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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1896
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. A small illustration at the top right is of a man using a horse-d...
Photograph

Farmers Grind Corn with International Harvester Equipment

Date: 12 10 1921
Description: Farmer and boy grinding feed with a McCormick-Deering belt-driven feed grinder and an International 8-16 tractor. Parked nearby are an International truck ...
Photograph

Farmer with Horse-Drawn Corn Planter

Date: 1916
Description: Farmer operating an International Harvester corn planter with fertilizer attachment drawn by two horses or donkeys. The photograph was taken for, or compil...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Corn Planters, Drills, and Cultivators Advertising Poster

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering corn planters, drills, and cultivators. Features color illustrations of a basket of corn and farmers using a horse...
Photograph

Farmer in Field with Horse-Drawn Corn Planter

Date: 06 16 1926
Description: Rear view of farmer LeRoy Hansen in a field with a horse-drawn McCormick-Deering corn planter.
Photograph

Farmers Shredding Corn

Date: 02 22 1938
Description: Farmers shredding corn with a McCormick-Deering belt-driven four-roll shredder run by a 10-20 tractor. Behind the tractor and on the right are horse-drawn ...
Photograph

Farmers Husking Corn

Date: 12 16 1935
Description: Farmers husking corn with a McCormick-Deering belt-driven Husker and Shredder run by a W-30 tractor on the farm of Earl Jones, Auld, Ontario, Canada.
Photograph

Farmers Operating Horse-Drawn Corn Binders

Date: 1900
Description: Farmers operating horse-drawn corn binders.
Photograph

Farmer Operating Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 12 26 1923
Description: Rear view of a farmer using a horse-drawn corn binder on the farm of E.E. Leatherby.
Photograph

Family in Carriages with Barn

Date: 1878
Description: Barnyard, with what appears to be a pigyard littered with corncobs. It is enclosed with a solid board fence and has slop troughs made from hollowed logs. A...
Photograph

Family Playing Croquet near Farmstead

Date: 1878
Description: A family is posed in farmstead front yard playing croquet and looking at a farmer on a horse-drawn sulky cultivator in cornfield.
Photograph

Herman Amberg Preus and Caroline Keyser Preus House

Date: 
Description: Wood frame house with carpenter's lace and family seated and standing to side of house in background. A windmill and small barn with cupola is in the right...
Photograph

Town of Moscow From Cornfield

Date: 1875
Description: View, through a cornfield, of people, a store, a sawmill and wagons. Moscow was platted in 1850 by an Englishman, Chauncy Smith, who dammed the Bluemound ...
Photograph

Osage Ceremony

Date: 
Description: An Osage woman prepares to be married to the corn. A man leads her horse.
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Corn Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1906
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Empire Corn Drills sold by International Harvester. Features an illustration of a man walking behind a horse-drawn corn...
Book or Pamphlet

Hoosier Corn Planters and Drills

Date: 1903
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Hoosier corn planters and drills manufactured by the American Seeding-Machine Company. The company was later purchased ...
Photograph

Corn Binder with Shocker

Date: 1902
Description: Four men stand next to a horse-drawn corn binder in a cornfield. A shock of corn is suspended in the air with a corn shocker. Two of the men have light-col...
Photograph

Mule Drawn Binder

Date: 1905
Description: Corn binder hitched to two mules in field in Algeria. In the distance are low hills. One bearded man, wearing what appears to be a full-length hooded jella...
Photograph

Corn Binder

Date: 
Description: Left side view of a farmer driving two horses pulling a corn binder.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Corn Picker

Date: 1915
Description: Farmers with a horse-drawn corn picker.

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