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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing a "reaper used by ancient Gauls, First Century." The "reaper" is frame...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Mexico

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard of farmers operating grain binders in Mexico. Includes a color illustration of two grain binders pulled by oxen or cattle. Original caption reads:...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Romania

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard featuring a color illustration of men in suits and farm laborers in a field next to a grain binder drawn by four oxen. Original caption reads: "Ro...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Advertising Card

Date: 1886
Description: Front of a card advertising the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Illustrations show "primitive" harvesting methods alongside a McCormick binder and a ...
Print

Deering Trade Card

Date: 1881
Description: Advertising card for Deering harvesting machinery showing young boys operating a grain binder drawn by oxen. The caption reads "the Deering binder at work ...
Photograph

Harvesting Hay

Date: 
Description: A man is piling hay onto a wagon pulled by oxen.
Photograph

Woman Operating McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A woman wearing a dress and hat is operating a McCormick grain binder pulled by two oxen through a field. Well-dressed men, women and a young child look on...
Photograph

Harvesting with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Men use a McCormick grain binder to harvest a crop on a hill overlooking a valley. Town buildings are on a hill in the far background. Two women and two ch...
Poster

P&O Plow Poster

Date: 1920
Description: Poster for use in the Philippines advertising the McCormick-Deering P&O plow. The poster features an illustration of a plow beneath a tree in the foregroun...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Roumania

Date: 1909
Description: Postcard distributed by International Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of men in suits and farm laborers in a field next to a grain binder ...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Mexico

Date: 1909
Description: Postcard distributed by International Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a harvesting scene: four people in the fields of Mexico operating...
Print

Baldwin & Killen Lands and W.H. Killen & Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of Baldwin & Killen Lands and W.H. Killen & Company, dealers of farm, lumber, and mineral lands, from Appleton, Wisconsin, with an image on the ...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Photograph

Men with Horse-Drawn Corn Binders

Date: 1900
Description: View across cornfield of large group portrait of men and children posing with horse-drawn vehicles, including wagons and binders. A few men are standing ne...
Photograph

Man on Ox-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man using an ox-drawn McCormick binder in a field. Another man is standing behind the mower on the far right.
Photograph

Man on Ox-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of a man using an ox-drawn McCormick binder in a field.
Photograph

Man on Ox-Drawn Reaper

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man using an ox-drawn reaper in a field. There are large buildings in the background.
Photograph

Man Using Ox-Drawn Reaper

Date: 1900
Description: Left side view of a man using an ox-drawn reaper in a field.
Photograph

Man Using Ox-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across harvested section of field towards a man using an ox-drawn binder. Two men wearing suits are standing on the left, and one is gesturing with a ...
Photograph

Man Using Ox-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man using an ox-drawn McCormick binder in a field.

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