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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

Farmall H Tractor with No. 64 Combine

Date: 
Description: Farmer harvesting hay with a McCormick-Deering Farmall H tractor and no. 64 combine (harvester-thresher) set against a background of mountains.
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer ope...
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Farm Equipment Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Champion farm equipment, featuring a chromolithograph illustration of Native Americans ...
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...
Photograph

International Truck and Tractors

Date: 1965
Description: Color photo of a man standing beside an International pickup truck while watching two tractors work in a field. A mountain range is in the background.
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

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

Men Using Horse-Drawn Mowers

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of two men using horse-drawn mowers in a field. Mountains are in the far background.
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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