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International Harvester "Prospy" Advertising Poster

Date: 1909
Description: Advertising poster showing a little man with a corn cob body, a shield in the shape of the International Harvester logo, and a spear made of a stalk of gra...
Book or Pamphlet

Guarding the Cornfields

Date: 1884
Description: Indian women standing on platforms make noise to scare birds from the cornfield.
Photograph

Camera Crew Films Farmers Harvesting Corn

Date: 09 20 1928
Description: Camera crew from the Cloud County Farm Bureau filming farmers harvesting corn with a Farmall tractor. An International truck used by the crew is parked to ...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Mower, Reaper and Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring an engraving of boys marching under a benner of "Vic...
Photograph

Lars Davidson Reque's Farm with Men and Boys

Date: 
Description: In this tableau, men and boys stand at the edge of the field in elaborate and fanciful poses. The man on the left holds a hoe and cake while the one on the...
Photograph

Church across Cornfield

Date: 1874
Description: View across a cornfield towards the left side of a frame church. There is elaborately patterned shingling on the steeple. Men are posing in and near open w...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Our Barn is Full

Date: 1912
Description: Several women and a man are outside of a barn, which is overflowing with giant onions, corn, and potatoes. A ladder is placed against the large stack of on...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: A Carload of Corn

Date: 1909
Description: Photomontage of flatbed train car holding a giant corn cob. Additional train cars and tracks visible in the background. Red text in the upper left corner r...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Bringing in the Sheaves

Date: 1908
Description: Photomontage of a farm scene with giant produce. A man and a woman stand on top of a giant ear of corn, resting on a horse-drawn cart. Around them are mor...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Beating the Coal Trust

Date: 1912
Description: Photomontage of a man sawing a giant ear of corn as though it was a log. Beside him an ax is wedged in a stump-like piece of corn. A mound of giant ears ...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Overloaded

Date: 1912
Description: Photomontage of a horse carrying a bundle of giant ears of corn on its back. A boy is struggling to pull the horse towards the side of the road. A young ...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: A Heavy One

Date: 1908
Description: Photomontage of a giant ear of corn resting on a flatbed wagon. The ear is so heavy that is has broken the hitch, and the driver is going to assess the da...
Print

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...
Print

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

Cornfield and Cemetery

Date: 09 1967
Description: View over cornfield of a cemetery on the side of a hill surrounded by a fence. On the hill behind the cemetery are more cornfields.
Photograph

25 Foot Tall White Pearl Corn

Date: 1909
Description: View of a man standing on a ladder, using an axe on a stalk of white pearl corn which is claimed to be 25 feet tall, somewhere in Georgia. A field is in th...
Photograph

Agricultural Extension Lecture

Date: 1932
Description: Adults sitting in chairs in a classroom to hear an agricultural extension lecture given by a man standing behind a table or podium at the front of the room...
Photograph

Lesson at Mount Prospect High School

Date: 1917
Description: View from the back of a classroom towards a teacher holding an ear of corn while standing near a chalkboard which reads: "Mt. Prospect Twp. High School, Mt...
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Farmall Corn Picker Brochure

Date: 1938
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for a mounted corn picker for the F-12 tractor. Features a cartoon drawing of two birds and two ears of corn staring at a ...

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