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| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | A diagram of McCormick's cultivator-reaper, which was patented in 1845. The illustration, titled "The Cultivator" depicts a man using a rake to remove the ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ... |
| Date: | 04 26 1939 |
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| Description: | Women workers operating twine balling machines at International Harvester's McCormick Twine Mill. The twine mill was part of the McCormick Works. The McCor... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Front and back covers of an advertising brochure for the New Empire line of mowers, reapers and grain binders manufactured by J.F. Seiberling & Company. Th... |
| Date: | 10 29 1937 |
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| Description: | Men and women working in the 5th floor mail room of International Harvester's general office building. |
| Date: | 03 16 1927 |
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| Description: | Engineering photograph of men field testing an experimental cotton picker pulled by a Farmall tractor. |
| Date: | 06 12 1917 |
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| Description: | Engineering photograph of a man field testing a limited production motor cultivator. Original caption reads: "... the 1916 motor cultivator with the additi... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Worker checking dimensions and weight of Farmall Cub pistons at International Harvester's Louisville Works. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising catalog for Aultman, Miller and Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment. Features a chromolithograph of a woman sit... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Technicians standing and sitting in the paint(?) laboratory at the McCormick Reaper Works factory. Tables are equipped with burners, beakers and other supp... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Visitors examining the "Farm to City - City to Farm" display in the International Harvester exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory worker weighing parts on a scale at International Harvester's Rock Falls Works. |
| Date: | 06 27 1937 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Works factory employee using a microscope to inspect diesel engine pump parts. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Gertrude Satina weighs a piece of steel in the chemical laboratory at the International Harvester Company. The original caption reads: "This photo shows th... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Men stand at the counter of a physical and chemical laboratory. The original caption reads: "A complete modern physical and chemical laboratory, a portion ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | William Koppa uses a microscope to examine a specimen of steel. The original caption reads: "Micro-photography is employed at International Harvester's Gas... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Two men determine the distillation range of paint thinner in the Paint Department of McCormick Works (factory). |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Factory workers pack small metal parts into wooden crates using a conveyor belt and scale at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A factory worker makes an adjustment to a large weight on a scale in front of a cloth backdrop. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
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