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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

Experimental McCormick Motorized Push Binder

Date: 10 21 1918
Description: Side view of a worker at the controls of an experimental McCormick motorized push binder in front of the McCormick Works factory, Chicago, Illinois. Two me...
Photograph

Threshing Outfit

Date: 08 09 1928
Description: Nichols-Shepard Company store, located at 649 E. Mifflin Street, with men, tractor and threshing machine in front. Large sign in front reads: "This complet...
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...
Photograph

Price-Campbell Cotton Picker

Date: 1924
Description: Man on the Price-Campbell cotton picker.
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1902
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne & Co. harvesting machines showing three old men. Two of the men appear to be listening to the third man. I...
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

McCormick Auto-Mower

Date: 07 24 1900
Description: Engineer E.A. Johnston operating a single-cylinder version of the McCormick Auto-Mower at the McCormick Works. Johnston was Director of Engineering for the...
Photograph

Cotton Picking Machine

Date: 05 17 1916
Description: Men gathered outdoors around a cotton picking machine exhibited at the National Implement and Vehicle Association Meeting.
Photograph

Experimental Motor-Cultivator

Date: 1914
Description: A large group gathers for a group portrait near an experimental motor cultivator(?).
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

"Tractorette" Group on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. John T. Shea, Mary Elma Riddell, and Mrs. John R. Riddell, participants in "Tractorette" class, are posing around a Farmall H tractor with J.S. Inman,...
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

Thompson Hardware Company

Date: 07 24 1929
Description: View across street towards a man standing next to two parked trucks and a tractor in front of the Thompson Hardware Company, an International Harvester dea...
Photograph

People Posing Around Farm Machinery

Date: 
Description: People posing in field, with a barn in the background among trees. In the center a man, three women and a boy are standing in front of a wire fence. Behind...
Photograph

Men on Gang Plow in Horicon Marsh

Date: 09 08 1914
Description: Five men in hats and jackets, some holding the levers on a gang plow pulled by a Rumley tractor, pose for a group portrait. One man in work clothes stands ...
Book or Pamphlet

Planet Jr. Implement Catalogue Cover

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of the Planet Jr. catalog. Features an illustration of a man and young girl (about 5 or 6 years old) in a garden pushing a Planet Jr. Garden Drill to...

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