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Poster

McCormick "Back from the War" Advertising Poster

Date: 1899
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster for the McCormick grain binder showing a father, young girl, and a dog welcoming a returning Spanish-American War soldi...
Photograph

Farmers Harvesting Grain with McCormick Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: European farmers and young boy harvesting grain with horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field in front of a large mansion or institutional complex.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
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...
Photograph

Family and Workers in Field

Date: 1895
Description: A large family group and workers pose in field in front of farming machinery and haystacks.
Photograph

International Harvester Engine

Date: 1905
Description: Early International Harvester engine, probably a Titan, powering an elevator to lift silage into a silo. Two men in overcoats and two children in overalls...
Photograph

Tractor Demonstration on the H.R. Clark Farm

Date: 08 13 1927
Description: Two men, one of them possibly H.R. Clark, sitting with two boys on a tractor. All of them are wearing overalls and floppy hats.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Milwaukee Grain Binder

Date: 1915
Description: Two men and a child, all wearing hats, are at the back of a Milwaukee grain binder. One man is standing with a cradle in his hands. An older man with a bea...
Photograph

McCormick Wire Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A group of farmers are using a McCormick wire grain binder, built in 1876. A horse-drawn carriage is in the background. The original caption reads: "The im...
Photograph

Man and Girl with McCormick Milkers

Date: 1937
Description: A man crouches beside a McCormick single-unit milker outside a barn, while a young girl standing next to him holds the tubes of another milker in her hands...
Photograph

Man and Boy on Manure Spreader in Field

Date: 1911
Description: Man and boy (possibly father and son) on farmland near a cornfield operating a horse-drawn No. 3 Clover Leaf manure spreader. A barn is in the background.
Photograph

Children Too Near Grain Binder

Date: 07 1927
Description: Two children are walking closely behind a man operating a grain binder pulled by a team of four horses through a field, illustrating the dangers of standin...
Photograph

Corn Harvest at IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 1924
Description: Men on an International Harvester demonstration farm are feeding corn into a husker-shredder as a boy is holding a burlap bag to the machine to catch the k...
Photograph

4-Row Corn Planter Demonstration

Date: 04 28 1932
Description: A group of men, women, and children are standing in a field at an International Harvester Company farm to watch a 4-row corn planter demonstration.
Photograph

Batterman Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: David and Kathy Batterman live at N9248 Sunnyview Rd (Section 7). Son, Scott, and his children, Ryan and Grace, pose with Dave and Kathy. Herb and Linda (...
Print

Russian McCormick Advertisement

Date: 1912
Description: Front cover of a Russian booklet advertising McCormick agricultural machinery. The cover features an illustration of a woman and child standing in front of...
Book or Pamphlet

J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company Advertisement

Date: 1925
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company's line of tractors. The cover features a color illustration of a farmer using ...

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