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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...
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Back Cover of D.M. Osborne Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for Osborne harvesting machinery, featuring a color illustration of a man operating a horse-drawn corn binder.
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Fire Prevention, Safety Cartoon

Date: 1956
Description: Cartoon from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon appears under the heading: "Preparing the Tractor". The cartoon depicts an elderly m...
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Corn Picker Instructional Cartoon

Date: 1956
Description: Cartoon from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon depicts a person driving his vehicle very fast as corn and even tractor parts are be...
Photograph

Girl Sitting on Woman's Lap

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Description: A young girl pages through a book while sitting on a woman's lap. Another woman wearing gloves and a fur coat hands the sitting girl a book while another g...
Photograph

Butch Quirk uses Cub Cadet as Desk Top

Date: 04 1964
Description: Butch Quirk with a Cub Cadet tractor. Original magazine caption states: "Scientific farmer Quirk uses tractor hood as desk top as he records variety of cor...
Photograph

Agricultural Lecture

Date: 1919
Description: View from back of room of man standing at the front of a classroom to deliver an agricultural lecture to a group of seated men and women. There are bundles...
Photograph

"Rag Doll" Testing

Date: 1913
Description: Class of girls and teacher running a seed germination test ("rag-doll" test) in the classroom. The class is standing around a table, and are using a pail t...
Photograph

Group Gathered for "Corn is King" Lecture

Date: 1917
Description: Group of men and women seated on the front steps of a building (possibly a school) with corn cobs and other items used for an Agricultural Extension lectur...
Photograph

Danger of Silage Cutter

Date: 1926
Description: A man is working on silage cutter knives while the machine is in operation, demonstrating a farm hazard.
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Clogged Silo Filler Knives

Date: 10 04 1926
Description: A man is reaching into a running machine to clean clogged silo filler blades, demonstrating farm hazards on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental...
Photograph

Century Ownership Certificate

Date: 10 1978
Description: "Ken & LaVerne Schoebel proudly display a Century Ownership Certificate. The Schoebel family purchased the land in 1869."
Photograph

Corn Growing Champion

Date: 01 25 1960
Description: Wisconsin corn growing champion Larry Pluemer of Lancaster is shown at right with Bernard McGinley, Grant county farm and home development agent. Mr. Pluem...

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