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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 ...
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Groundskeeper Rakes Sand Trap with Cub Cadet

Date: 02 1969
Description: Groundskeeper raking a golf course sand trap with an International Cub Cadet tractor. A group of men are playing golf in the background. The photograph was...
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Radio-Controlled Farmall F-30 Tractor

Date: 1931
Description: Operator J.J. Lynch inspects the wiring on a radio-controlled McCormick-Deering Farmall F-30 tractor at a fair.
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Men on Horses in Barnyard

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Description: Two men are on horseback near a man sitting on a dump rake in a barnyard with the barn in the background. Another man is standing near a horse on the right...
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Family Playing Croquet near Farmstead

Date: 1878
Description: A family is posed in farmstead front yard playing croquet and looking at a farmer on a horse-drawn sulky cultivator in cornfield.
Print

Consolidated Implement Company Farm Equipment Competition Flyer

Date: 1895
Description: Flyer advertising a contest wherein the Consolidated Implement Company of Utah and Idaho planned to give away a McCormick Binder, McCormick Mower, and "Ste...
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Farm Implement Exhibits

Date: 1909
Description: The farm implement exhibit area, in which displays of the International Harvester Company and the J.I. Case Plow Works can be seen.
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Hungarian Wheat Festival

Date: 08 09 1942
Description: Two couples in Hungarian costumes, one man holding a scythe (kasza), admiring a sheaf of wheat in a wheat field. The twig tied to the scythe in a triangle ...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne World's Fair Souvenir

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back of an advertising folder produced by the D.M. Osborne Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features illustrations of a young gi...
Photograph

Golf Course Maintenance

Date: 1938
Description: A man uses a rubber-tired Fairway 12 tractor with a Roseman mower attachment to care for golf course terrain. Two men are working in the background.
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McCormick-Deering Fairway 12

Date: 05 17 1934
Description: Ralph Teter, groundskeeper of the Aurora Country Club, sits on a McCormick-Deering Fairway 12 tractor.
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Indian Head Golf Club

Date: 1932
Description: A groundskeeper uses a McCormick-Deering Fairway tractor to care for the golf course at Indian Head Golf Club. A group of people are playing golf in the ba...
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Monroe Country Club

Date: 10 05 1928
Description: A groundskeeper uses a Fairway tractor to care for the rough of the Monroe Country Club golf course while a group of golfers plays in the background.
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Groundskeeper on Tractor at Golf Course

Date: 05 26 1928
Description: A groundskeeper uses a Fairway tractor to maintain the grounds of what appears to be a golf course.
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Tractor and Golfer on Golf Course

Date: 05 26 1928
Description: A man on a Fairway tractor with a mower waits while a golfer tees off at a golf course.
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Aurora Country Club

Date: 09 12 1924
Description: A groundskeeper uses a Farmall (or Fairway?) tractor with a roller to tend the golf course at Aurora Country Club.
Photograph

International Harvester Display

Date: 06 02 1933
Description: Replica of Cyrus McCormick's original 1831 reaper on display in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair. Scale mode...
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Interior of IH Building at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 06 02 1933
Description: Tractors, agricultural machinery and trucks on display inside International Harvester's exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair.
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Cream Separator Display at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 06 02 1933
Description: Cream separators on display in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair.
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Dairy Display at "A Century of Progress"'

Date: 06 02 1933
Description: Cream separators, milkers and a mechanical cow on display in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair. Caption in "T...

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