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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...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 01 1901
Description: Lithograph cover illustration in a mosaic styled design for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog of a woman holding a miniature McCormick grain...
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

International Harvester Movie Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster for a film produced by International Harvester in which "the tractor's constructive influence is symbolized in typical scenes - plowing,...
Photograph

African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing...
Photograph

Brown's Piano Truck

Date: 1921
Description: A driver sitting in the cab of an International piano delivery truck for Brown's Store. In the back of the truck are two large wooden crates, one presumabl...
Photograph

Photographer at Cotton Harvest

Date: 1921
Description: A cameraman films a man stooping to pick cotton while other people are looking on from the background.
Photograph

Directing a Scene In "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A photograph from the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reaper Cen...
Photograph

Men Working with Cradles in Film Re-Enactment

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
Photograph

Muncie International Co.

Date: 1929
Description: Showroom of the Muncie International Company, an International Harvester dealership. The showroom includes a truck, furniture, a desk area, and farm equipm...
Photograph

TracTracTor with Actress Steffi Duna

Date: 1937
Description: Actress Steffi Duna stands on the International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) used in the motion picture Escape by Night.
Photograph

Reviewing Nailbox Assembly

Date: 08 1919
Description: Two women and one man, probably rural school teachers, are standing outdoors near a work bench, reviewing the blueprints to construct a nail box.
Photograph

Diversified Farming Campaign

Date: 03 08 1915
Description: A group of men and women standing outside the New Home School to listen as Professor Clark is speaking on the subject of diversified farming. He uses a poi...
Photograph

IH Demonstration Farm at Gull Lake

Date: 12 1928
Description: Cameramen staging a shot of a man and woman on a Farmall Regular tractor in front of farmhouse at an International Harvester demonstration farm in Gull Lak...
Photograph

Wallace Poster Advertising Company Truck

Date: 03 21 1925
Description: International Model S truck owned by the Wallace Poster Advertising Company is parked along the side of a road in front of two billboards. Two men on the r...
Photograph

Man Carrying Chair into House with Children and Dog

Date: 11 1976
Description: A man is carrying a chair into a house from an International Harvester model 1700 truck owned by A. Arnold and Son Transfer & Storage Co. of Louisville, Ke...
Photograph

Truck Pulling Float with Giant Turkey

Date: 11 25 1976
Description: Thanksgiving Day Parade, either Macy's Parade in Manhattan, New York, or Gimbels' Parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A red and white International Harve...
Photograph

Workers with Parade Float Balloons Under Nets

Date: 11 25 1976
Description: People EW working with floats for a Thanksgiving Day Parade, either Macy's Parade in Manhattan, New York, or Gimbels' Parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
Photograph

Exihibition Outdoors in France

Date: 1962
Description: Elevated view of groups of men sitting and eating at round tables, some covered with umbrellas, on a lawn. A truck and a tractor are being exhibited on the...

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