Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
Date: | 09 12 1908 |
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Description: | Demonstration of the Wright Flyer. |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the wreck of a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad train at Corliss. A large crowd of men are watching as a Bucyrus crane is lifting a car b... |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | A group of men and women gather in a farm field to watch a demonstration of plowing with a Mogul 8-16 tractor. |
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Description: | A large group of men, women, and children gather in a field. |
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Description: | A large crowd gathers under a pavilion in a field. |
Date: | 04 28 1932 |
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Description: | View across field on an International Harvester Company farm towards a group of men standing and watching a plowing demonstration. Several barns and other ... |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Students and teachers gathered in a field for the girls' relay race at an annual school festival in Belwood Park. |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Poster commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the invention of the reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick (reaper centennial). The poster features a color repro... |
Date: | 06 16 1949 |
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Description: | "This crop dusting plane crashed and burned on the Lucy Firk's property on the north end of the village." |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | A group of visitors to Camp Douglas are gathered at the edge of an open field, perhaps observing military exercises. Several carry umbrellas. |
Date: | 03 28 1892 |
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Description: | Newspaper clipping cartoon drawing of Jeremiah Rusk as a towering figure standing above a small crowd of men in a field. Rusk wears a hat and vest, his sle... |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | View across field towards Governor Francis E. McGovern, standing in the center, wearing a suit and hat. Beside and behind him are a group of men and women. |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | Two bike race competitors pose with their bicycles in a field as an admiring crowd stands behind them. One man wears a "stars and stripes" shirt and a bere... |
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Description: | "Testing of First Reaper at Steele's Tavern." Second version illustrating occasion. |
Date: | 09 21 1919 |
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Description: | Two children, identified as the son and daughter of United States Secretary of War Newton Baker, standing in a field and pointing to the left. With them ar... |
Date: | 1973 |
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Description: | Elevated view of a group of men demonstrating the use of a tractor belt powering a threshing machine. A crowd of people are watching from the sidelines. |
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Description: | View across fence towards a rabbit hunt. Caption on slide reads: "Sports: Jack rabbit hunt, California. Driving wild rabbits into enclosure where they will... |
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