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American Inventors

Date: 1900
Description: Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio...
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McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1890
Description: Lithograph illustration for the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a gentleman sitting in a Victorian parlor pointing to...
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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ...
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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1896
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. A small illustration at the top right is of a man using a horse-d...
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Experimental McCormick Motorized Push Binder

Date: 10 21 1918
Description: Side view of a worker at the controls of an experimental McCormick motorized push binder in front of the McCormick Works factory, Chicago, Illinois. Two me...
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Customer at Parts Desk of International Harvester Dealership

Date: 1942
Description: Slightly elevated view of a customer at the service counter of an International Harvester dealership. A bin of oil filters, McCormick-Deering hammer mills,...
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Threshing Outfit

Date: 08 09 1928
Description: Nichols-Shepard Company store, located at 649 E. Mifflin Street, with men, tractor and threshing machine in front. Large sign in front reads: "This complet...
Book or Pamphlet

Excelsior Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Excelsior harvesting machinery manufactured by Hoover and Gamble. Features a color illustration of a boy and girl in a ...
Photograph

Disk Harrow

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Description: Charley Sharpe and Fred Jones working with a disk harrow in a field. The disk harrow is pulled by four horses. Original caption reads: "Charley Sharpe and...
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Price-Campbell Cotton Picker

Date: 1924
Description: Man on the Price-Campbell cotton picker.
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1902
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne & Co. harvesting machines showing three old men. Two of the men appear to be listening to the third man. I...
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Osborne Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1904
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Osborne line of harvesting machinery. The illustration shows a man with spectacles and g...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. At the center is a portrait of Cyrus McCormick inside an egg shape with...
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McCormick Auto-Mower

Date: 07 24 1900
Description: Engineer E.A. Johnston operating a single-cylinder version of the McCormick Auto-Mower at the McCormick Works. Johnston was Director of Engineering for the...
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Soviet Government Representatives at Farm

Date: 08 11 1944
Description: Six Russian representatives of the Soviet government observing a new McCormick-Deering Company Model 50-T hay baler at the Bowman Dairy Farm on Fish Hatche...
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Dairy Department

Date: 1915
Description: Max Ballard at the separator and Harvie Connell churning in the dairy department of the Pickens County High School.
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Cotton Picking Machine

Date: 05 17 1916
Description: Men gathered outdoors around a cotton picking machine exhibited at the National Implement and Vehicle Association Meeting.
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Experimental Motor-Cultivator

Date: 1914
Description: A large group gathers for a group portrait near an experimental motor cultivator(?).
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15-30 Tractor and Hay Press

Date: 1912
Description: Workers on and near a large pile of hay use an International Harvester Mogul(?) 15-30 tractor and hay press in a field.
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Bryant Dairy Farm

Date: 07 21 1947
Description: Two men showing a farmer milking equipment.

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