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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Three illustrations from an 1883 McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog portraying the evolution of the reaper. The first drawing is captioned: "Four... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Page from an 1886 McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog showing early harvesting technology. One drawing depicts a farmer in India harvesting grain ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Front of a card advertising the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Illustrations show "primitive" harvesting methods alongside a McCormick binder and a ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Inside of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company advertising card. Features color illustrations demonstrating the development of harvesting technology, in... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising catalog for grass cutting machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features an illustration of small children an... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s... |
| Date: | 1834 |
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| Description: | Threshing of grain by horse power, US patent. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | An advertisement for the McCormick No. 4 Steel Mower in the December edition of The Farmer's Advance, a publication of the McCormick Harvesting Mach... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Cartoon on the last page of a McCormick catalog. The cartoon depicts the World's Fair field-trials in Wayne, Illinois, at which the McCormick mower prevail... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Three men and a horse standing in front of a blacksmith shop which has a sign above the doorway advertising M. Karger and Brothers Clothing and Furnishing ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A group of men in suits, presumably foremen or supervisors, and several men in work clothes, are in a grain field. Most of the men in suits are either sitt... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A group of five men are standing and sitting around a McCormick grain binder. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Flags hanging above a McCormick Harvesting Machine display at what is possibly the World's Columbian Exposition (The World's Fair of 1893). A painting of a... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A man is operating a McCormick wire binder driven by two horses. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A group of men are using a McCormick wire grain binder led by two horses to harvest a field crop. A horse-drawn carriage is in the background. The original... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Women bringing lunch to the men working in the field. The men are harvesting grain using a horse-drawn grain binder. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the McCormick Combined Reaping and Self-Binding Machines, as manufactured by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company [or possibly C.H. a... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Official copy of Cyrus McCormick's 1834 reaper patent. This copy was made by the Patent Office at the request of the McCormick family. |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Territorial seal of Wisconsin. There is a farmer in the foreground plowing behind horses, a Native American apparently heading west, a river steamboat and ... |
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