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Poster

Harvester-Thresher Advertising Poster

Date: 1929
Description: Advertising sign for the McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thresher (Combine). The poster includes the slogan "Once Over and it's All Over."
Poster

McCormick Twine Advertising Poster

Date: 1929
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick binder twine. Includes color illustrations of balls of twine and a horse-drawn grain binder in a field. Printed by the Mag...
Poster

Deering Harvester-Thresher Advertising Poster

Date: 1929
Description: South American advertising poster for the Deering harvester-thresher (combine). Includes color illustrations of farmers operating tractor-drawn and horse-d...
Photograph

Threshing in the 1870s

Date: 
Description: Men and women pose in the middle of threshing operations with steam engine, horse-drawn wagon and a wheelbarrow equipped with a homemade basket. A handwrit...
Photograph

McCormick "Marsh" Type Harvester

Date: 1929
Description: Men demonstrating the horse-drawn McCormick "Marsh type" harvester built ca. 1878. The men are wearing period dress and the photograph was most likely stag...
Photograph

McCormick Harvester and Wire Binder

Date: 1929
Description: Farmer harvesting grain with horse-drawn McCormick harvester and wire grain binder built in 1876. The scene is likely a historical re-enactment - possibly ...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thresher Advertising Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines). Includes the text "McCormick Reaper Centennial" and a color illustration of farmer...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Grain Binder Advertising Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering grain binders. Includes color illustrations of farmers operating tractor and horse-drawn grain binders in the fiel...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Binder Twine Advertising Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering "Big Ball" binder twine. Includes a color illustration of farmers harvesting grain with a tractor and grain binder...
Photograph

Harvesting Hemp with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Men harvesting hemp with an International 8-16 tractor and a hemp harvester.
Photograph

Harvesting Hemp with Mogul Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Workers harvesting hemp with a Mogul 10-20 tractor and a hemp harvester.
Photograph

Harvesting Hemp with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Workers harvesting hemp with an experimental six-wheel drive International 8-16 tractor and hemp harvester.
Photograph

Harvesting Hemp with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Workers harvesting hemp with an International 8-16 tractor and a hemp gathering and bundling machine (binder?). After retting, hemp gathering machines were...
Photograph

Harvesting Hemp with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Man and woman harvesting hemp with an International 8-16 tractor and hemp gathering and bundling machine (binder?).
Print

IHC Hay Presses

Date: 1914
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for IHC hay presses featuring an illustration of a landscape of a valley with farms and fields.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of advertising catalog for the Deering line of IHC harvesting machines. Cover features a chromolithograph of a field scene with shocks of wheat...
Photograph

Men Cutting Grain with Cradles

Date: 1929
Description: Men cutting grain with cradles while other men gather it into bundles by hand. The scene is a re-enactment filmed in 1929 for the Fox-Hearst film "Romance ...
Photograph

Picking Apples

Date: 1950
Description: An apple-picker stands among the branches of a tree, on a ladder with a pouch slung over his shoulder and belted around his waist.
Photograph

Farmers Harvesting Corn with Farmall Tractor and Corn-Picker

Date: 12 04 1924
Description: Slightly elevated view of two farmers harvesting corn with a Farmall Regular tractor and a corn picker on the farm of C.M Hick.
Photograph

Farmers Harvesting Corn with Farmall Tractors and Corn-Picker

Date: 1930
Description: Farmers using Farmall tractors and a corn-picker with overhead grain tank on the Callens farm.

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