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Primrose Cream Separator Advertising Poster

Date: 1922
Description: Advertising poster for the Primrose cream separator featuring a color illustration of a cow and a cream separator under the text: "Bring Back Prosperity By...
Book or Pamphlet

Saving the World From Starvation Advertisement

Date: 1922
Description: Color advertising flyer entitled "Saving the World From Starvation." Features an illustration of a man in a suit and hat and a farmer looking at McCormick-...
Photograph

Farmall M Tractor with Plow

Date: 
Description: Left side view of a farmer on a McCormick Farmall M tractor with plow in a field. Cows are grazing in the background.
Poster

Primrose Cream Separator Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: South American advertising poster for the Primrose cream separator. Includes color illustration of the cream separator and black and white images of four c...
Book or Pamphlet

Dairymaid Cream Harvester Catalog

Date: 1910
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Dairymaid line of cream separators. The cover features an illustration of two cows, a d...
Book or Pamphlet

Lily Cream Separator Catalog

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Lily line of cream separators. Features an illustration of a young girl holding an apple behi...
Photograph

Milking the Cows

Date: 1929
Description: A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm.
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...
Photograph

Mechanical Milker and Cow at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 03 24 1933
Description: Two men examining a mechanical milker and cow in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair.
Photograph

Radio Stars with Mechanical Cow at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 03 24 1933
Description: Radio stars Jack Pearl and Cliff Hal posing with a mechanical cow and milker in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's ...
Poster

Dairymaid Cream Harvester Advertising Poster

Date: 1912
Description: Advertising poster for the Dairymaid cream harvester (cream separator). Features color illustrations of grazing cows near a stream, a woman with a pail ov...
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

Dairying Display at Dairy Cattle Congress

Date: 1931
Description: A mechanical(?) cow standing on a platform demonstrates the use of a McCormick-Deering milker at the Dairy Cattle Congress. There are paintings of agricult...
Photograph

Man Vacuuming a Cow

Date: 08 13 1948
Description: A man vacuuming the back of a cow in a barn using a DAIRY-VAC machine.
Photograph

Joe Santana Milking Cows

Date: 1946
Description: Joe Santana kneels beside a dairy cow in a barn to use a McCormick-Deering milker. The original caption reads: "Joe Santana, 326-S, Studebaker St., at Norw...
Photograph

Man Milking Cows

Date: 1940
Description: Roger Thomas uses a McCormick-Deering milker on a Holstein cow at the Lee Thomas farm.
Photograph

Harvey Schmidt with Portable Milker

Date: 03 30 1939
Description: Harvey Schmidt stands amongst a row of cows in a barn to use a portable milking machine.
Photograph

Men with Double Unit Milkers

Date: 07 01 1936
Description: Three men stand between two rows of cows in a barn on the H.C. Slocum farm. The man on the left carries a metal pail, while the man on the right and the ma...
Photograph

Men with Cows and Cream Separator

Date: 08 18 1922
Description: Two men are standing and holding a bull and a cow on the farm of Jerry Bacon. An International Harvester cream separator is between the men, and a barn is ...
Photograph

Guernsey Cow Exhibition

Date: 
Description: A Guernsey cow exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City, New York. Milking equipment is being used on the cows, who stand in a circular paddock...

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