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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...
Photograph

Steam Tractor with Sod-breaking Plows

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Description: Two men are posing standing on a steam tractor on the right, probably a Linnell, attached to sod-breaking plows steered by two men on the left. Behind them...
Photograph

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1901
Description: Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover's color illustration features a woman with a rake watching a ...
Photograph

Women and Children Watch Men Work in Field

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Description: Children, men with hats, and women with parasols, are watching men work in a field with a horse-drawn plow and other agricultural equipment. A house is in...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Advertising Card

Date: 1886
Description: Front of a card advertising the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Illustrations show "primitive" harvesting methods alongside a McCormick binder and a ...
Photograph

Poster Illustrating Old and New Harvesting Methods

Date: 05 15 1928
Description: Poster or display board illustrating the differences between "old" and "new" methods of harvesting grain. Includes images illustrating harvesting methods b...
Photograph

Picking Cotton

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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

Three Men with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men use a McCormick grain binder in a field overlooking a body of water, probably the Saint John River, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Men an...
Postcard

Threshing Time on the Old Farm

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored postcard showing a farm crew with horses, a tractor, and other agricultural implements threshing grain crops in a field. Women in dresses pose...
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Excelsior Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover with the title: "A Group of Folding Binders" and four color illustrations. The top left illustration shows a man driving "The No. 7 Light Excels...
Book or Pamphlet

Peerless Reaper Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1880
Description: Catalog cover with gold and black ink illustrations. In the center a woman standing on a globe of the earth carries a sheaf of wheat on her shoulder and a ...
Book or Pamphlet

William Anson Wood Catalog Front and Back Cover

Date: 1880
Description: Front and back cover with gold and blue ink. On the front cover a woman representing Europa is giving a coin to another woman representing America. Other i...
Photograph

Group with Two Horse-Drawn Binders in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men, children, and a woman with two horse-drawn McCormick binders in a field. Some of the men are standing sideways, in profile, looking left. A y...
Photograph

Julian Corbisier Farm

Date: 1901
Description: Three women, identified as Louisa, Esther, and Engeline, standing in a field (possibly soybean) on the Julian Corbisier farm. Men in the background are thr...
Photograph

The Girl on the Land Serves the Nation's Need

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring four women in brown coats, pants, and hats walking along a field. One of the women is leading a team of two horses, two of the...
Painting

Woman with Rake

Date: 1900
Description: A woman wearing a bonnet is raking a field crop in the foreground. Behind her several farmers are operating a horse-drawn farming machine through the field...
Photograph

Grain Binder

Date: 1910
Description: A woman holding the reins of a saddled horse is standing next to a Milwaukee No. 10 grain harvester and binder hitched to three horses. A man is sitting on...
Photograph

Family Posed with Implements for Farming

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Description: Family posing outdoors with implements for farming near a large, stone building. Location: France.

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