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Experimental Farmall Tractor

Date: 1926
Description: Engineering photograph of an experimental McCormick-Deering Farmall Regular tractor.
Poster

Map of the United States in 1831

Date: 1933
Description: Map created by International Harvester entitled: "The United States as it appeared in 1831 when Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the Reaper." The map pinpoint...
Postcard

Colonial Farm House Display

Date: 1946
Description: The "Colonial Farm House" in the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Caption reads: "Colonial Farm House, Harvester Farm,...
Photograph

Harvester Farm Exhibit

Date: 1946
Description: A view of the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. Includes a barn, a farmhouse, and an International pickup truck in the distance...
Photograph

Microscopic Inspection of Diesel Pump Parts

Date: 06 27 1937
Description: Milwaukee Works factory employee using a microscope to inspect diesel engine pump parts.
Photograph

Weighing a Bale of Sisal Fiber

Date: 1949
Description: A worker carefully weighs a bale of sisal fiber, possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Weighing the bale of s...
Photograph

High School Band Plays in Street

Date: 1942
Description: The Elk Mound High School band entertaining farmers as they weigh in loads of scrap at Ausman Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. The...
Photograph

Student Testing Corn

Date: 1917
Description: A boy at Mount Prospect High School testing corn as part of the Cook County School Home Project.
Photograph

Children Testing Corn

Date: 1917
Description: A group of children from Mount Prospect High School standing around a table in a classroom to conduct corn testing while their instructor is looking on fro...
Photograph

Men in Yard Weighing Bales of Cotton

Date: 1905
Description: Men in a residential backyard using a hanging scale to weigh bales of cotton loaded on a wagon pulled by a team of work horses.
Photograph

HT-340 Research Tractor in Arena Show

Date: 1973
Description: A man wearing a cowboy hat is operating an International Harvester model HT 340 experimental research tractor in a dirt arena under a tent in front of spec...
Photograph

Technician Testing Dyes for Nylon Carpet

Date: 1970
Description: A female technician is at a workbench testing dyes for nylon carpet. The woman is wearing a white lab coat and apron, and has a beehive or bouffant hairsty...
Magazine or Periodical

Home Economics Department Kitchen

Date: 02 1948
Description: View of the new home economics department kitchen. Zelma Purchase is at the range and Priscilla Cobb is standing at the sink.
Magazine or Periodical

Irma Harding's Chief Representative, Miss Mae Houston

Date: 1953
Description: Miss Mae Houston, director of the home economics laboratory at Evansville, sitting at a desk.
Magazine or Periodical

Mrs. Ann Hamman

Date: 1953
Description: Mrs. Ann Hamman at International Harvester's refrigeration works.
Photograph

Mary Alyce DeVillez

Date: 1953
Description: Mary Alyce DeVillez in her office at International Harvester's refrigeration works.
Photograph

Ear Test for Ears of Corn

Date: 1916
Description: Group of men working inside a large room with samples of corn. Original caption: "Several hundred bushels were given six kernels every ear test, the averag...
Photograph

Two Women Examining Corn Shoots

Date: 
Description: Close-up of two women examining what may be corn shoots. The shoots are on plates, and in a glass on a table. Lantern slide.
Photograph

Tractor Pushed Corn Picker at McCormick Works

Date: 06 27 1919
Description: A man is sitting under an umbrella on a tractor-pushed Corn Picker in factory yard. Perhaps for research and development. There is a small building in the ...
Photograph

Tractor Pushed Corn Picker at McCormick Works

Date: 06 27 1919
Description: A man is sitting under an umbrella on a tractor-pushed Corn Picker in factory yard. Perhaps for research and development. A group of men are watching and s...

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