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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...
Print

American Inventors

Date: 1900
Description: Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio...
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: 1895
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring a framed portrait of Cyrus H. McCormick surrounded by foliage. A putto is pulling away a drape from the portrait with one ...
Photograph

Push Binder Drawing

Date: 11 02 1913
Description: Inventors copyright drawing with signatures of inventors Paul Kane, and G.A. Hagadone. Dated Dec. 14th, 1912.
Photograph

Push Binder Drawing

Date: 03 05 1913
Description: Inventors copyright drawing.
Photograph

Push Binder Drawing

Date: 03 08 1913
Description: Inventors copyright drawing. Dated March 4, 1913.

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