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Poster

Chattanooga Cane Mill Advertising Poster (Colombia)

Date: 1926
Description: South American advertising poster for Chattanooga brand cane mills showing men processing sugar in a tropical setting. Imprinted with "unicos importadores ...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Bindlochine Catalog Cover

Date: 1892
Description: Front cover of a catalog for the McCormick Bindlochine (grain binder). The color illustration features two small boys playing with a toy binder and horse m...
Photograph

International Harvester Engine

Date: 1923
Description: A man uses an International Harvester engine to power a saw. The man is cutting lumber while a child watches from the background.
Photograph

John Liegeois at Dutton Farm

Date: 1900
Description: John Liegeois at Dutton Farm. John had an identical establishment in Little Suamico. Joeseph Jr. and John and Louis Liegeois and Rachel were born in (Robi...
Photograph

Man Operating Mogul 15-30 Tractor

Date: 1915
Description: A man is operating a Mogul 15-30 tractor with a belt attached to its power take-off. A cart is parked behind the tractor, and is carrying a barrel labeled:...
Photograph

Group of Men and Boys Threshing

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men and boys threshing. They are using a tractor for a belt-driven threshing machine, and on the left two horses pull a wagon with large barrels.
Photograph

Man with Drill

Date: 
Description: Man posed squatting on a wooden floor holding a drill in his hand. He is next to a piece of farm machinery, possibly a manure spreader or cranberry picker ...
Photograph

People Posing Around Farm Machinery

Date: 
Description: People posing in field, with a barn in the background among trees. In the center a man, three women and a boy are standing in front of a wire fence. Behind...
Photograph

Men Operating Farm Machinery

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of men and boys operating a steam tractor used for belt-driven threshing machinery. Farm buildings are on the right, and one has a thatched r...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Advertisement

Date: 1900
Description: Advertisement from catalog featuring an illustration of the Jones Chain Mower, and a man using it in a field with a team of horses. Around the border are i...
Photograph

Mower Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: Mower set up on the cobblestones near a factory. In the background is a fence, and a small building, perhaps a guardhouse.
Photograph

Dump Rake Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: Dump rake set up on the cobblestones near a factory. In the background is a fence, and a small building, perhaps a guardhouse.
Photograph

McCormick Binder Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: McCormick binder set up on the cobblestones near a factory. In the background are railroad cars on railroad tracks in front of a fence. Behind the fence ar...
Photograph

Daisy Reaper Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: Daisy Reaper set up on the cobblestones in front of a brick factory building. In the background on the right is a horse standing near the curb.
Photograph

Mower Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: Mower set up on the snow-covered cobblestones in front of a brick factory building. In the background a man is standing on the wooden sidewalk near the doo...
Photograph

Daisy Reaper in Yard at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Daisy Reaper set up on cobblestones in the foreground. In the background is a guardhouse, and larger factory buildings beyond. A barefoot boy is standing a...
Photograph

Copy Photograph of Threshing Crew

Date: 
Description: A copy photograph of a threshing crew standing with wagon and threshing machine among cone-shaped haystacks.
Photograph

Harvesting Operation

Date: 1915
Description: View across field towards a large harvesting operation. On the far left is a large haystack. The thresher is belt-driven by a tractor in the right foregrou...
Photograph

Cultipacker in a Building

Date: 07 01 1914
Description: Cultipacker sitting inside a building.
Photograph

Disk Harrow

Date: 08 27 1927
Description: Disk harrow set up outdoors in a yard near buildings.

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