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Poster

Hoosier Planter Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Advertising poster for Hoosier planters made by the American Seeding-Machine Company and sold by International Harvester. Features a color illustration. Th...
Poster

International Corn Planter Poster

Date: 1919
Description: South American advertising poster for International corn planters featuring color illustrations of the implement. Printed by Rolland & Carqueville Co. of C...
Photograph

Farmer with Horse-Drawn Corn Planter

Date: 1916
Description: Farmer operating an International Harvester corn planter with fertilizer attachment drawn by two horses or donkeys. The photograph was taken for, or compil...
Book or Pamphlet

CB&Q Corn Planter Catalog

Date: 1916
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's CB&Q line of corn planters showing a farmer in a field with a horse-drawn planter.
Photograph

Deering Grain Drill

Date: 1910
Description: A farmer is walking behind a horse-drawn Deering grain drill.
Photograph

Man Using a Corn Planter

Date: 1912
Description: A man sitting on an International Harvester corn planter pulled by two large horses.
Photograph

No. 11 Corn Planter and Cultivator

Date: 1916
Description: A man operates a No. 11 3-row corn planter and cultivator for Angel Vivanco & Cia., in Ibarra, South America.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Corn Planter

Date: 1910
Description: A man uses a horse-drawn planter (most likely a corn planter) in a field near International Harvester's Richmond Works factory.
Photograph

Mogul 8-16 Tractors and Grain Drills

Date: 1915
Description: Man pulls grain drills through a field with a Mogul 8-16 tractor.
Photograph

Man Seated on P&O Planter

Date: 1919
Description: Portrait of a man seated on a P&O planter.
Photograph

Testing Soil for Acidity

Date: 1913
Description: Group of men gathered to test soil for acidity. Original caption reads: "This picture was taken in Dupage County during the Alfalfa Campaign in 1913, showi...
Photograph

Teacher Explaining "Rag Doll" Test

Date: 1913
Description: Teacher explaining seed germination test ("rag doll" test) to her students. Original caption reads: "Mrs. Agnes Ryan Page explaining the Rag Doll Test to h...
Photograph

School Children at Corn Testing Lesson

Date: 1913
Description: Group of school children gathered outdoors with a teacher examining corn kernels after germination.
Photograph

Children at Corn Germination Lesson

Date: 1913
Description: Class of children gathered outdoors around a table for a corn germination lesson. Original caption reads: "after the rag dolls are prepared they are immers...
Photograph

"Rag Doll" Testing

Date: 1913
Description: Class of girls and teacher running a seed germination test ("rag-doll" test) in the classroom. The class is standing around a table, and are using a pail t...
Photograph

Wagons with Cotton Seed

Date: 11 29 1915
Description: Elevated view of farmers driving horse-drawn wagons carrying cotton seed along a rural dirt road. Farm buildings are on a hill in the background.
Book or Pamphlet

Model 12-20 Yuba Ball Tread Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Yuba Model 12-20 tractor, featuring an elevated view of two men using a Yuba half-track style crawler tractor to p...
Book or Pamphlet

Andrews Tractor One Man Outfit

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Andrews Tractor: "one-man outfit", a four-cylinder, three plow tractor with ten horse power on the draw bar and t...
Photograph

Trout Lake Nursery, First Furrow

Date: 05 1911
Description: View across field towards a number of men working to clear a field. There is a team of horses pulling a plow to create a furrow, with a pine forest in the ...
Photograph

Workers Planting in Rice Field

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of workers in a rice field planting rice. Carrie Chapman Catt described the conditions of rice plantations in her journal from h...

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