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Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Poster

Osborne Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for Osborne brand farm implements showing a woman, child and dog enjoying a "group hug." Also includes color illustrations of a hay rake...
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Cream Separator Advertising Poster

Date: 1927
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Primrose ball-bearing cream separators featuring color illustration of a woman and two children operating a cream ...
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Osborne Farm Machines and Implements

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising calendar for Osborne brand farm implements showing two young boys tending a pot hanging over an evening fire.
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Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Advertising Poster

Date: 1900
Description: Advertising poster for the Champion grain binder produced by the Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company of Springfield, Ohio. Features a color illustration ...
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McCormick Advertising Poster

Date: 1902
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster for McCormick mowers and rakes. Features on the top half a young boy with a reaping hook/sickle and a young girl holdin...
Photograph

International "Red Baby" Truck Leaving Rural Farmstead

Date: 1923
Description: International "Red Baby" (model S) truck loaded with binder twine(?) and a stationary engine leaving a rural farmstead. In the background a woman holding a...
Photograph

International Harvester Lumber Camp

Date: 1910
Description: Housing for employees of logging and lumber operations associated with International Harvester. The housing consists of small one-room shacks in a wooded a...
Photograph

Child Laborers Bringing Fibre Down From Mountains

Date: 1910
Description: Procession of child laborers carrying bundles of twine fibre (fiber) down from the mountains in the Philippines. The fibre was likely used by International...
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Child Worker Removing Twine from Machine - Safety Screen Added

Date: 1910
Description: Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico.
Photograph

Child Worker Removing Twine from Machine

Date: 1910
Description: Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico. Accompanying text reads: "No guard...
Poster

Osborne Farm Machines and Implements

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster and January calendar for the Osborne disk harrow that "has long been the standard," featuring two boys cooking fish over a fire. I...
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Osborne Harvesting Machinery Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Russian advertising poster for International Harvester's Osborne line of farm equipment. Includes a large illustration of a woman and young girl with a dog...
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Osborne Harvesting Machinery Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster with many images of the Osborne line working the fields, and a mother and daughter with a dog. Imprinted with "International Harve...
Poster

Osborne Harvesting Machinery Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster with many images of the Osborne line working the fields, and a mother and daughter with a dog. Made by the Hayes Litho. Co. of Buf...
Photograph

Rockefeller and McCormick Families

Date: 1906
Description: Group portrait of Rockefeller and McCormick families. Pictured are (L to R): John D. Rockefeller, Sr., unidentified young man, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Sr...
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Men and Boys in front of Implement Dealer

Date: 1900
Description: A group of farmers and young children posing on a wooden platform or boardwalk in front of a farm implement dealership building, along with a horse-drawn m...
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Women and Young Girls Posing in Dresses and Hats

Date: 1907
Description: Outdoor group portrait of women and young girls posing in dresses and flowered hats in an urban area, perhaps near the McCormick Works Club House. There ap...
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McCormick Auto-Mower at Paris Exposition

Date: 1900
Description: Man sitting in a McCormick Auto-Mower in front of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company building at the Paris Exposition in France. Several men, a woman...
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Families Work in Deering Works Employee Gardens

Date: 
Description: Men, women and children dig and rake the soil at the Deering Works employee gardens. The gardens appear to be located in a residential neighborhood.

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