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Photograph

Threshing Wheat

Date: 07 20 1921
Description: Five men threshing wheat in a field.
Photograph

Harvesting Wheat

Date: 07 06
Description: Three men harvesting wheat. One man is driving a tractor, while the other two men are on top of the hay loaded onto a wagon.
Photograph

Farmer Operating Corn Binder

Date: 1914
Description: A man operates a horse-drawn corn binder in a field while others load stalks into wagons. A silo and two barns are in the background.
Photograph

Man with Hammer Mill and Power Unit

Date: 11 08 1938
Description: A man loads what appear to be stalks of harvested wheat onto a #10-C hammer mill operated by a P-30 power unit. The entire outfit was mounted on a tractor-...
Photograph

Threshing Day

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Description: Threshing day in the fields at the Quinney family farm. View includes, two workers, a tractor powering the thresher, a horse-drawn cart full of straw, a t...
Photograph

Harvesting Wheat

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Description: Two teams of horses aren pulling agricultural machinery, and a horse-drawn carriage is nearby. Most of the large field has been harvested, and bundles of w...
Photograph

Drilling Wheat

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Description: Elevated view of two men using agricultural machinery to drill (plant) wheat. "Superior" sign is on the machinery. A boy and a dog stand nearby. A horse an...
Photograph

Harvest Scene

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Description: Agricultural workers harvest wheat. Several teams of horses are pulling harvesting machinery. Workers gather the wheat into bundles. Caption reads: "Harves...
Photograph

Harvesting Wheat

Date: 1907
Description: Agricultural workers harvesting wheat. Several teams of horses are pulling agricultural machinery while workers gather the wheat into bundles. Caption read...
Photograph

Harvesting Wheat

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Description: Agricultural workers harvesting wheat. Several teams of horses are pulling agricultural machinery while workers gather the wheat into bundles. Caption read...
Photograph

Reaping Wheat

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Description: Many teams of horses are shown pulling reaping machinery in a wheat field in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Harvested wheat is in the field. Two men sit in a h...
Photograph

Threshing Wheat in Kansas

Date: 1907
Description: A large group of agricultural workers is shown threshing wheat in a field. In the foreground a horse-drawn vehicle is in the field. In the background are s...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Chili

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard distributed by International Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a harvesting scene in Chili. The scene depicts multiple people wo...
Historical Object

McCormick Woodcut

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Description: Original woodcut created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. It has three sections and is connected using wood splines. An ...
Historical Object

McCormick Electrotype

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Description: Electrotype created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. A woodcut was created first, the electrotype next, then the letterp...
Print

McCormick Letterpress Print of Wire Binder

Date: 1877
Description: Letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder (wire binder). The grain binder is operated by a man seated on the machine and pulled by two hor...
Book or Pamphlet

Peerless Reaper Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1880
Description: Catalog cover with gold and black ink illustrations. In the center a woman standing on a globe of the earth carries a sheaf of wheat on her shoulder and a ...
Print

Empire Mower and Reaper

Date: 1893
Description: Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “...
Photograph

Threshing Scene

Date: 1936
Description: A man is unloading bundles of grain from a horse-drawn wagon to another man (barely visible) who will feed the bundles into an Advance-Rumely threshing mac...

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