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Book or Pamphlet

Spraying Outfits Catalog Cover

Date: 1912
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester spraying outfits. Includes a colored photograph of an apple tree.
Photograph

Spraying Trees with Pesticide

Date: 1922
Description: Two farmers operating a pesticide sprayer while another man looks on from atop a nearby International 8-16 tractor.
Photograph

Barrel Spraying

Date: 1923
Description: A man is using a barrel sprayer to apply pesticide to a fruit tree on Prof. Holden's farm.
Photograph

Spraying Pesticide

Date: 06 1923
Description: Two men applying pesticide with a sprayer in an orchard. Another man is sitting on the horse-drawn wagon carrying the tank.
Photograph

Spraying Orchard with Pesticide

Date: 1925
Description: Two men using a "Friend" sprayer to apply pesticide to orchard trees.
Photograph

Orchard and Grove Tractor

Date: 10 11 1938
Description: A man drives a McCormick-Deering 10-20 orchard and grove tractor with a 14-A disk and duster. Another man is dusting the trees with a pesticide.
Photograph

Orchard Work

Date: 10 11 1938
Description: A 10-20 orchard and grove tractor pulls a McCormick-Deering 14-A disk and duster owned by Mackay Estates Ltd. A man is using the duster to apply pesticide ...
Photograph

I-14 Tractor and Beam Sprayer in Apple Orchard

Date: 1940
Description: Three men operating an International I-14 industrial tractor and a 300-gallon beam sprayer in an apple orchard. One man is sitting on the tractor while the...
Photograph

F.M. Barden with T-20 Crawler Tractor

Date: 06 01 1938
Description: A man stands on a stand on top of a tank pulled by a T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor). The man is using a Hardie Mogul sprayer with a regular 400-gallon ...
Photograph

Spraying Fruit Trees

Date: 09 20 1924
Description: A man stands on a platform made of wood while using a sprayer to apply pesticide to a grove of fruit trees. Another man stands on the back, and another man...
Photograph

Pesticide Application

Date: 06 1939
Description: Two men use a 150-gallon sprayer attached to the back of a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to apply pesticide to trees in an orchard. The photograph was t...
Photograph

Pesticide Sprayer

Date: 06 29 1939
Description: Four men use a 150 gallon sprayer and a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to apply pesticide to an orchard. The photograph was taken in Markham, Ontario, Can...
Photograph

Orchard Sprayer

Date: 07 15 1929
Description: A man drives a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor through an orchard as another man stands on an orchard sprayer while applying what is probably pesticide ...
Photograph

Pesticide Application

Date: 05 17 1929
Description: A man drives an International tractor through an orchard while another man uses an orchard sprayer to apply what is probably pesticide to the trees.
Photograph

Pesticide Application at Night

Date: 1929
Description: Two men use a McCormick-Deering tractor and an orchard sprayer to apply pesticide to trees at night.
Print

Acme Insecticides Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Acme White Lead & Color Works of Detroit, Michigan, which as part of its business produced insecticides for farm and home garden applicat...
Photograph

Mixing Pesticide for Orchard

Date: 1920
Description: Three men in an orchard mixing up chemicals to spray the trees. One of the men is on the back of a horse-drawn wagon with a barrel. The other two men are s...
Photograph

Farm Orchard Sprayer, Baskets and Apples

Date: 08 1923
Description: Apples in baskets in front of a "farm orcharding sprayer" at R.R. Robertson's. Farm buildings are in the background. On the left is a grinding wheel powere...
Photograph

Man Operating a Sprayer in a Fruit Orchard

Date: 08 1923
Description: Man spraying pesticide(?) on a tree in an orchard. Original Caption: "Copy negative loaned by Niagara Sprayer Company. No negative."

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