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Poster

Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Front cover of a German language advertising catalog for International Harvester's Milwaukee line of harvesting machinery. Features a chromolithograph illu...
Painting

Residence of Mr. Martin Lutscher

Date: 1875
Description: Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s...
Photograph

Men Harvesting Grain with Scythes

Date: 1920
Description: Three men harvesting grain with scythes. The men appear to be in period costume and are likely re-enacting harvesting methods of the first half of the 18th...
Photograph

Tractor, Binder, and Reaper

Date: 1918
Description: A man pulling an Osborne grain binder with a Titan 10-20(?) tractor. In the background are farm buildings. Bundled piles of grain are in the lower right c...
Photograph

McCormick Reaper of 1847

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using a team of two horses to pull a McCormick reaper in a field, while other women and men are raking the cut grain.
Photograph

Picking Cotton

Date: 
Description: Agricultural workers harvesting cotton, location unknown. Some of the workers are using horse-drawn plows. Two small buildings are in the distance. Caption...
Photograph

Men with Grain Cradles

Date: 1912
Description: Rear view of three men wearing hats, and pants with suspenders, using grain cradles to harvest a field crop. Multiple buildings, including a barn, are on a...
Photograph

Farming with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man using a McCormick grain binder pulled by horses to work in a field. In the background is a barn, windmill and several other farm buildings.
Photograph

McCormick Binder in Barley Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man using a McCormick grain binder to work in a field of barley on the farm of the Honorable William Dickens.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Side view of a man using two horses to pull a McCormick grain binder through a farm field. A barn and farmhouse are in the background on a hill.
Photograph

Farmer with Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Side view of a man driving two horses to pull a McCormick corn binder through a field. Several farm buildings are in the background.
Poster

P&O Plow Poster

Date: 1920
Description: Poster for use in the Philippines advertising the McCormick-Deering P&O plow. The poster features an illustration of a plow beneath a tree in the foregroun...
Photograph

Man Standing on Stack of Hay

Date: 1895
Description: A group of men are working in a field with farm buildings in the background. A man wearing a wide brimmed hat is standing on top of a large pile of hay hol...
Photograph

Haying

Date: 1929
Description: Oscar Steinkopf and his horse Jim. They are haying on Steinkopf's 40-acre farm. The photograph was taken by Alvin Steinkopf, Oscar's son, a Milwaukee journ...
Photograph

Men Harvesting with Cradles

Date: 1900
Description: Three men are harvesting grain in a field using hand held cradles. The scene may be a re-enactment staged to demonstrate early harvest methods.
Photograph

Grain Stacks

Date: 09 09 1895
Description: View across field of two men leaning against an enormous stack of grain on the farm of August Schmidt. There are many more stacks of grain leading into the...
Photograph

Elmer Tompkin Driving Farmall M with No. 12 Two-Row Digger

Date: 1940
Description: View from rear of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elmer Merrill's 400-acre ...
Photograph

Elmer Tompkin Driving Farmall M with No. 12 Two-Row Digger

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elme...
Photograph

Farmall-Drawn Corn Pickers

Date: 10 25 1928
Description: A man is driving a Farmall tractor in a cornfield, pulling another man sitting on a corn picker. There is a house on a tree-covered hill in the background ...

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