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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

N.C. Wyeth Depiction of McCormick Reaper Demonstration

Date: 1931
Description: Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh...
Print

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1894
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a courtroom scene framed with a draped American flag and th...
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...
Poster

Low 20th Century Manure Spreader Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for the International Harvester Low 20th Century Manure Spreader. Includes color illustrations of the implement. The spreader features a...
Photograph

Harvesting Hay with Hay Stacker

Date: 1895
Description: Outdoor group portrait of men harvesting hay. Two men are standing on top of a haystack with pitchforks filled with hay. A wooden counter-weighted hay stac...
Photograph

Two Men Posing with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Two men are posing in a field with a grain binder and two horses. One man is sitting on the binder seat, and the other man is leaning on the binder behind ...
Photograph

Group of People Posing with Farm Equipment

Date: 1900
Description: A group of people are posing in a field near a barn. They are harvesting grain, and a man is operating a grain binder pulled by three horses. A girl wearin...
Print

Tractor Tilling Newsletter

Date: 07 1917
Description: Cover of the Volume 1, Number 2 issue of Tractor Tilling newsletter, produced by the Smith Form-a-Tractor Company. The cover features a photograph o...
Photograph

Threshing Scene

Date: 
Description: A scene in a field of men posing on and near a thresher. A man sits on a wagon with four or five pairs of horses standing around him. There is an oval-shap...
Photograph

Men Wearing Suits Posing with Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Two men wearing suits are posing with a man using a horse-drawn binder.
Photograph

Man Driving Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Three men are standing near a man, seen from the rear, on a horse-drawn McCormick binder on the side of a hill. Sheaves of wheat are standing in mounds in ...
Photograph

Group of Men with Mowers and Rakes

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of men working in a field. A man in the center is wearing a suit and hat. Two men are using horse-drawn mowers, and anoth...
Photograph

Group of Men with Binders and Carriage

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of men standing in a field near a man using a horse-drawn binder in a field. In the background two men are sitting in a horse-drawn carriage...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A group of people, children, men and a dog, are standing behind a man using a horse-drawn binder in a field.
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man wearing a suit is standing behind the binder. In the background people are standing and sitting near horse-drawn carriages.
Photograph

Men with Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Three men are standing near a man using a horse-drawn binder in a field.
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

Three Men with Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View across harvested field towards three men with a horse-drawn binder. The man on the left is wearing a suit and hat and is carrying a case. The man on t...
Photograph

Group of Men Posing near Man on Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across harvested field towards men posing near a man on a horse-drawn McCormick binder. Farm buildings are behind them, and in the far background are ...

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