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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...
Photograph

N.C. Wyeth Depiction of McCormick Reaper Demonstration

Date: 1931
Description: Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh...
Photograph

IHC Gas Engine Exhibit

Date: 1911
Description: Exhibit tent featuring International Harvester gasoline engines. One engine is powering a board of light bulbs as men mill around and tend to the exhibit t...
Photograph

IHC Gas Engine Exhibit

Date: 1911
Description: Exhibit tent featuring International Harvester's gasoline engines. Men and women are milling around the tent. One woman is sitting in an International Auto...
Photograph

Osborne Wagon Exhibition

Date: 09 1910
Description: Crowd gathered under a tent to view the new line of Osborne wagons at International Harvester's Osborne Division exhibit at the New York State Fair, Septem...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for harvesting machinery made by the Plano Manufacturing Company. Features a color illustration of a woman on a stage crown...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Fair Tractor Exhibit

Date: 09 12 1935
Description: A crowd of spectators looks at a McCormick Farmall tractor on display at the Wisconsin State Fair. The tractor is an F-12.
Photograph

Wichita State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: A crowd gathers underneath a tent near an International Harvester sign and farm machines at the Kansas State Fair. The sign on the building in the backgrou...
Photograph

Nebraska State Fair Tent

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of a group of Nebraska State fairgoers gathered in the International Harvester tent to watch a film. Advertising pennants hang from the tent'...
Photograph

Cream Separator Display at Indiana State Fair

Date: 1929
Description: Fairgoers gather around the McCormick-Deering ball-bearing cream separator display at the Indiana State Fair.
Photograph

Information Repair Service Booth at Indiana State Fair

Date: 1929
Description: International Harvester's "Information and Repair Service" booth stands at the Indiana State Fair.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Fair Exhibit

Date: 1932
Description: A cow standing on a platform is used to demonstrate a McCormick-Deering milker in the International Harvester tent at the Wisconsin State Fair. A display ...
Photograph

Babcock Ceremony

Date: 1928
Description: Crowd seated on the lawn of Agriculture Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a ceremony honoring S.M. Babcock, inventor of the butter test.
Photograph

IH Display at German Agricultural Society Exhibition

Date: 05 1930
Description: Display area of International Harvester's Neuss branch house at the Exhibition of the German Agricultural Society, Cologne, Germany, (May 27-June 1). Equip...
Photograph

Red Progress Days Demonstration with 5488 and 6588

Date: 
Description: Color photograph of what may be a Red Power Days demonstration with a 5488 tractor and a 6588 tractor. Onlookers are standing in the background.
Photograph

Crowd at State Fair

Date: 1935
Description: A crowd of onlookers gathers underneath a tent to watch a demonstration of a Farmall F-12 tractor with a single front wheel at the Wisconsin State Fair. O...
Photograph

International Harvester Display at Missouri State Fair

Date: 1935
Description: People gather around displays of International Harvester equipment set up beneath a tent at the Missouri State Fair.
Photograph

Crowd with Dairy Equipment Display at Indiana State Fair

Date: 1935
Description: A crowd of people gathers in the McCormick-Deering dairy equipment display tent at the Indiana State Fair. The sign hanging from the ceiling reads: "McCorm...
Photograph

Binder Twine Making Machine Display

Date: 1935
Description: A crowd of people gathers around a McCormick-Deering binder twine-making machine for a demonstration beneath a tent at the Indiana State Fair.
Photograph

Oxen at Eastern States Exposition

Date: 1935
Description: A team of oxen pulls a pallet of what appear to be cement blocks on a skid at the Eastern States Exposition, while onlookers gather on either side to watch...

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