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Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Print

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ...
Poster

Deering Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster with inset color illustrations showing Deering brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes. Includes an illustration of four old...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog

Date: 1887
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers in a field with a horse-dra...
Book or Pamphlet

Whitely, Fassler & Kelly Catalog

Date: 1882
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Champion line of harvesting machines manufactured by Whitely, Fassler & Kelly. The cover features a colored illustr...
Poster

Deering Harvester Advertising Poster

Date: 1899
Description: Advertising poster featuring color illustation of three men and a dog watching a farmer harvest grain with a horse-drawn Deering Ideal grain binder. The me...
Photograph

Men Harvesting Grain in Field

Date: 
Description: Group of men harvesting grain with two McCormick grain binders drawn by horses or mules. In the background are farm buildings and stacks of grain.
Photograph

Large Haying Operation

Date: 1900
Description: Men working on haying operation in a field. Two men are driving horse-drawn wagons piled high with hay. One man is standing near one wagon holding an imple...
Photograph

Men with Sickle Bar Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Three men posing with a piece of McCormick agricultural machinery, possibly a sickle bar mower (?). The writing on the machine reads, "McCormick H.M. Co. H...
Photograph

Men with McCormick Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Men are sitting and standing around a McCormick mower, while a man wearing a suit and hat is standing to the left writing on a slip of paper, possibly a re...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Power Drive Harvester-Thresher

Date: 07 06 1926
Description: Two men working with a McCormick-Deering Power Drive harvester-thresher (combine) in a field. Decals and/or stencils are on the machine.
Photograph

Man with a Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: A bearded man in a coat and a straw hat is operating a mower pulled by two horses in a hilly field. Trees cover part of the hill in the background.
Photograph

Three Men Posing in front of Farm Buildings

Date: 1895
Description: Three men are posing in front of a farmhouse with farm equipment and carriages. One man is standing in the field, another man is driving a mower, and a thi...
Photograph

Group of People in Farm Field

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of people posing in a field. Part of the field has been cut and there are stacks of grain piled at regular intervals. In ...
Photograph

Men and Boys Posing with Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men and two boys are standing in a field next to a McCormick grain binder. On the right a man in a suit and hat is sitting in a carriage pulled by a ...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Siberia

Date: 1909
Description: Postcard distributed by International Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a man operating a self-rake reaper pulled by a horse in a field i...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Scotland

Date: 1909
Description: Postcard distributed by International Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a harvesting scene in Scotland. The illustration depicts field la...
Print

The Gregg Reaper

Date: 
Description: Colored illustration of a man in a hat and boots driving the Gregg Reaper in a field, pulled by two horses.
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Brochure

Date: 1882
Description: Inside color illustration of man using a No. 3. Mower in a field with a team of two horses.
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Brochure

Date: 1882
Description: Inside spread of brochure featuring two color illustrations. The one on the left features the Improved No. 1. Combined Reaper & Mower. The right illustrati...

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