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Battle of Gettysburg Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Lithographed advertising poster showing a McCormick grain binder at the Civil War battle of Gettysburg. The poster was based on a cyclorama by French artis...
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Man on Horse-Drawn Mower in Hilly Field

Date: 1899
Description: A man sporting a beard and wide-brimmed straw (?) hat is operating a mower pulled by two horses in a field. The field is on hilly terrain. A dirt road and ...
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Horse-Drawn Mower in Field

Date: 1899
Description: Rear view of a farmer operating a horse-drawn mower in a field. The words "E Rees Howard Farm. Newton Square Phila." have been etched into the emulsion of ...
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Farmer Harvesting Grain with Horse-Drawn Reaper

Date: 1899
Description: Rear view of farmer operating a horse-drawn self-rake reaper harvesting grain in a hilly field.
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Horse-Drawn McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A farmer is operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. Many of the gear mechanisms in the rear of the binder are clearly visible in the ima...
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McCormick Horse-Drawn Grain Binder in Field

Date: 1899
Description: A farmer is operating a McCormick binder pulled by two horses in a field of grain. The gear mechanisms can be seen at the rear of the binder.
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McCormick Horse-Drawn Grain Binder on Hillside

Date: 1899
Description: Rear view of a farmer operating a McCormick grain binder pulled by two horses on a hillside. In the background are hills and trees.
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Cattle in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Cattle grazing in field. This may represent a model farm, an experimental farm of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Farmstead near Waterway

Date: 1900
Description: Rural scene of farmstead with a river or stream (?) in the background. The farm is bounded by a barbed wire fence, and there is a utility pole on the bank ...
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Harvesting Rye on Vogel Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Two men harvesting rye in a field with a horse-drawn grain binder. The men are working on the Vogel farm.
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McCormick Marsh Harvester of 1875

Date: 1900
Description: Side view of three men using a McCormick marsh-type hand-binding harvester in a field.
Photograph

Steele's Tavern, Virginia

Date: 1900
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...
Photograph

McCormick Family Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the family farm, Walnut Grove, of Robert Hall McCormick (father of Cyrus Hall McCormick).
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Horse-Drawn Binder Entering Farmyard

Date: 1900
Description: View from road of farmyard surrounded by a white picket fence. A man is riding on a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder. A small group of men are waiting in...
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Man with Cradle Scythe

Date: 1900
Description: Man harvesting grain with hand cradle in a field. There are many haystacks in the field in the background.
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Horse-Drawn Mowers and Buggy

Date: 1900
Description: A man and a boy are each driving their own mower. Each mower is pulled by two horses. The young boy is waving his hat. A man on the right is riding in a b...
Photograph

Man Riding Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man wearing a banded hat and riding a mower drawn by two horses. The man is lifting the sickle bar on the mower to avoid a tree stump. A roa...
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Man and Woman with Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: A man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe is sitting in a field on a mower drawn by two horses. A woman is posing in front of the horses wearing a dress and h...
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Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man is picking up bundles of grain by hand, while another man is operating a horse-drawn grain binder. In the left background is a group of people in a s...
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Man Driving Mule-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man with a large brimmed hat riding a mule-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field with a single tree in the background.

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