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Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom...
Book or Pamphlet

Lily Cream Separator Catalog

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Lily line of cream separators. Features an illustration of a young girl holding an apple behi...
Photograph

Girl with "Tracto" the "Talking" Robot

Date: 07 27 1960
Description: A young girl with a lollipop looks up at "Tracto," a robot made of tractor parts for International Harvester's exhibits at state fairs. From the original...
Photograph

Woman on Disk Harrow(?) at Liberty Farm

Date: 1918
Description: Florence(?) Ward sits on disk harrow or plow at Liberty Farm as J. Ogden Armour looks on.
Photograph

Milking Machine Sale

Date: 06 03 1937
Description: Ralph Lower, dairy equipment salesman from International Harvester's Syracuse branch, sells a farmer a milking machine at Cedardale Stock Farm. A McCormick...
Photograph

Women with 123-SP Combine

Date: 1944
Description: Two women in a field with a McCormick-Deering 123-SP harvester-thresher (combine). An automobile is parked in the background on the left.
Print

Back of "Which Side Are You On?" Card

Date: 1888
Description: The back view of a farmer reaching over a fence. He stands next to wrecked farming machinery, and the words, "Which Side Of The Fence Are You On?" Other te...
Photograph

Child Operating Horse-Drawn Farm Machinery

Date: 1915
Description: A young child is sitting on what appears to be a horse-drawn mower in a field. The horses are wearing fly-nets and blinders.
Photograph

Family with Horse-Drawn Plow

Date: 
Description: A woman and child are posing sitting on a plow steered by a man standing on their right. The two horses are standing on the left. In the background is a tr...
Photograph

Two Men with a New Osborne Tedder

Date: 06 09 1911
Description: A man sits on a New Osbourne six-fork hay tedder with his back to the camera at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). He i...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Catalog Cover

Date: 1897
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man fixing a bicycle while a woman and two children look on. The woman's outfit sports "leg o' mutton" (or gig...
Book or Pamphlet

John S. Davis & Sons Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Catalog cover with text: "Oscillator = Thresher". Also includes color illustration of a young girl sitting on a tree swing. Behind her, men women and child...
Photograph

Deering Binder Cutting Grain

Date: 1908
Description: The Alexander Krueger family posing with a Deering Binder being pulled by a three-horse team through a field. Florentina, Jennie, and Alexander are standin...
Photograph

Man Using Corn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from rear left of a man standing on the platform of a corn binder pulled by two horses.
Photograph

Man Attaching Wheels on a Daisy Reaper

Date: 1900
Description: View of a man attaching wheels on a Daisy Reaper. The man is crouching in a large area paved with cobblestones near industrial buildings.
Photograph

Man Binding Stalks

Date: 1907
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man binding corn stalks on a windy day.
Photograph

Sid Boyum on his Toonerville Trolley

Date: 
Description: View across the backyard of 237 Waubesa St. looking at Sid Boyum standing on the back of his wooden trolley, "Toonerville". Sid has a corncob pipe in his m...
Photograph

Corn Binder

Date: 1905
Description: Rear view towards left side of an unidentified man driving a three-abreast team of horses hitched to a mechanical corn binder. There is a wooded hill in th...
Photograph

Man Demonstrating Assembly on Mower

Date: 09 11 1916
Description: A man is bending over near a Mower in a factory yard. He is holding a hammer near a bolt in the assembly.

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