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Book or Pamphlet

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...
Poster

Machines Agricoles & Ficelle Deering

Date: 09 25 1925
Description: Advertising calendar for Deering brand farm machinery showing a French woman in a field with a basket and tilling tool. Printed by H. Brun, Paris, France.
Poster

Deering Small Calendar

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising calendar for the Deering line. The 1926 French calendar's month of January shows a woman who had been working on a farm.
Photograph

African American Woman at Work in McCormick Works' Community Garden

Date: 07 1932
Description: African American woman tending to her plot in the McCormick Works' garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Harves...
Photograph

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1901
Description: Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover's color illustration features a woman with a rake watching a ...
Book or Pamphlet

Frost and Wood Agricultural Implement Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Cover of advertising catalog for the Frost and Wood Company, manufacturers of agricultural implements and harvesting machinery, Smith's Falls, Ontario, Can...
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Farm Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1906
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog of International Harvester's Osborne line of harvesting equipment. The cover features an illustration of a young man and a ...
Print

The Evolution of the Reaper, Part One

Date: 1883
Description: Three illustrations from an 1883 McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog portraying the evolution of the reaper. The first drawing is captioned: "Firs...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Advertising Card

Date: 1886
Description: Front of a card advertising the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Illustrations show "primitive" harvesting methods alongside a McCormick binder and a ...
Magazine or Periodical

Case Centennial Advertisement

Date: 1942
Description: Magazine advertisement celebrating the centennial of J.I. Case Co. of Racine, Wisconsin. The advertisement features a photograph of a contemporary tractor ...
Poster

Bluebell Cream Harvester Calendar

Date: 1913
Description: Calendar advertising International Harvester's Bluebell brand Cream Harvester (more commonly called a cream separator). Features a large illustration of tw...
Photograph

Female Worker at Machine in Deering Twine Mill

Date: 1910
Description: A young woman works at her station in a factory - probably the Deering Twine Mill.
Book or Pamphlet

Bluebell Cream Separators

Date: 1913
Description: Page from an "IHC Newspaper and Catalogue Electrotype Service" booklet advertising Bluebell cream separators. Clockwise from top left, the illustration cap...
Photograph

Reaper Replica Demonstration

Date: 1930
Description: A man, possibly Cyrus McCormick III, demonstrating a reaper replica to a group of onlooking 4-H Club members.
Photograph

Group at Hinsdale Demonstration

Date: 1945
Description: Groups of men examine International equipment on display outdoors at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. The equipment on display include...
Photograph

Woman Operating International A Tractor at Military Base

Date: 1942
Description: A woman uses an International Model A tractor to mow grass on the side of a hill at Camp Pendleton. In the background is an encampment of tents set up at t...
Print

La Crosse Tractor Advertisement for the Model F and G Tractors

Date: 
Description: Am advertisement for the La Crosse Models F and G tractors. Color illustration depicts a man and woman watching another man driving a tractor. Includes a g...
Photograph

International Harvester Display at Missouri State Fair

Date: 1935
Description: People gather around displays of International Harvester equipment set up beneath a tent at the Missouri State Fair.
Photograph

Missouri State Fair

Date: 1935
Description: Men and women examine trucks, tractors and farm equipment on display on the grounds at the Missouri State Fair.

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