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| Date: | 07 19 1927 |
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| Description: | Left side view of Speck's cotton picker, taken for International Harvester's Engineering Department. |
| Date: | 02 11 1948 |
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| Description: | A Thompson boat with detachable Berg boat wheels on the stern and an Evinrude outboard motor. Taken for the Kulzick Advertizing Agency. A man is standing i... |
| Date: | 04 09 1948 |
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| Description: | Police Officer Lester Shore, holding a "River Shiner" fishing lure, for which he holds a patent. It is a casting plug that has a metal lip and shaft and im... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Crowd seated on the lawn of Agriculture Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a ceremony honoring S.M. Babcock, inventor of the butter test. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Robert E. Clough, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as an inventor, using a large drill press. Part of a yearbook created by clas... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Scene from the film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the building of the first practical reaper on the McCormick farm in Virginia. Actors playing the parts ... |
| Date: | 03 14 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Edith Trowbridge, 4202 Mandan Cresent, pulls a ring on a string which opens a trap door to a metal-lined slide to a basement trash box under her sink ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Photographic illustration of two men cutting wood with a saw powered by horses on a treadmill. The horses and treadmill were added by an artist's drawing. |
| Date: | 07 31 1941 |
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| Description: | People gathered around a Farmall Regular tractor on the farm of Clarence L. Dauberman. Original caption reads: "Sydney G. McAllister, chairman, executive c... |
| Date: | 07 31 1941 |
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| Description: | Earl C. Smith, president of the Illinois Agricultural Association, speaks into a microphone at an event to honor Mr. Clarence Dauberman for creating the fi... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Side view of a man using a McCormick wire binder pulled by three horses to work in a field. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Side view of three men using a McCormick marsh-type hand-binding harvester in a field. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man is using a team of two horses to pull a McCormick reaper in a field, while other women and men are raking the cut grain. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A group of five men are standing and sitting around a McCormick grain binder. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | 40 H.P. experimental tractor. Original caption reads: "40 H.P., Built in 1896." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting behind the wheel of what appears to be an experimental tractor. The location is staged for a photo shoot, with a white cloth hanging in fr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Run-down building with a stone chimney in a rural landscape. The photograph is identified as "Steele's Tavern." Cyrus McCormick successfully demonstrated h... |
| Date: | 02 22 1950 |
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| Description: | An example of a pilot plant to remove phosphorus from sewage effluent by engineering professors William L. Lea and Gerard A. Rohlich. |
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