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Circus Performers Gather to View Eclipse

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Description: Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey circus performers gathered in front of a circus tent to view a solar eclipse. Some are wearing protective eyeglasses.
Photograph

Fishing Early in the Morning

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Description: Lawrence Martin and Will Hotchkiss fishing off a pier early in the morning.
Painting

Wisconsin Heights Battlefield

Date: 1856
Description: Painting by S.M. Brookes of the Wisconsin Heights Battlefield.
Photograph

Sailing

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Description: Three sailboats on Lake Winnebago, U50 (Eskimo), U7 and J7. Crew members are on the boats. The water is choppy and the sky is cloudy. In the background are...
Photograph

Farmer on McCormick-Deering Farmall H Tractor with Plow

Date: 1941
Description: Wayne Pattison working the fields of his two-hundred and eighty acre farm with a Farmall H tractor and a McCormick-Deering No. 7 disc plow. In the backgrou...
Photograph

Canoeing on Rainbow Lake

Date: 1945
Description: Couple canoeing under partly cloudy skies with sun dappling the water on Rainbow Lake, Chain O' Lakes.
Photograph

Farmall M Tractor and Disc Harrow

Date: 1949
Description: Color photograph of a farmer with a straw hat working a field using a Farmall M tractor with disc harrow against a bright blue sky strewn with fluffy white...
Photograph

Experimental Combine Harvesting Grain

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view of men harvesting grain with a McCormick-Deering 12 foot experimental combine (harvester-thresher) pulled by a Farmall M tractor. There is a ...
Print

Wisners Tiger — The King of Rakes

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Description: Chromolithograph advertisement for Wisner's Tiger Sulky Hay Rake, featuring a color illustration of a woman riding a hay dump rake pulled by a tiger. They ...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Front cover of a German language advertising catalog for International Harvester's Milwaukee line of harvesting machinery. Features a chromolithograph illu...
Photograph

McCormick Farmall Tractor H and Grain Drill

Date: 1950
Description: Farmers are unloading bags of seed from the back of an International L-series pickup truck in a field. A McCormick Farmall H tractor with attached grain dr...
Photograph

McCormick Farmall H Tractor with Mounted Cultivator

Date: 1948
Description: View towards a man in a field on a Farmall H tractor with a mounted cultivator, either at or near the company's experimental farm in Hinsdale.
Photograph

McCormick Farmall H Tractor and Grain Drill

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Description: View of a man in a field operating a McCormick Farmall H tractor with attached grain drill, either at or near the company's experimental farm in Hinsdale.
Photograph

McCormick Farmall C Tractor with Front-Mounted Cultivator

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man in a field operating a McCormick Farmall C tractor with front-mounted cultivator against a bright blue sky strewn with fluffy white clou...
Print

Springtime Air Conditioning Ad

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Description: "It's Always Springtime on the C&O," an advertising brochure issued by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad to publicize its status as the first railroad to air ...
Photograph

Farmall 450 Diesel Tractor

Date: 1957
Description: View of a man plowing a field with a McCormick Farmall 450 diesel tractor. Mountains are in the far background.
Photograph

220 Cotton Picker

Date: 1956
Description: Man harvesting cotton with a McCormick 220 cotton picker.
Photograph

Men on Cliff

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Description: View looking up at three men standing on top of a rock formation, possibly Gibraltar Rock. The men are silhouetted against the sky, with their right arms o...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog

Date: 1890
Description: Color catalog illustration of a farmer harvesting grain at night by moonlight with a horse-drawn grain binder. A farmhouse is in the background. Text at bo...
Book or Pamphlet

Chattanooga Plow Company Catalog

Date: 1918
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Chattanooga Plow Company of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Includes an illustration of a man with a horse-drawn walking pl...

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