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Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Poster

P&O Plows Advertising Poster

Date: 1927
Description: South African advertising poster for P&O plows, "made especially for South African conditions" and "sold by Champions Limited, Durban, Bloemfontein, East L...
Poster

Lily Cream Separators Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for Lily brand cream separators featuring a color illustration of a woman operating a hand crank cream separator. Below is a scene of co...
Poster

Gasoline Engine

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster of an International gasoline engine serving many functions, with an address for Budapest, Hungary. The poster was printed by the H...
Poster

Gasoline Engine

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster of an International gasoline engine serving many functions on the farm. Includes a large bird's-eye view of a farm, surrounded by ...
Book or Pamphlet

International Ensilage Cutters Catalog

Date: 1918
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International ensilage cutters, featuring an illustration of farmers using an ensilage cutter to fill a silo. At the bo...
Poster

International Tractor and Engine Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for International tractors and engines featuring an illustration of a farmer using a cultivator in a field beside a herd of cows. The ma...
Poster

Bluebell Cream Harvester Calendar

Date: 1913
Description: Calendar advertising International Harvester's Bluebell brand Cream Harvester (more commonly called a cream separator). Features a large illustration of tw...
Poster

IHC Gasoline Engine Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for International Harvester stationary, portable and traction engines. Features color illustrations of engines and tractors in a number ...
Photograph

Farmall B Tractor

Date: 10 20 1943
Description: Engineering photograph of right side of a Farmall B tractor parked in a dirt lot. Cows and an additional tractor are in a field in the background. The text...
Photograph

IH Demonstration Farm at Larimore

Date: 08 03 1923
Description: View of an International Harvester Company demonstration farm from across a dirt road. A farmhouse is to the right, and a barn and smaller buildings are ne...
Photograph

Farmhouse, Animals, and Family

Date: 
Description: View of a family posing near their farmhouse and animals. One woman rides a horse-drawn Bain-Wagon, from Bain works, established in 1882. A man stands in f...
Photograph

Man Loading Fertilizer onto Horse-Drawn Manure Spreader

Date: 04 18 1927
Description: A man wearing a hat loads a large bin of fertilizer, with the aid of an overhead pulley system attached to a barn, onto a manure spreader that is being pul...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Brochure

Date: 1938
Description: Cover of a McCormick-Deering brochure featuring corn shellers, feed grinders, hammer and roughage mills.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Cream Separator Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering cream separators, featuring a color illustration of a cream separator in the foreground and five cow...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Carriage and Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Men are posing around a horse-drawn grain binder while two women are looking on from a horse-drawn carriage. One of the men is holding a bicycle, and a far...
Print

Althouse, Wheeler & Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Althouse, Wheeler & Company of Waupun, Wisconsin, manufacturers of the Althouse & Raymond Wind Mill and the Waupun Patent Premium Pump. I...
Photograph

Men Driving Teams of Horses in a Field

Date: 1914
Description: Two men are using teams of horses to pull a hay rake on the left, and a mower on the right. There are farm buildings and cows beyond a fence in the backgr...
Photograph

Grain Binder and Cattle in Farm Field

Date: 1902
Description: Man with a horse-drawn grain binder in a field near a herd of cows. Farm buildings and a windmill are in the background.
Historical Object

McCormick Woodcut

Date: 
Description: Original woodcut created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. It has three sections and is connected using wood splines. An ...

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