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Oliver Chilled Plow Works Advertisement

Date: 1883
Description: Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f...
Poster

Industrial Safety Poster

Date: 1920
Description: Industrial safety poster or sign illustrated with a cream separator. The poster advocates employee safety at International Harvester's Weber Works. The sig...
Photograph

Loading Relief Tractors on Train

Date: 04 15 1925
Description: Men working on relief tractors on a flatbed railroad car for delivery to "tri-state tornado" victims.
Photograph

Men Loading Relief Tractors onto Truck

Date: 04 01 1925
Description: Men load relief tractors onto an International Harvester sales and service truck for delivery to victims of the "tri-state tornado." They appear to be movi...
Photograph

Men Working on Relief Tractor

Date: 04 01 1925
Description: Three men working on a McCormick-Deering 10-20 relief tractor. They are working in the street, and storefronts are behind them.
Photograph

Relief Directors on Tractors

Date: 04 01 1925
Description: Relief directors drive McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractors to plow a field.
Photograph

Relief Tractor Arrival

Date: 04 15 1925
Description: Men preparing newly arrived and unloaded McCormick-Deering relief tractors near railroad tracks. The tractors appear to be 10-20s.
Photograph

Relief Tractors

Date: 04 01 1925
Description: Men readying a line of McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractors for delivery for "tri-state tornado" victims. The tractors are parked in a row near what appears to...
Photograph

Relief Tractors

Date: 04 01 1925
Description: Men driving thirteen McCormick-Deering relief tractors down a dirt road for delivery to the victims of the "tri-state tornado." There are people watching f...
Photograph

Women on Relief Tractors

Date: 04 15 1925
Description: Two women using McCormick-Deering relief tractors in a field damaged by the "tri-state tornado." The tractors appear to be 10-20s.
Photograph

Man on Relief Tractor

Date: 04 01 1925
Description: A man using a McCormick-Deering relief tractor to work in a field affected by the "tri-state tornado." The tractor appears to be a 10-20.
Photograph

Men with McCormick-Deering Tractor

Date: 04 01 1925
Description: Three men posing around a McCormick-Deering tractor in front of a Mobiloil station on a road. The tractor appears to be a 10-20.
Photograph

Man in Tornado-Damaged Area

Date: 04 15 1925
Description: A man sitting on a McCormick-Deering tractor in a field. Buildings damaged by the "tri-state tornado" are in the background. The tractor appears to be a 1...
Photograph

Man Driving Relief Tractor

Date: 04 15 1925
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering relief tractor to drag metal pieces from a "tri-state tornado" damaged residential area. The trees along the street have bro...
Photograph

Group with McCormick-Deering Relief Tractor

Date: 1925
Description: A group of men gathering around a McCormick-Deering relief tractor in an area damaged by the "tri-state tornado." The tractor may be an 10-20.
Photograph

Men and Horses in Field Damaged by Tornado

Date: 1925
Description: Men and horses walk through an area damaged by the "tri-state tornado."
Photograph

Farm Dangers

Date: 08 1927
Description: A farmer is standing on the edge of a wooden wagon pitching hay into a running thresher, demonstrating an unsafe operating position.
Photograph

Grain Binder Hazards

Date: 07 1927
Description: A man is reaching into the moving packer arms of a grain binder, while another man is driving a team of horses pulling the machinery across a field at the ...
Photograph

Danger of Binder Reels

Date: 07 1927
Description: A man is reaching in between reels on a grain binder hitched to several horses on the farm of Peter Ricker.
Photograph

Children Too Near Grain Binder

Date: 07 1927
Description: Two children are walking closely behind a man operating a grain binder pulled by a team of four horses through a field, illustrating the dangers of standin...

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