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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...
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

Man and Woman on Location for "Romance of the Reaper"

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

Floyd Kaylor Restaurant

Date: 1937
Description: A woman is filling a glass from a faucet mounted on a McCormick-Deering 6 can cooler in the Floyd Kaylor Restaurant. Three people are sitting at a counter ...
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

Rural Teachers Learn Woodworking and Rope Tying

Date: 08 1919
Description: Group of several women, probably rural school teachers, assembling wood projects, including benches, while others are learning to tie rope.
Photograph

Group of Women Learning Woodworking

Date: 1918
Description: Group of women, probably teachers, using tools to assemble various wooden products including nail boxes, benches and cabinetry(?). Three large posters are ...
Photograph

Bench Work

Date: 1919
Description: View of a teacher watching over a group of male students as they practice woodwork at benches inside a classroom. The text on the blackboard hanging on the...
Photograph

Knot-Tying Lesson

Date: 1919
Description: A group of men and women sit in chairs inside what appears to be a classroom or gymnasium while practicing knot-tying. They follow an instructor's example...
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

Extension Employees Constructing Lecture Charts

Date: 1919
Description: Group of male and female workers assembling International Harvester Agricultural Extension lecture charts.
Book or Pamphlet

"Big Stage Show" Flyer Front

Date: 1950
Description: Front of flyer announcing an International Harvester free family party for friends and customers. "No selling"
Book or Pamphlet

Family Party Flyer — North Dakota

Date: 1950
Description: Inside of flyer featuring the performers at the family party held at Williston Armory in Williston, North Dakota and sponsored by the Erickson Implement Co...
Photograph

Women in White Smocks Posing with Kitchen Utensils

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of women wearing long white smocks posing with kitchen utensils, baskets, cups, plates and flowers. The women are sitting on a table and cha...
Photograph

Women in White Smocks Posing with Kitchen Utensils

Date: 1900
Description: Women dressed in white smocks posing with kitchen utensils. The women are posing sitting and standing. A woman wearing a long skirt and a blouse is standin...

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