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Men Using Tractor and Threshing Machine

Date: 1897
Description: Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a...
Photograph

Deering Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1921
Description: Two farmers are using a Deering harvester-thresher (combine) and horse-drawn wagon to thresh grain.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thresher in Action

Date: 07 15 1925
Description: Three-quarter view from front of left side of a McCormick-Deering harvester-thresher (combine) being driven through a field by a man on a McCormick-Deering...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering No. 22 Harvester Thresher / Combine

Date: 02 28 1936
Description: Three-quarter rear view from left of a McCormick-Deering No. 22 harvester thresher (combine) operating in a field. Original caption reads: "Combining soybe...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Combine in Field

Date: 1930
Description: Man on a Farmall tractor, pulling a McCormick-Deering harvester-thresher (combine) in a field. Original handwritten caption says: "Taken on farm of G.N. Co...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Harvester Thresher

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of two men on a McCormick-Deering harvester-thresher (combine) with pickup attachment in a field. Decals and/or stencils are on the machine, ...
Photograph

Deering #123 Prototype Self Propelled Combine

Date: 1944
Description: Man driving an experimental Deering #123 self propelled harvester-thresher (combine). Original caption reads: "Argentina, South America-Deering #123 self p...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Harvester-Threshers

Date: 1935
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering Harvester-Threshers (combines). Features a photograph of a man using a McCormick-Deeering 10-20(?) t...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Threshers Catalog

Date: 1935
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering Threshers. Features a photograph of men working in a field with horses.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Thresher Brochure

Date: 1937
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering stationary threshers. Text encourages farmers to "Get the Extra Bushels" by using McCormick-Deering ...
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

No. 60 Harvester-Thresher Brochure

Date: 1938
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the McCormick-Deering No. 60 harvester-thresher (combine.) Features a photograph of a Farmall tractor pulling a harves...
Book or Pamphlet

"One-Man Combine" Brochure

Date: 1939
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure featuring an illustration of a Farmall tractor pulling a McCormick-Deering No.61 Harvester-Thresher, the "One-Man Combine ...
Photograph

Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: A group of men are operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. Three men are posing in the foreground near the tractor, and anot...
Photograph

Alfred Lunt and Threshers

Date: 1942
Description: Alfred Lunt watching as farm workers pitch grain into a thresher on the Ten Chimneys farm. Two men at the end of a chute collect the separated grain in sac...
Photograph

McCormick No. 4 Harvester Thresher used in Argentina

Date: 11 1926
Description: Original caption reads: "Argentine wheat harvesting scene showing the McCormick No. 4 harvester-thresher during the season of 1925-1926"
Photograph

IHC No. 61 Combine on Purdue University Farm

Date: 07 10 1939
Description: Original caption reads: "Unloading wheat from IHC No. 61 combine on the Purdue University farm near West Lafayette, Indiana." Pictured along with the No. 6...
Photograph

Twelve No. 11 McCormick Deering Harvester threshers

Date: 1927
Description: Handwritten caption on back of photograph reads: "Twelve No. 11 McCormick-Deering Harvester threshers (1927) cutting wheat on Louis Bertrand's farm outside...
Photograph

Self Propelled 12 ft Combine in Flax

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Description: McCormick-Deering 17w self propelled combine. Combine pictured here harvesting flax in California.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Self Propelled 17w 12 ft Harvesting Flax

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Description: McCormick-Deering self propelled 17w combine, shown here harvesting flax.

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