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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
| Date: | 01 1901 |
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| Description: | Lithograph cover illustration in a mosaic styled design for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog of a woman holding a miniature McCormick grain... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for motion pictures [movies] shown "free to farmers and their families." Bears the text: "A Visit to a Modern Tractor Plant; The Making ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Advertising handbill for the Champion harvester and binder. Includes the text: "the Champion light binder, is the only simple, light, durable, efficient wo... |
| Date: | 09 1908 |
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| Description: | McCormick Works employee Peter Butzen with paint can and brush, applying pin-stripes to binder parts. He is posing with mower drivetrains hanging from hook... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of an advertising catalog for A. Harris, Son & Company of Brantford, Canada, manufacturers of grain binders, mowers and reapers. The c... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. At the center is a portrait of Cyrus McCormick inside an egg shape with... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a brochure advertising the Case Centennial Plow. The brochure is titled "Plows on Parade" and tells the history of the steel plow business t... |
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| Description: | Flyer for a Plano grain binder, featuring a caricature of a competitor's machine, manufactured by "Horsekiller & Co." The message is that the Plano binder... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A worker is standing at a workbench in a shop at the Chattanooga Plow Works. The man may be testing implement parts. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Advertising illustration showing a farmer using a horse and plow in a field while the image of a tractor and the word "kerosene" is floating above in the s... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Scene from the film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the building of the first practical reaper on the McCormick farm in Virginia. Actors playing the parts ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | Engraving of a farm with an Eclipse windmill. There is a cutaway view of the building beneath showing a man inside working at a saw. Another man is working... |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of an advertisement featuring two film strips with scenes from the movies "The Strong Shall be Free" and "The Marines Have Landed." The m... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the "Romance of the Reaper" film for use in Australia. The poster features an illustration of Cyrus Hall McCormick building the firs... |
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