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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...
Photograph

Experimental Combine Harvesting Grain

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view of men harvesting grain with a McCormick-Deering 12 foot experimental combine (harvester-thresher) pulled by a Farmall M tractor. There is a ...
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the Kentucky line of grain drills sold by International Harvester. Features a color advertising illustration of a...
Photograph

Experimental Harvester-Thresher

Date: 
Description: Side view of a man using an experimental No.127 SP harvester-thresher (combine) in a field. Mountains are in the far background. The original caption read...
Photograph

Men in Field with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Two men stand near a man driving a team of four horses to pull a McCormick harvester through a farm field. Mountains are in the background.
Photograph

McCormick Binder near Mountains

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using a McCormick grain binder led by a team of horses to work in a field near a range of mountains.
Print

DYRR Offset Disk Harrows Catalog

Date: 1938
Description: Cover of a brochure featuring an illustration of an offset disk harrow pulled by a TracTractor (crawler tractor). In the background is a farm.
Photograph

Men Raking Hay in a Field

Date: 1900
Description: A young man is operating a horse-drawn hay rake in a field, while other men are raking by hand. There are large piles of hay scattered in the field. In the...
Print

Why Best Tractors are Tracklayers

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of an advertisement for Best tractors featuring a color illustration of a man using a plow pulled by two oxen to work in a field. The headline ...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Man using a team of horses to pull a mower in a field. Another man is standing and watching on the right. There are buildings on a hill in the distance on ...
Photograph

Men Using Horse-Drawn Mowers

Date: 1900
Description: Left side view of three men posing together while sitting on horse-drawn mowers. The horses are wearing fly-nets. A man stands with them on the right. In t...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across harvested field towards men and a young girl posing near a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder. Farm buildings and fences are in the backg...
Photograph

Group Posing with Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across harvested field towards a group of people posing near a man in a horse-drawn McCormick binder. A man is standing on the left, and in the backgr...
Photograph

Two Men Using Farmall A Tractor with No.61 Combine

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of two men working in a field with a Farmall A tractor and No. 61 combine in a field of Great Northern beans on 100-acre ...
Photograph

Two Men Using Farmall A Tractor with Combine in Field

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of two men harvesting Great Northern beans in a field in the Big Horn Basin. One man drives the Farmall A tractor, and ...
Photograph

Deering Binder - Western Harvest Scene

Date: 
Description: View across partially harvester field towards a man using a horse-drawn Deering Binder. Farm buildings among trees are along the far edge of the field, and...

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