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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Advertising brochure for the Ohio Mower and Reaper manufactured by Ephraim Ball. The advertisement features a line drawing of men using two mowers pulled b... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Number 14 Osborne Light Twine Binder, featuring a color illustration of a man using a horse-drawn grain binder in a field. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Flyer and order form advertising McCormick's Reaper and Mower. Features the headline "15,000 sold in the last 4 years" under an illustration of the reaper... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Directions for putting together and operating McCormick's Reaping and Mowing Machine. Features illustrations of the machine in use in the field and alone. ... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Directions for putting together and operating McCormick's Reaping and Mowing Machine. Features labeled drawings of the machine set up as a reaper and as a ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Flyer advertising the McCormick Harvester featuring a small illustration of the machine at work in the field, followed by testimonials. This model appears ... |
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| Description: | Man working a horse-pulled plow, with a young boy walking at his side. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Engraved illustration of "Walnut Grove," the "homestead of the McCormick family" in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick developed the first s... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Cover of an International Harvester "Farm Gears" brochure. Features an illustration of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon, with a barn and farmhouse in the ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Rural Route No. 3 in Bonduel, Wisconsin, with a man driving a U.S. R.F.D. mail wagon along a road by a fenced yard, a barn, and a mailbox. Pr... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Lauson 15-25 tractor featuring a color illustration of a farmer using the tractor and plow in a field, surrounded by an Art Deco-styl... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder (wire binder). The grain binder is operated by a man seated on the machine and pulled by two hor... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Advertisement comparing the power of the Yuba Manufacturing Company's Yuba 12-20 tractor to a horse. Part of the caption reads: "A horse big enough to do t... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Multiple views of the E-B 12-20 tractor in use in farm fields. The text reads: "An E-B Tractor is a Profitable Investment Because it is adaptable to all ki... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a Hart-Parr advertising booklet featuring a color illustration of a farmer using the Hart-Parr 30 tractor to work in a field on a farmstead,... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Spanish-language advertisement for the Wallis tractor with a headline reading: "Lo Que Hara El Wallis" and photographs of farmers using the tractor to work... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertisement for Best tractors featuring a color illustration of a man using a plow pulled by two oxen to work in a field. The headline ... |
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| Description: | Front of card with a color illustration of a man on a Bullard Improved Hay Tedder pulled by a white horse. The back of the card describes the hay tedder. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Advertising card with a color illustration of a man using the Johnston Light Combine in a field with two horses. The back of the card describes the agricul... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Copy of chromolithograph of the testing of the first reaping machine at Steele's Tavern, W. Virginia." The scene includes racist depictions of enslaved Afr... |
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