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International Harvester Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Cover of International Harvester McCormick line catalog depicting a lush, golden wheat field with a farmer riding a horse-drawn grain binder in the backgro...
Photograph

Picking Beans at a Chicago Vegetable Garden

Date: 1917
Description: Three women and a man dumping the beans they've picked into wooden containers at a vegetable garden northwest of Chicago.
Book or Pamphlet

IHC Pull Power Hay Press Catalog

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester. Shows pull power hay presses featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers ...
Book or Pamphlet

IHC Feed Grinder Catalog Cover

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester feed grinders featuring an illustration of the "Egyptian method of grinding."
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the Kentucky line of grain drills sold by International Harvester. Features a color advertising illustration of a...
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Tillage Implement Catalog

Date: 1915
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Osborne line of tillage implements showing a farmer and son in a field with a horse-drawn dis...
Book or Pamphlet

Feed Your Hungry Crops

Date: 1918
Description: Cover of an "educational" pamphlet published by International Harvester to promote the use of manure spreaders, fertilizers and lime spreaders. Features an...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Corn Machines Catalog

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick corn machines with children watching a rabbit run through a field.
Photograph

Sewer Pipe Installation with Hough Payloader

Date: 1947
Description: A crew of men laying sewer pipe with a Hough payloader. Original caption states: "Hough Payloader laying sewer pipe sections weighing 200 lbs each. Equipme...
Photograph

Field of Harvested Grain

Date: 1900
Description: View across large field dotted with many piles of harvested grain. In the middle distance is a man on a what may be a horse-drawn binder, and another man i...
Photograph

Storing Sisal Fiber

Date: 07 28 1910
Description: Men use a pulley to raise bales of sisal from the ground of a warehouse to the top of a pile of stacked bales. Others use dollies to wheel in additional ba...
Photograph

Men Searching through Dumped Potatoes

Date: 1917
Description: Two men picking through bushels of potatoes that have been dumped from a freight train. The men are scouring for potatoes that are still good. Original cap...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1898
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man using a Light Running Plano in a field with two horses. Around the border are illustrations of types of le...
Photograph

Horse-Powered Push Binder Headers in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards men using a horse-powered push binder header. Farm buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Men Feeding Hay into Hay Press

Date: 01 11 1906
Description: Men are feeding hay into a hay press from large stack. A team of horses is powering the hay press.
Photograph

Two Girls Sitting in a Corn Binder

Date: 10 1906
Description: Two young barefoot girls sitting in the driver's seat of a horse-drawn corn binder in a cornfield in the vicinity of Chicago.
Photograph

Girl Posing with Dog and Dried Corn

Date: 10 1906
Description: A young girl is posing with a large dog sitting on the ground in a field. Ears of dried corn are displayed at the side of the dog. Vicinity of Chicago.
Photograph

Girl Posing with Dog and Dried Corn

Date: 10 1906
Description: A young girl is posing with a large dog sitting on the ground in a field. Ears of dried corn are displayed at the side of the dog. Vicinity of Chicago.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Corn Picker

Date: 10 1906
Description: Rear view of a horse-drawn corn picker in a field. A man is standing in the background on the left.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Corn Pickers

Date: 10 1906
Description: A man is operating a horse-drawn corn picker in a field. The horses are wearing fly-nets. Another man is standing in the background.

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