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Chinese Advertising Calendar

Date: 1928
Description: Chinese advertising calendar produced for the International Harvester Export Company. Features color illustrations of Chinese and American flags, dragons, ...
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Children with Lecturer

Date: 1924
Description: At Louisiana State University, an instructor lectures a group of children on agriculture using charts prepared by International Harvester Company. The lect...
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Rural School Health Parade and Festival

Date: 05 1928
Description: School children and teachers from Lemont township marching in a rural school festival parade. The children are dressed in white cloaks and hats bearing a m...
Photograph

International Model E Truck with "Prosperity" Display

Date: 1916
Description: International Model E highwheeler truck adorned with American flags, advertising banners, and a statue of a sprite named "Prospy." "Prospy" was a little ma...
Photograph

Harrison Street Community Garden

Date: 04 1917
Description: Children working in an urban community garden. Original caption reads: "Scene in Harrison Street Community Garden showing each plot staked off. Up to 1917 ...
Photograph

Trolley Car Pulling Flat Car Carrying McCormick Binder and Mower

Date: 1899
Description: Group of people posing on a trolley car, which is pulling a flat car loaded with a McCormick grain binder and mower as part of an event culminating the "Cr...
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McCormick Dealership at Gefle, Sweden

Date: 1899
Description: Employees of a McCormick dealership and family members under the awning of a display pavilion with a mower, grain binder, hay rake, and other farm machiner...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of Christopher Columbus and hi...
Photograph

Men Planning for World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: International Harvester dealer Charles Landaal signs a pledge to help collect scrap as part of Governor Julius P. Heil's "MacArthur Week" scrap drive. Milw...
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Land Clearing Train

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Description: View across field towards the Land Clearing Special Train, a program sponsored by the University of Wisconsin's Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Depa...
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IH Exhibit at Plowing Contest

Date: 1955
Description: Elevated view of International Harvester's exhibit of agricultural machinery at the Wabash plowing contest. Includes a Farmall 400 tractor (with Electrall?...
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100,000th International Farmall Celebration

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view over crowd towards an executive who is speaking to workers assembled by the receiving department at Farmall Works to celebrate the 100,000th ...
Photograph

Milk Booth at the State Fair

Date: 1950
Description: The Department of Agriculture's "All You Can Drink for Ten Cents" milk booth at the Wisconsin State Fair. On the roof is a cow crafted from a bale of hay. ...
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Railroad Depot

Date: 
Description: Men approaching a train at the railroad depot carrying farm machinery from the J.I. Case Company.
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Farmers Club Meeting

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Description: Community Fair of the Bashaw Valley Farmers Club. E.L. Lutcher, head of the farmers institutes program of the agricultural extension, described the area a...
Photograph

Fruits and Flowers Building

Date: 1935
Description: The Fruits and Flowers Building at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Twine Clock

Date: 05 1930
Description: Spectators gather around a clock tower constructed of twine at the exhibition of the German Agricultural Society in Cologne, Germany. The exhibition took p...
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Men Outside of Barclay & Son Wholesale Store

Date: 1910
Description: Two men standing on the sidewalk outside of the Barclay & Son Wholesale and Retail store. Another man is sitting in what is possibly an International H-21 ...
Photograph

Tractor Exhibit

Date: 1919
Description: Two men look over a tractor called the Indiana, while behind them a group gathers in front of a large Illinois Master Drive 3-4 Plow Tractor of America ten...
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Avery Tent at Tractor Exhibit

Date: 1919
Description: A large white tent marked with multiple signs reading: "Avery." Other signs advertise for the "Ross Alfalfa Hay Cutter and Syrup Mixer" and the "Ross Silo ...

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