting Machinery

Date: 1950
Description: Man working in a field with an International truck and a McCormick harvester-thresher (combine).
Photograph

Threshing Clover with McCormick-Deering No. 31-RW Harvester-Thresher

Date: 10 27 1936
Description: Farmers threshing Ladino clover on the farm of M.M. Laurence with a McCormick-Deering No. 31-RW West Coast Special harvester-thresher (combine).
Photograph

Workers Load Straw from Baler onto International Truck

Date: 1941
Description: Three farm workers loading straw from a baler onto the back of an International K-6 truck owned by Sowash Grain Company.
Book or Pamphlet

French Deering Catalog Cover

Date: 1912
Description: Cover of a Deering farm implement catalog written in French. The cover features a lithograph of a woman sitting in field among bundles of grain holding a s...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Reaper with Windmill

Date: 1905
Description: Two men, two women and a boy harvesting grain with an early McCormick reaper. A windmill is in the background. The photograph may have been a staged re-ena...
Photograph

Harvesting Wheat with a Cradle

Date: 1918
Description: A farmer using a cradle to harvest wheat in a field. Farm buildings are in the far background.
Photograph

Alfalfa Field "The Manx"

Date: 
Description: Photographic postcard view across harvested field towards a man holding a rake and standing next to a horse-drawn wagon, and two women in the wagon sitting...
Photograph

Thresher

Date: 1917
Description: A group of farmers feeds grain into a thresher with a horse-drawn wagon nearby.

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