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Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
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:...
Photograph

International Crawler Tractor with Hillside Combine

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Description: Color photograph of an International crawler tractor [TracTracTor] pulling a No. 51 hillside combine (harvester-thresher) against a beautiful mountainous ...
Photograph

McCormick Combine in Wheat Field

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Description: Farmer harvesting wheat with a McCormick combine (harvester-thresher) against a mountainous background. The combine is using a windrow pickup head and may ...
Photograph

McCormick Combine Harvesting Wheat

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Description: Farmer harvesting wheat with a McCormick combine (harvester-thresher) against a mountainous background. The combine is using a windrow pickup head and may ...
Photograph

Farmall H Tractor with No. 64 Combine

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Description: Farmer on a McCormick-Deering Farmall H tractor with no. 64 combine (harvester-thresher) set against a mountainous backdrop.
Photograph

Experimental Combine Harvesting Grain

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view of men harvesting grain with a McCormick-Deering 12 foot experimental combine (harvester-thresher) pulled by a Farmall M tractor. There is a ...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer ope...
Book or Pamphlet

J.F. Seiberling & Co. Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back covers of an advertising brochure for the New Empire line of mowers, reapers and grain binders manufactured by J.F. Seiberling & Company. Th...
Photograph

McCormick No. 51 Hillside Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1950
Description: Two men harvesting wheat with an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and a No. 51 hillside harvester-thresher (combine). Mountains are in the far b...
Photograph

McCormick grain binder

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Description: Man operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder against a mountainous backdrop.
Photograph

Harvesting Grain by Hand in Mexico

Date: 06 29 1928
Description: Several people harvest grain by hand, while two men on horses look on. All the men wear sombreros; the men on horses wear suits, while the harvesters wear...
Photograph

Harvesting Scene

Date: 1915
Description: Harvesting scene with groups of men, women, and boys and multiple reapers hitched to oxen. Foothills or mountains are in the background, behind a row of t...
Photograph

Experimental Harvester-Thresher

Date: 
Description: Side view of a man using an experimental No.127 SP harvester-thresher (combine) in a field. Mountains are in the far background. The original caption read...
Photograph

Loading Hay

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Description: Agricultural workers are loading hay onto a wagon pulled by two horses in the vicinity of Carbondale or Elk Hill. A man sits in a horse-drawn carriage near...
Photograph

McCormick Binder near Mountains

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using a McCormick grain binder led by a team of horses to work in a field near a range of mountains.
Photograph

Pineapple Harvest

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Description: A group of workers harvest the fruit in a pineapple field. There is a large pile of pineapples in the foreground.
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...
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....
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across harvested field towards men and a young girl posing near a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder. Farm buildings and fences are in the backg...

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