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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...
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Cotton King Disk Harrow Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Cotton King disk harrows sold by International Harvester. Features an illustration of a view framed by trees and a fenc...
Photograph

Farm Equipment in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: A cultivator sitting in the snow near a fence, illustrating the hazards of improper equipment housing. A herd of cows is in the background near a barn and ...
Photograph

Farm Equipment in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: A plow is sitting in the snow in front of farm buildings and a woodpile. The photograph was likely taken to illustrate the hazards of improper equipment st...
Photograph

Farm Implements in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: Several farm implements, including a grain binder and mower, sitting in a barnyard covered with snow. A shed, farmhouse, and woodpile are in the background...
Photograph

Men Moving Field Harvesters at McCormick Works

Date: 1959
Description: Elevated view of a factory worker using a forklift on a loading dock to move a field harvester on a pallet at International Harvester's McCormick Works. An...
Book or Pamphlet

Craig Tractor Pamphlet

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising Craig tractors. The cover features an illustration of a farmer using a Craig tractor to complete field work with a tr...
Photograph

Kemp's 20th Century Manure Spreader

Date: 01 1907
Description: A Kemp's Manure Spreader is sits on a snow-covered loading dock of a brick building, possibly the McCormick Works factory. The side of the manure spreader ...
Photograph

Loading Dock and Train at Osborne Works

Date: 1907
Description: View down platform of train stopped at a loading dock at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). On the dock is a large stac...
Print

Trackpull Crawler Equipment

Date: 05 1926
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet for Trackpull crawler equipment for the Fordson tractor. The cover features a man using the Fordson tractor to pull a...
Print

Why Best Tractors are Tracklayers

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of an advertisement for Best tractors featuring a color illustration of a man using a plow pulled by two oxen to work in a field. The headline ...
Book or Pamphlet

Dependable Under All Conditions

Date: 1921
Description: Back cover of a pamphlet advertising 10-ton Caterpillar tractors. The headline reads: "Dependable Under All Conditions" and is illustrated with six photogr...
Print

Holt's Lightning Hay Knife

Date: 1881
Description: Front of advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man and young boy outside during winter. The man is using a Lightning Hay knife to cut the ha...
Photograph

1470 Hillside Combine

Date: 1979
Description: Left side view of two men posing standing on a platform next to the cab of a 1470 Hillside combine in a field.
Photograph

Corn Binder Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: Corn binder, with attachments and stalkers, set up on snow-covered cobblestones in front of brick factory buildings.

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