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Book or Pamphlet

Guarding the Cornfields

Date: 1884
Description: Indian women standing on platforms make noise to scare birds from the cornfield.
Book or Pamphlet

Minneapolis Harvester Works Catalog

Date: 1885
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Minneapolis Harvester Works, manufacturers of twine binders and other agricultural implements, featuring a chromol...
Book or Pamphlet

Brantford Steel Binders Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Front and back cover of an advertising catalog for A. Harris, Son & Company of Brantford, Canada, manufacturers of grain binders, mowers and reapers. The c...
Book or Pamphlet

Whitely, Fassler & Kelly Catalog

Date: 1882
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Champion line of harvesting machines manufactured by Whitely, Fassler & Kelly. The cover features a colored illustr...
Print

Reeves Straw Stacker Advertisement

Date: 1888
Description: Advertising brochure for the Reeves Extension Oscillating Straw Stacker, with testimonial clippings. Features a color illustration top center, showing a ma...
Print

The Evolution of the Reaper, Part Two

Date: 1883
Description: Three illustrations from an 1883 McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog portraying the evolution of the reaper. The first drawing is captioned: "Four...
Print

Wheat Crop Production Chart

Date: 1887
Description: "The Yearly Wheat Crop in Principal Countries." Chart showing yearly wheat crop production by country for 1880, found inside the back cover of an 1887 McCo...
Print

Illustration of Cyrus McCormick's Reaper

Date: 1887
Description: Illustration of men harvesting grain with Cyrus McCormick's reaper of 1831. The illustration appeared in an advertising folder produced by the McCormick Ha...
Print

McCormick Family Farm

Date: 1885
Description: Engraved illustration of "Walnut Grove," the "homestead of the McCormick family" in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick developed the first s...
Photograph

Man and Grandsons Standing in a Field

Date: 1880
Description: Albert Ludley Tuttle of Baraboo, standing with his grandchildren and grown sons with farm equipment and horses in a field of young trees. In the field in t...
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Buckeye Catalog

Date: 1884
Description: Back cover featuring a chromolithograph of a young boy driving a team of oxen pulling a Buckeye Twine Binder. At the bottom is a letter that says, in part:...
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Excelsior Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover with the title: "A Group of Folding Binders" and four color illustrations. The top left illustration shows a man driving "The No. 7 Light Excels...
Print

Keller's Advertising Cards

Date: 1880
Description: Front and back of advertising cards for the Excelsior Gleaner and Binder. Front features illustrations of a man using the machinery in a field. The back fe...
Book or Pamphlet

Keller's Advertising Brochure

Date: 1883
Description: Two panels with color illustrations of men using grain binders in a field, each is pulled by a single horse.
Book or Pamphlet

D.S. Morgan & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1882
Description: Back cover of catalog with an illustration of two men using horse-drawn agricultural machinery in fields, while a group of Native American Indians look on....
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Front and Back Cover

Date: 1885
Description: The front cover features a color illustration of a man and woman relaxing near a lake or river. The woman is sitting on a chair under an umbrella painting ...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Covers

Date: 1888
Description: Front and back cover of catalog, featuring on the front an illustration of birds, mice, and flying insects near a wheat field. The back cover reads: "Manuf...
Book or Pamphlet

Patterson & Brothers Twine Binder Inside Spread

Date: 1883
Description: Inside spread of advertising brochure for Patterson and Brothers, manufacturers of agricultural equipment, Patterson, Ontario, Canada. Features a chromolit...
Book or Pamphlet

St. Paul Harvester Works Catalog Cover

Date: 1881
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Saint Paul harvester and cord binder, manufactured by the Saint Paul Harvester Works. The cover features a chromol...

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