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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
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| Description: | A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company, manufacturers of harvesting machinery. The cover features a framed inset of a scene of... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Bob Moses, Julian Bond, Curtis (Hayes) Muhammad, Willie Peacock, Hollis Watkins, Amzie Moore and E.W. Steptoe on Steptoe's farm. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two women dressed as farmers stand next to a Deering push binder with a cigar and a pipe in their mouths. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Lee and Gray, International Harvester employees, and Fowler McCormick, looking at an experimental combine (harvester-thresher) in a field. A Farmall tracto... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still from the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reap... |
| Date: | 07 31 1941 |
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| Description: | People gathered around a Farmall Regular tractor on the farm of Clarence L. Dauberman. Original caption reads: "Sydney G. McAllister, chairman, executive c... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A manager pays a field worker on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Mr. Monroe paying the field workers." |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A woman is sitting behind the wheel of a McCormick-Deering Farmall Cub tractor for a demonstration at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A man is standing in a field and stacks sheaves of grain. He is wearing a hat and is smoking a cigarette. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Women bringing lunch to the men working in the field. The men are harvesting grain using a horse-drawn grain binder. |
| Date: | 03 31 1927 |
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| Description: | Men use an International tractor to power a belt for work with hay. A ladder leans against a large haystack in the background with a sign reading: "Crop Dr... |
| Date: | 08 18 1922 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing and holding a bull and a cow on the farm of Jerry Bacon. An International Harvester cream separator is between the men, and a barn is ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe is sitting in a field on a mower drawn by two horses. A woman is posing in front of the horses wearing a dress and h... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Man with tethered calf and donkey near a farm building. In the background are fences and other livestock. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Group of men use a Titan tractor to power a silo filler. There are several wagons and a barn. A few of the men may be observers from International Harveste... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Men sit on a line of three McCormick grain binders hitched to a Mogul 25 h.p. tractor in a field. A young boy sits near a haystack in the foreground, and t... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men wearing long overcoats and hats are standing directly behind a large tractor or stationary engine being used to power a belt-driven ensilage cutter... |
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