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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

Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
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

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

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...
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 ...
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

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

Poster Illustrating Old and New Harvesting Methods

Date: 05 15 1928
Description: Poster or display board illustrating the differences between "old" and "new" methods of harvesting grain. Includes images illustrating harvesting methods b...
Photograph

McCormick Reaper of 1847

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using a team of two horses to pull a McCormick reaper in a field, while other women and men are raking the cut grain.
Photograph

Karst Family

Date: 1895
Description: Women bringing lunch to the men working in the field. The men are harvesting grain using a horse-drawn grain binder.
Photograph

Picking Cotton

Date: 
Description: Agricultural workers harvesting cotton, location unknown. Some of the workers are using horse-drawn plows. Two small buildings are in the distance. Caption...
Photograph

Picking Hops

Date: 
Description: Agricultural workers picking hops. The hops are being loaded into large wheelbarrow-like carts. Caption reads: "Hop Picking, Puyallup, Wash."
Photograph

Three Men with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men use a McCormick grain binder in a field overlooking a body of water, probably the Saint John River, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Men an...
Photograph

Harvesting with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Men use a McCormick grain binder to harvest a crop on a hill overlooking a valley. Town buildings are on a hill in the far background. Two women and two ch...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Cotton Harvester

Date: 1944
Description: Dorothy Hutchison operating a McCormick-Deering H-10-H cotton picker in a field. Stencils and/or decals are on the machine.
Photograph

Cranberry Growers

Date: 10 1984
Description: Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries.
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest Party

Date: 1885
Description: Large group of cranberry harvesters posing with implements. Many of the individuals are wearing boutonnières and corsages made from cranberry sprigs. Many ...

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