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Poster

"Free Tractor School" Advertising Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster advertising a free tractor school sponsored by the International Harvester Company. Includes a black and white illustration of a Titan 1...
Photograph

Employee(?) Instruction at St. Paul Flax and Twine Mill

Date: 1930
Description: Employees(?) learning about a chain drive gear at the St. Paul Flax and Twine Mill. Portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and an advertising p...
Photograph

Alexander Legge

Date: 12 03 1930
Description: Alexander Legge (1866-1933) sitting with Miss Florence Melchert, an "entertainment" provided by International Harvester for 4-H Club delegates. Miss Melch...
Photograph

Tractor School Students in Classroom

Date: 02 13 1925
Description: Men seated in a makeshift classroom for an International Harvester "tractor school" session at A&M Motor and Implement Co. Charts illustrating the use of t...
Photograph

New Female Employee Training

Date: 01 13 1943
Description: A group of recently hired factory female workers receive their first day of training at an International Harvester factory. The factory was responsible for...
Photograph

Female Students in Evening Class

Date: 12 10 1919
Description: Women pose at their desks in an evening class. Three women (teachers?) stand in the back. Mathematical equations are written on the blackboards in the ba...
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Osborne Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1904
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Osborne line of harvesting machinery. The illustration shows a man with spectacles and g...
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of D.M. Osborne Catalog

Date: 1899
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne and Company showing a schoolmaster in front of men from many nations. Includes the caption "all natio...
Photograph

Reaper Centennial Celebration

Date: 1931
Description: A group of children and adults gathers around an International truck carrying a replica of McCormick's original reaper. The reaper replicas were made for t...
Photograph

International Harvester Exhibits at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 08 1933
Description: Slightly elevated view of the Kankakee High School band that is playing in the background as a crowd gathers around International Harvester exhibits at the...
Photograph

Apprentice Classroom at McCormick Works

Date: 1949
Description: A group of young men receive instruction in the apprentice classroom at McCormick Works.
Photograph

Reaper Replica Demonstration

Date: 1930
Description: A man, possibly Cyrus McCormick III, demonstrating a reaper replica to a group of onlooking 4-H Club members.
Photograph

4-H Club Parade Float

Date: 1930
Description: A group of young women at an International Harvester factory (most likely McCormick Works) ride on a parade float reading "Welcome 4-H Club Champions, Inte...
Photograph

School Milk Cooler

Date: 11 02 1936
Description: A man loads a milk can into a McCormick-Deering milk cooler at the State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children.
Photograph

National 4-H Farm Accounting Winner

Date: 06 27 1936
Description: Presentation of a Farmall F-12 tractor to Robert Parmele, the 4-H Farm Accounting contest winner at the Mississippi Valley Fair Grounds. Left to right: S.A...
Photograph

Interior of Schoolhouse on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: An interior view of "the village school" on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. A teacher stands while a classroom full of students sit at...
Photograph

Teacher and Students on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: Students and teacher lined up outside a school building on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "School teacher and...
Drawing

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...
Photograph

Jim Brosnahan at Tifton

Date: 06 1962
Description: Jim Brosnahan instructs a class of International Harvester salesmen on the company farm at Tifton. International Harvester offered classes on the farm in o...
Photograph

International Harvester Employees with Competitor's Plow

Date: 1962
Description: Instructor Jim Brosnahan (left, with foot on plow) gathers around a Kewaunee plow with International Harvester employees to study it at an International Ha...

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