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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ...
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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1896
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. A small illustration at the top right is of a man using a horse-d...
Photograph

African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing...
Book or Pamphlet

Excelsior Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Excelsior harvesting machinery manufactured by Hoover and Gamble. Features a color illustration of a boy and girl in a ...
Photograph

Disk Harrow

Date: 
Description: Charley Sharpe and Fred Jones working with a disk harrow in a field. The disk harrow is pulled by four horses. Original caption reads: "Charley Sharpe and...
Book or Pamphlet

"Deering Ideal" Stripper Harvester Catalog Cover

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an Australian catalog for the "Deering Ideal" Stripper Harvester. The cover includes an illustration of a farmer framed by a large question mark o...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. At the center is a portrait of Cyrus McCormick inside an egg shape with...
Photograph

15-30 Tractor and Hay Press

Date: 1912
Description: Workers on and near a large pile of hay use an International Harvester Mogul(?) 15-30 tractor and hay press in a field.
Photograph

Bryant Dairy Farm

Date: 07 21 1947
Description: Two men showing a farmer milking equipment.
Photograph

Kathryn Mann on Farmall A Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Kathryn Mann of Columbia, Pennsylvania, sits on a Farmall A tractor while Walter Dupes, salesman for J.B. Hostetter & Sons of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania,...
Photograph

Clarence L. Dauberman Farm

Date: 07 31 1941
Description: People gathered around a Farmall Regular tractor on the farm of Clarence L. Dauberman. Original caption reads: "Sydney G. McAllister, chairman, executive c...
Photograph

Hoof Care Demonstration

Date: 06 28 1932
Description: J.C. Nisbet, an editor at Hoard's Dairyman magazine, uses a rasp to trim a calf's hoof as part of his demonstration at the Walworth County 4-H Club ...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering 15-30 in New Zealand

Date: 07 23 1928
Description: A McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor in a New Zealand field. Five men stand in a field gathered around bushels of wheat, and one man drives a tractor pulling ...
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Catalog Cover

Date: 1900
Description: Catalog cover features an illustration of two children, a boy and a girl, sitting on a shoreline with a bowl of bubbles. The boy is holding up a dripping b...
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...
Photograph

Louis Hanson and Laurence Day

Date: 
Description: Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Louis Hanson and farmer-State Legislator Laurence Day chat while inspecting an ear of corn in a cornfield.
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Harvesting Machinery

Date: 1883
Description: Inside spread of 4-page brochure featuring illustrations accompanying blocks of text explaining the features of Champion machines. The top left shows a man...
Book or Pamphlet

The Buckeye Catalog with Calendar — February & March

Date: 1895
Description: Catalog featuring calendar pages. February features Lewis Miller, the father of the mowing machine, with text and a portrait. March has an illustration of ...
Photograph

Men Using Horse-Drawn Binders in Cornfield

Date: 1900
Description: Two men using horse-drawn corn binders in a field. A man wearing a suit and hat is standing on the right.
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man in a suit and hat is standing in front of a man using a horse-drawn binder in a field.

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