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Photograph

Rockdale Creamery

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery.
Poster

Chattanooga Chilled Plows Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Chattanooga chilled plows. Includes a color illustration of a man using a walking plow behind two horses as viewed...
Print

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...
Photograph

Famous Beverwyck Beer Delivery Truck and Wagon

Date: 07 24 1933
Description: International Model A-4 motor truck with a 185-inch wheel base, and a horse-drawn wagon hauling Famous Beverwyck Beer. The horse-drawn trailer contains bee...
Photograph

Horses Entering and Trucks Exiting McCormick Works Gate

Date: 10 09 1928
Description: A line of horses are entering the McCormick Works (factory) gate as a line of trucks and a tractor are exiting. The tractor appears to be an industrial tra...
Photograph

Man on Wagon with Milk Cans

Date: 1872
Description: A farmer driving a horse-drawn wagon with milk cans. Behind him is a frame structure, possibly a cheese factory, with a porch and a full door on the second...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Advertising Card

Date: 1886
Description: Inside of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company advertising card. Features color illustrations demonstrating the development of harvesting technology, in...
Photograph

Hay Press, Horse Powered

Date: 1905
Description: Horse hitched to a hay press near International Harvester's Champion Works. A sign on the factory reads: "International Harvester Co. Champion Division." T...
Photograph

Exterior of Berlin-Tempelhof Branch House

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view of several buildings with railroad tracks at International Harvester's Berlin-Tempelhof branch house in Germany. Trucks and a horse-drawn wag...
Photograph

Tractor Shipment at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1912
Description: Elevated view of tractors awaiting shipment parked in a grassy lot at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory. There are houses and commercial bu...
Photograph

Gwaltney and Bunkley Peanut Factory

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Description: Elevated view of the exterior of the factory, with men loading full sacks onto wagons pulled by horses. Caption reads: "A Busy Day, Gwaltney & Bunkley Pean...
Photograph

Winters and Prophets Canning Co. Factory

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Description: A view of the Winters and Prophets Canning Co. factory, with people near wagons loaded with bushels of apples in the foreground.
Painting

The Cheese Factory

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Description: Horse-drawn wagons, also known as milk buggies, dropping off cans of milk at the country cheese factory during summer.
Poster

Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner Factory

Date: 1901
Description: Lithographed poster depicting an elevated view of the Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner factory and surrounding area. Text in the upper left corner reads, "Ch...
Photograph

Plowing a Field

Date: 1914
Description: View along freshly upturned furrow in an open field. In the middle ground a team of three horses pulls a plow(?) through the field. Homes and factory build...
Photograph

Cheese Factory

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Description: Horses and wagons carrying aluminum barrels are standing outside the cheese factory. Workers pause from work to pose. Each worker wears overalls and a hat.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Chilled Plows Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering chilled plows. Features an illustration of an International Harvester factory, possibly the Canton W...
Print

Plankinton Packing Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Plankinton Packing Company, a pork and beef packer and provision dealer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Includes an elevated view of the company b...
Print

Century of the Reaper

Date: 1931
Description: Cover of the book "Century of the Reaper" by Cyrus McCormick III ("Cyrusie"). The cover includes a color illustration of the senior Cyrus McCormick testing...
Print

J.I. Case Plow Works Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the J.I. Case Plow Works of Racine, Wisconsin, with an elevated view of the company plant and a smaller scene set on a scroll of a man driving ...

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