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Deering Grain Binder Advertising Poster

Date: 1883
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration for the Deering All-Steel Binder with steel bundle carrier, produced by William Deering & Co. Includes an illustration ...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Photograph

W.L.L. & T. Logging Operations

Date: 02 1914
Description: Two men dressed in business attire stand in the snow in front of logs cut as part of W.L.L. & T. logging operations.
Photograph

Train Hauling Tobacco

Date: 
Description: Men standing on top of, and around, a train carrying tobacco. A sign on the side of each car reads, "This car contains tobacco used in making Old Virginia ...
Print

Scout V-8 Advertising Booklet

Date: 1967
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the International Harvester Scout V-8 truck. Color photograph shows two Scout vehicles with men driving through snow i...
Photograph

Payday for Field Workers on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: A manager pays a field worker on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Mr. Monroe paying the field workers."
Photograph

Children Riding Mules on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: Four young boys ride mules in a field on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Agricultural laborers are in the background. Original caption...
Photograph

Workers in Line to Receive Pay on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: A line of workers forms in front of a table on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. The workers are waiting to collect their payroll checks...
Photograph

Young Woman in Clearing

Date: 
Description: A portrait of a young woman wearing a hat and dress, and holding a bouquet of flowers, standing in a clearing. In the background is the darkroom horse-draw...
Photograph

Border Lake Outfitters

Date: 
Description: Border Lakes Outfitting Company, Sigurd Olson's summer business that provided guides and equipment for wilderness vacations.
Photograph

IH Demonstration Farm at Gull Lake

Date: 12 1928
Description: Cameramen staging a shot of a man and woman on a Farmall Regular tractor in front of farmhouse at an International Harvester demonstration farm in Gull Lak...
Photograph

Young Man Sitting on Hay Rake

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a young man sitting on a horse-drawn dump rake pulled by a team of horses. In the background are hills.
Photograph

Filling Station at Old Newport Resort on Lower Dells

Date: 1929
Description: Filling station with attendant standing outside near two pumps. There is a stand with signs advertising Old Gold cigarettes, 5 cent vegetable sandwiches, P...
Photograph

Selling Peaches

Date: 1923
Description: A customer offers payment for fruit to a woman sitting at a small desk inside an orchard shed. Multiple rows of bushel baskets filled with peaches are line...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Farm Machine Brochure

Date: 1936
Description: McCormick-Deering Farm Machine brochure imprinted with the dealership name of Polson Implement Co., Seattle, Washington. Features a photograph of a man ope...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Farmall 12 Brochure

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of a brochure for a McCormick-Deering F-12 tractor, featuring new quick attachable machines. Includes a photograph of a man plowing a field with an F...
Photograph

WPA at Work

Date: 1937
Description: National Youth Administration workers cutting stone in the quarry near the Grignon House. A sign behind the group of boys says: USA Work Program."
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Tillage Tools Brochure

Date: 1938
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering tillage tools. Features a photograph of a disk plow pulled by a Farmall tractor. Caption reads: "McC...
Print

Cover of McCormick-Deering 1939 Calendar

Date: 1938
Description: "Your 1939 Calendar" published for International Harvester farm equipment dealers. The cover features a painting of the Swiss Alps.
Print

McCormick Advertisement — "Take It Cool"

Date: 1897
Description: An advertisement designed with images of three hand fans decorated with scenes of farmers using McCormick farming machinery. A ribbon across the bottom car...

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