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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Men standing around a Diamond Iron(?) tractor at the Winnipeg tractor contest in Canada. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Men in suits and hats follow along as a man plows with a Holt crawler tractor at the Winnipeg tractor contest in Canada. Another man in the foreground is p... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Still from the feature length motion picuture "Romance of the Reaper" showing a recreation of the demonstration of Cyrus McCormick's reaper of 1831 at Waln... |
| Date: | 09 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Exhibit of new machinery at the terrace plowing demonstration and conservation field day on the Carl Ribbke farm near Ableman. Some of the 2,000 cars and b... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A model or diorama depicting farmers with a Farmall tractor, truck, harvester-thresher (combine) and a horse in a field. The display was likely part of Int... |
| Date: | 05 17 1916 |
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| Description: | Men are watching the demonstration of an Avery Company tractor pulling a Hoosier seed drill (?) across a field at Newsorn Farm during the annual meeting of... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “... |
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| Description: | "Testing of First Reaper at Steele's Tavern." Second version illustrating occasion. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Four men posing with a Farmall H tractor pulling a No. 42 combine in a field in the Snake River Valley. The tractor and combine were being demonstrated in ... |
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