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Poster

Machines Agricoles & Ficelle Deering

Date: 09 25 1925
Description: Advertising calendar for Deering brand farm machinery showing a French woman in a field with a basket and tilling tool. Printed by H. Brun, Paris, France.
Photograph

"You Can't Saw Wood with a Hammer"

Date: 1910
Description: Photo montage, with a sign reading "You can't saw wood with a hammer," along with a machine part, and a young man. The photograph may have been taken at In...
Magazine or Periodical

"International Harvester World: The Red Pylon... Symbol of Postwar Progress" Article Cover

Date: 03 1948
Description: The "International Harvester World" title page and cover image for the magazine edition and "International Harvester World: The red pylon... symbol of post...
Print

"Dealer News Prototype Progress Report - Minneapolis"

Date: 04 1948
Description: "Dealer News" article featuring three old and new International Harvester Minneapolis dealer locations. Six images total show the move from cramped, run-do...
Book or Pamphlet

"Pattern for Postwar"

Date: 10 1945
Description: "Pattern for Postwar: The Nation's Most Modern Farm Equipment Store," pp. 12-13 from "Tractor Farming" magazine, No. 2, Volume 28, 1945. The article discus...
Photograph

International Harvester Dealership

Date: 06 10 1924
Description: Two men standing at the counter of an International Harvester dealership. Posters and machine pamphlets are hanging in the background.
Poster

"Gambling With Fate" Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Industrial safety sign or poster featuring the "grim reaper" and advising factory workers to "be a booster for safety." The sign reads: "Gambling With Fate...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

North Vietnamese Rice Fields

Date: 1966
Description: Propaganda photograph of North Vietnamese women cultivating rice. The caption supplied with the photograph reads: "With the determination to defeat the U.S...
Photograph

Machinery on Display at "100 Years in Chicago"

Date: 1947
Description: Tractors and farm equipment on display at International Harvester's "100 Years in Chicago" celebration at Soldier Field. Original caption reads: "Partial v...
Photograph

Education and Training Center Interior

Date: 1946
Description: Interior view of International Harvester's Education and Training Center. Machinery parts and equipment are on display along the wall of a service and part...
Photograph

McCormick Anvil Block

Date: 1915
Description: Large stone identified as the anvil block upon which Cyrus McCormick built the first reaper. The stone is likely on the grounds of International Harvester'...
Photograph

Branch Manager with Honor Roll

Date: 1942
Description: S.E. Foster, manager of International Harvester's Little Rock branch house, stands beside the branch honor roll of enlisted International Harvester men. Al...
Photograph

Mowing Machine Hazards

Date: 07 1927
Description: A man is kneeling on the ground beside a mower hitched to two horses while performing repairs. An agricultural tool is lying on the ground beside him.
Photograph

Old Farm Machinery

Date: 04 23 1926
Description: Exterior view of a barnyard littered with old farm machinery and piled wood.
Photograph

Child Climbing Tree near Farm Equipment

Date: 04 28 1926
Description: A girl climbing on a felled tree branch lying across an upturned peg-toothed harrow.
Photograph

Farm Tool Arrangement

Date: 04 1926
Description: View of multiple farm implements organized against a wall inside a barn or shed at Cutten Farms.
Photograph

Man at Tool Cabinet

Date: 04 1926
Description: A man wearing a hat and denim jacket stands near a tool cabinet in a barn or workshop while looking through a drawer at Cutten Farms.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Wagon

Date: 03 1926
Description: A wagon hitched to two horses is standing alongside a dirt road as a man uses a hoe or shovel in the field to the left.
Photograph

Leaning Shed

Date: 03 1926
Description: A collapsing shed housing various pieces of farm machinery and wagons.

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