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Harvester-Thresher Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) showing a tractor-drawn harvester-thresher in a field under the slogan: "Once Over ...
Photograph

Experimental McCormick-Deering Combine and Farmall M Tractor

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view of men field testing an experimental McCormick-Deering 12 foot combine with a Farmall M tractor.
Print

Treading Grain with Horses

Date: 1885
Description: Back cover of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog from 1885. The illustration shows horses with elaborate tack treading grain surrounded by men ...
Print

Deering Trade Card

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising card for William Deering and Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment. Features a color illustration of men, women, and children in a f...
Photograph

Native Americans and Harvester-Thresher at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 07 25 1933
Description: Native Americans in traditional dress test a harvester-thresher (combine) in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's fai...
Photograph

Experimental Combine

Date: 1943
Description: Lee and Gray, International Harvester employees, and Fowler McCormick, looking at an experimental combine (harvester-thresher) in a field. A Farmall tracto...
Photograph

15-30 Tractor and Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1930
Description: A man uses a McCormick 15-30 tractor and No. 11 harvester-thresher in an unspecified non-United States location. The original caption reads: "Note that the...
Photograph

Experimental Harvester-Thresher

Date: 
Description: Side view of a man using an experimental No.127 SP harvester-thresher (combine) in a field. Mountains are in the far background. The original caption read...
Photograph

Farm Dangers

Date: 08 1927
Description: A farmer is standing on the edge of a wooden wagon pitching hay into a running thresher, demonstrating an unsafe operating position.
Poster

McCormick-Deering Threshers

Date: 1932
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering stationary threshers featuring a color illustration of an all-steel thresher at work in a field and illustrations ...
Photograph

123-SP Combine in a Field

Date: 1946
Description: Two men harvesting with a McCormick-Deering 123-SP harvester-thresher (combine) in a field.
Photograph

123-SP Combine and International Truck

Date: 1944
Description: Two women and a man with a McCormick-Deering 123-SP harvester-thresher (combine) and an International truck in a field.
Book or Pamphlet

"One-Man Combine" Brochure

Date: 1939
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure featuring an illustration of a Farmall tractor pulling a McCormick-Deering No.61 Harvester-Thresher, the "One-Man Combine ...
Print

Separation by Pitchfork

Date: 1918
Description: Illustration titled: "This is the Whole Story of Modern, Clean and Successful Threshing." The top section reads: "This is the way to Separate by hand with ...
Photograph

Thompson Foundry and Machine Shop

Date: 
Description: Large group of men posing standing by and sitting on farm machinery, including a thresher and steam tractors. Probably at the Thompson Foundry and Machine ...
Book or Pamphlet

Threshing Machines Pamphlet

Date: 1921
Description: Back cover of a pamphlet advertising Advance-Rumely threshing machines featuring a color illustration of farmers using a stationary thresher near a barn.
Book or Pamphlet

Geiser Thresher

Date: 1919
Description: Pamphlet advertising the Geiser No.4 and No. 5 thresher featuring a photograph of a man and dog beside the machine, and the cut-out shape of a tractor on t...
Photograph

Threshing in a Field

Date: 
Description: View across field towards a group of men working with threshing machinery.
Photograph

Experimental 12 ft Combine Self Propelled

Date: 1942
Description: Seven men in overalls and hats are standing on or near an experimental 12 ft self propelled combine in a field.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Self Propelled Combine Advertising Photo

Date: 09 10 1969
Description: Elevated view of five McCormick-Deering combines harvesting a field with hills. From an advertising series for the McCormick-Deering self-propelled combine...

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