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Flail Thrashing Machine

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Description: Drawing of a man threshing grain with a flail thrashing machine.
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Components of a Manure Spreader

Date: 1922
Description: Illustration of the gears and components at the end of a manure spreader.
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The Record of the McCormick

Date: 1884
Description: Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration used in a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Includes illustrations of a farmer using a horse-drawn gra...
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No. 4 Steel Mower

Date: 1886
Description: Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration used in a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Includes illustrations of a horse-drawn hay rake and a hay...
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Six Decades of Progress 1831-1891

Date: 1890
Description: Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration for a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Includes illustrations of McCormick's "first" reaper and McCor...
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The McCormick Big 4 Steel Mower

Date: 1890
Description: Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration for a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Includes an illustration of a well-dressed farmer operating a ...
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The Sunrise of Agricultural Prosperity

Date: 1890
Description: Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration for a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Features a drawing of men holding grain cradles in a wheat fie...
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Daddy's McCormick

Date: 1890
Description: Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration for a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Features a drawing of a school boy at a desk holding a chalk b...
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Threshing

Date: 1945
Description: A threshing scene in a field. One man pitches grain into a threshing machine while standing on the load of grain in the wagon pulled by two horses. A secon...
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Cutaway of Combine

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Description: Drawing of a combine on a white background. The view is three-quarters from left front of combine.
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Sketch of the #181 self propelled combine (1961)

Date: 06 16 1959
Description: Black and white development sketch for the McCormick-Deering #181 combine.
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Ellis and Steward Motor for Harvesting Machinery Patent Cover

Date: 02 16 1897
Description: Patent No. 577,105, Patented February 16, 1897 by G.H. Ellis and J.F. Steward. Page one of two.
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Ellis and Steward Motor for Harvesting Machinery Patent Page Two

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Description: Patent No. 577,105, Patented February 16, 1897 by G.H. Ellis and J.F. Steward. Page two of two.
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"Testing of First Reaper at Steele's Tavern"

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Description: "Testing of First Reaper at Steele's Tavern." Second version illustrating occasion.
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Engraving of Large Farm Binding Operation

Date: 1858
Description: Elevated view of a large farm binding operation. Men are working in a field in the left foreground. Farm buildings and a farmhouse are across the road.
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Filling Haymow with Thresher

Date: 08 25 1928
Description: View across barnyard towards men using a thresher near a barn. A tractor in the yard on the left is belt-driving the thresher to fill the haymow. There is ...
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Filling Haymow

Date: 08 22 1928
Description: View towards men using a thresher to fill a haymow in a barn. A tractor is belt-driving the thresher.
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Disk Harrow Disassembled for Shipping

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Description: Disk Harrow disassembled for shipping, with parts and gangs displayed on the floor and also against a backdrop.

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