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Harvester-Thresher Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) showing a tractor-drawn harvester-thresher in a field under the slogan: "Once Over ...
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N.C. Wyeth Depiction of McCormick Reaper Demonstration

Date: 1931
Description: Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh...
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Farmall 300 Tractor with McCormick Baler

Date: 1955
Description: Color photograph of two men operating a Farmall 300 tractor and a McCormick baler in a field.
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Farmall 350 Tractor with Baler and Wagon

Date: 1957
Description: Color photograph, slightly elevated, of two farmers baling hay with a McCormick Farmall 350 tractor, a McCormick baler and a wagon.
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Baling Hay with International 454 Tractor and 420 Baler

Date: 1971
Description: Color advertising photograph of a young woman on an International 454 tractor pulling an International 420 baler and wagon. A man is standing on the wagon.
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Hunter Shows Prize to Man on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1948
Description: McCormick-Deering Farmall H tractor in a fall setting. A hunter, Mr. Vinson E. Gritten, is holding up a dead rabbit for William Foreman and Junior Scott (b...
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Camera Crew Films Farmers Harvesting Corn

Date: 09 20 1928
Description: Camera crew from the Cloud County Farm Bureau filming farmers harvesting corn with a Farmall tractor. An International truck used by the crew is parked to ...
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Threshing in the 1870s

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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...
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Farmer Harvesting Corn with McCormick-Deering Corn Picker

Date: 12 04 1926
Description: Farmer harvesting corn with a McCormick-Deering two-row corn picker attached to a Farmall Regular tractor. The farmer is smoking a pipe.
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Man Operating International Harvester Cotton Picker

Date: 1942
Description: African American man dumping a load of cotton from an experimental International Harvester cotton picker into a wagon.
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Unloading International Harvester Cotton Picker

Date: 1942
Description: Two men are watching as cotton is unloaded from an experimental International Harvester cotton picker into a wagon. A Farmall tractor is in the foreground.
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Farmall M Tractor with No. 24 Corn Picker

Date: 10 12 1951
Description: Farmer picking corn with a No. 24 corn picker attached to a Farmall M tractor on the farm of W.C. Sanders.
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Farmall Super M with No. 24-SC Sweet Corn Picker

Date: 1954
Description: Color photograph of a man picking corn with a No. 24-SC sweet corn picker mounted on a Farmall Super M tractor.
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Hunter Shows Prize to Man on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1948
Description: Hunter shows a dead rabbit to a man on a Farmall H tractor and a boy in a wagon full of pumpkins. The caption reads: "Mr. [William] Foreman is on the tract...
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Horses and Central-rig

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Description: Men are in a farmyard (possibly at a sorghum mill) with horses hitched to a central-rig. A haystack, barn, wagons and farm machinery are in the background.
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Men in Field with Reaper

Date: 1873
Description: Three men with hats are standing in a field with a reaper and grain cradle. Two children (their images are blurred) are sitting in front of them. In the fi...
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Boys Doing Gymnastics in Field

Date: 1874
Description: Three young men doing gymnastics in a field near a cow, with other people standing and posing behind them. Two people are in a wagon. In the background are...
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Men Using Tractor and Threshing Machine

Date: 1897
Description: Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a...
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Indians Thresh Wheat

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Description: Indians thresh the first wheat at the Sac and Fox Agency in Iowa.
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Tobacco Harvest

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Description: Men in field with tobacco on wagon, and a barn and an outbuilding in the background. This is Lewis Dahl's tobacco harvest in back of his father's home (Nel...

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