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Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Cover of International Harvester McCormick line catalog depicting a lush, golden wheat field with a farmer riding a horse-drawn grain binder in the backgro...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Tillage Implements Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of tillage implements featuring an illustration of a farm seen from a high...
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Tillage Implements Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Osborne line of tillage implements. Features a color illustration of a farmer operating...
Book or Pamphlet

IHC Pull Power Hay Press Catalog

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester. Shows pull power hay presses featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers ...
Book or Pamphlet

Low 20th Century Manure Spreader Catalog Cover

Date: 1916
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Low 20th Century manure spreaders. Features an illustration of a farmer with a horse-drawn sp...
Book or Pamphlet

Corn King Manure Spreader Catalog Cover

Date: 1912
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Corn King line of manure spreaders. Features a color illustration of a farmer in a field with...
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Tillage Implement Catalog

Date: 1915
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Osborne line of tillage implements showing a farmer and son in a field with a horse-drawn dis...
Book or Pamphlet

CB&Q Corn Planter Catalog

Date: 1916
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's CB&Q line of corn planters showing a farmer in a field with a horse-drawn planter.
Book or Pamphlet

Hoosier Grain Drills Catalog

Date: 1915
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Hoosier line of grain drills manufactured by the American Seeding Machine Company of Richmond, Indiana. The machine...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Jr. Grain Drills Catalog

Date: 1915
Description: Cover of advertising catalog for the Empire Jr. line of grain drills manufactured by the American Seeding-Machine Company and sold by International Harvest...
Photograph

Horses Entering and Trucks Exiting McCormick Works Gate

Date: 10 09 1928
Description: A line of horses are entering the McCormick Works (factory) gate as a line of trucks and a tractor are exiting. The tractor appears to be an industrial tra...
Photograph

Field of Harvested Grain

Date: 1900
Description: View across large field dotted with many piles of harvested grain. In the middle distance is a man on a what may be a horse-drawn binder, and another man i...
Photograph

Old Cistern, Mts. Mizpeh and Emmans in Distance #1710

Date: 1893
Description: A depiction of Jerusalem on the day of Jesus' crucifixion. Mount Mizpeh and Emmaus are in the distance. Text at right: "Wanderings Among the Wonders and Be...
Drawing

Residence of John Kinzie, Esq. (The First House Built in Chicago)

Date: 1856
Description: Lithograhic view of the residence of John Kinzie on the bank of the Chicago River at the mouth of Lake Michigan. The residence consists of a house with a f...
Photograph

Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

Date: 1924
Description: Presidential campaign photo of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. standing up in the back of a convertible automobile with an American flag behind him. Two signs i...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1881
Description: Front cover of the catalog featuring an embossed silhouette illustration of a man using a horse-drawn Plano harvesting machine.
Photograph

View of Yard and Lumber at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: View from shoreline across river towards a yard with lumber at McCormick Works. Men are working in the yard near horses and wagons.
Photograph

Man with Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: A man is standing in a field holding the reins of two horses pulling a mower. There are farm buildings and a windmill in the background.
Photograph

Horse-Powered Push Binder Headers in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards men using a horse-powered push binder header. Farm buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Man Driving Horse-Drawn Manure Spreader

Date: 1905
Description: View towards a man driving a horse-drawn manure spreader in a field in a residential area, (test plot?). A sign on the side of the manure spreader reads: "...

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