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African American Woman at Work in McCormick Works' Community Garden

Date: 07 1932
Description: African American woman tending to her plot in the McCormick Works' garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Harves...
Photograph

Woman and Girls in McCormick Works' Community Garden

Date: 08 1932
Description: Mother and her two daughters at work in the McCormick Works community garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Har...
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Corn Planters and Drills

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the Kentucky line of International Harvester corn planters and drills. Cover features an illustration of a farmer...
Photograph

Cutting Weeds

Date: 08 1929
Description: A man using a scythe to cut weeds from a pasture of wild carrots.
Photograph

Gardening

Date: 1943
Description: A gardener sprays a row of plants with a sprayer and metal container. The container likely holds pesticide.
Photograph

Garden Cultivating

Date: 1943
Description: A man uses a walking cultivator(?) to complete garden work.
Poster

McCormick 10-20 and 15-30 Tractors Advertising Poster

Date: 1938
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick 10-20 and 15-30 tractors. The poster features a color illustration of each of the tractors, and photographs of men using t...
Photograph

Muncie International Co.

Date: 1929
Description: Showroom of the Muncie International Company, an International Harvester dealership. The showroom includes a truck, furniture, a desk area, and farm equipm...
Photograph

Clearing Field for Sisal Planting

Date: 1949
Description: Several workers cut back brush with hand tools on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Clearing the field in prepa...
Photograph

Woman Operating International A Tractor at Military Base

Date: 1942
Description: A woman uses an International Model A tractor to mow grass on the side of a hill at Camp Pendleton. In the background is an encampment of tents set up at t...
Photograph

Seven Ho-Chunk Men in Field

Date: 1920
Description: Outdoor group portrait of seven Ho-Chunk men standing outdoors in a cranberry bog, They are holding the hand scoops used to harvest cranberries. The long n...
Photograph

Round Barn

Date: 11 25 1961
Description: View of a round barn along Highway K. Farm equipment and another farm building are on the left. Fields and hills are in the background.
Photograph

Central International Gladiolus Show

Date: 08 02 1950
Description: Professor James H. Torrie, 37-D, University Houses, is pictured spraying his gladioli garden in preparation for the Central International Gladiolus Society...
Photograph

Sloping Farmland

Date: 05 17 1966
Description: View uphill towards a farmer planting crops on a treeless slope which rises just beyond him, with a cloudy sky above. Various grasses are growing in the fo...
Photograph

Winnebago County Asylum Farm

Date: 1930
Description: View over fence of a man wearing a hat using a tilling tool in a garden presumably belonging to the Winnebago County Asylum farm.
Photograph

Farmall Tractor Equipped with Lift

Date: 07 23 1941
Description: Farmall A(?) tractor equipped with a lift-all loader in a driveway. In the background automobiles are parked in a parking area.
Photograph

Cluttered Farm Yard

Date: 05 1926
Description: Farm yard littered with parts of old farm machines, wagons and other items, farm buildings and an automobile.
Photograph

Mower in a Field

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man on a mower driving a team of two horses to work in a field. In the distance are a number of houses on the side of a large hill.
Photograph

Teachers Constructing Germination Box

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers working outdoors using tools to construct a sawdust germination box for corn.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Mower

Date: 03 09 1933
Description: Front view of a McCormick-Deering mower on dirt road with decal below seat.

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