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Man Using Oliver Plow

Date: 1920
Description: Rear view of a man using an Oliver plow pulled by a team of two horses to work around a tree in a field. A railroad train is in the background.
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IH Kansas City Branch House

Date: 1925
Description: Train cars rest on tracks leading past International Harvester's Kansas City branch. Farm equipment stands on loading dock on the side of the building, and...
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International Harvester Branch House — Harrisburg

Date: 04 05 1925
Description: International Harvester Company branch building in Harrisburg. An automobile is parked along the curb in the front of the building and a railroad car rests...
Book or Pamphlet

Advance-Rumely Line

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Advance-Rumely line of agricultural equipment. Features a color illustration of men loading tractors and a threshi...
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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...
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McCormick No. 2 Harvester Thresher

Date: 03 19 1917
Description: Original caption reads: "McCormick No. 2 harvester-thresher. This model first built in 1916 was designed along lines similar to the Deering harvester-thres...
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McCormick No. 4 Harvester Thresher

Date: 06 14 1925
Description: Original caption reads: "McCormick No. 4 harvester-thresher as built for Argentine in 1925. This model was originally developed for the domestic trade in 1...
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McCormick No.10 Harvester Thresher

Date: 03 20 1927
Description: Original caption reads: "McCormick No. 10 harvester-thresher equipped with 16-foot solid platform. This machine has been the accepted heavy type machine so...
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Corn Binder Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: Corn binder set up on the cobblestones near a factory. In the background are railroad cars on railroad tracks in front of a fence. Behind the fence are ind...
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Two Men on a Horse-Drawn Reaper in Factory Yard

Date: 1900
Description: Man posing as if raking grain off bed of reaper. Replica of Reaper of 1848. Behind the men is a railroad car on railroad tracks, a fence, and buildings bey...
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Tractor at McCormick Works

Date: 06 03 1926
Description: View across factory yard towards a tractor hooked up to a harvester and another agricultural implement. There are railroad cars on elevated tracks in the b...
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Hay Stacker

Date: 10 17 1927
Description: Hay stacker outdoors in a factory yard. Factory buildings are in the background. Railroad cars are on an elevated track in the background on the left.
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McCormick-Deering Corn Binder

Date: 10 28 1927
Description: McCormick-Deering corn binder parked outdoors. Railroad cars are on elevated railroad tracks in front of factory buildings in the background. A sign above ...
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Man Driving Industrial Tractor

Date: 02 16 1928
Description: Right side profile view of a man driving an industrial tractor pulling a mower on a cobblestone street or yard. In the background are railroad cars with st...
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Horse-drawn Disc Harrow

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Description: Horse-drawn harrow on display by the railroad yard platform at the first machine works plant of Gisholt Machine Company, located at the 1400-block of East ...
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Tractor Disk Harrow (Exp)

Date: 05 20 1930
Description: Rear view of a disk harrow in a field hitched to a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor. There are rocks on top of the disk harrow for extra weight. There is an...
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#8A Tractor Disk Harrow (Exp)

Date: 10 02 1933
Description: Rear view of an experimental #8A tractor disk harrow hitched to a continuous track, TracTracTor, tractor in a field. Buildings are in the background beyond...
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Binder at McCormick Works

Date: 06 02 1906
Description: A McCormick binder is set up outdoors at McCormick Works.
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Man with Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 01 12 1906
Description: Text on photograph reads: "First Milwaukee Mower Built at McC Works Jan. 12, 1906."
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Sweep Rake

Date: 05 06 1910
Description: Sweep Rake outdoors in the yard at McCormick Works. In the background is a small, wooden sided building. In the background a man is working on the left nea...

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