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Filter: Creator Name of McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
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| Description: | Two workers loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a tram car on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The sisal or hennequen was used by the McCormick Company and... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Several farmers and farm laborers, including a handful of children, at work harvesting grain with a McCormick grain binder in a field. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A farmer is operating what may be a McCormick open elevator (?) binder pulled by two horses in a field of grain on a gently sloping hillside. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Landscape of a model farm (?) with cattle grazing in a field in the foreground. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, model farms were experimental fa... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cattle grazing in field. This may represent a model farm, an experimental farm of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two men harvesting rye in a field with a horse-drawn grain binder. The men are working on the Vogel farm. |
| 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: | Charles F. Nitz is operating a McCormick grain binder, drawn by three horses through a field. The original caption reads: "The oldest self binder in Cuming... |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the family farm, Walnut Grove, of Robert Hall McCormick (father of Cyrus Hall McCormick). |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Bearded man operating a reaper drawn by two brown horses. The reaper appears to be an early model or may be a replica of the first reaping machine. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two men posing in a field near a McCormick grain binder drawn by two mules. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Man harvesting grain with hand cradle in a field. There are many haystacks in the field in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three people posing with a horse-drawn grain binder in a field. A young man on the left is sitting on the binder, and on the right a boy is on one of the h... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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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