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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

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

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog

Date: 1887
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers in a field with a horse-dra...
Book or Pamphlet

Whitely, Fassler & Kelly Catalog

Date: 1882
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Champion line of harvesting machines manufactured by Whitely, Fassler & Kelly. The cover features a colored illustr...
Print

Marsh Binder Advertisement

Date: 1883
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for the Marsh-Whitney Platform Binder, manufactured by the Marsh Binder Manufacturing Company. Includes the text: "t...
Poster

Deering Harvester Advertising Poster

Date: 1899
Description: Advertising poster featuring color illustation of three men and a dog watching a farmer harvest grain with a horse-drawn Deering Ideal grain binder. The me...
Photograph

McCormick Wire Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A group of farmers are using a McCormick wire grain binder, built in 1876. A horse-drawn carriage is in the background. The original caption reads: "The im...
Photograph

Bearded Man on Horse-Drawn Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Side view of a bearded man wearing a braided hat operating a McCormick grain binder in a field.
Photograph

Men Harvesting Grain in Field

Date: 
Description: Group of men harvesting grain with two McCormick grain binders drawn by horses or mules. In the background are farm buildings and stacks of grain.
Photograph

Large Haying Operation

Date: 1900
Description: Men working on haying operation in a field. Two men are driving horse-drawn wagons piled high with hay. One man is standing near one wagon holding an imple...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Grain Binder

Date: 1919
Description: Farmer operating an older model horse-drawn grain binder in a field.
Photograph

Picking Oranges in Southern California

Date: 
Description: Three men picking oranges in an orchard. Two of the men use ladders to pick the fruit, and another stands on the ground nearby. Caption reads: "Picking Ora...
Photograph

Picking Oranges in Southern California

Date: 
Description: Three men are shown picking oranges in an orchard. Two of the men use ladders to pick the fruit, and another stands on the ground nearby. Caption reads: "P...
Photograph

Harvest Scene

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

Picking Cotton

Date: 
Description: A group of agricultural workers picking cotton in a field.
Photograph

Three Men with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men use a McCormick grain binder in a field overlooking a body of water, probably the Saint John River, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Men an...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Power Drive Harvester-Thresher

Date: 07 06 1926
Description: Two men working with a McCormick-Deering Power Drive harvester-thresher (combine) in a field. Decals and/or stencils are on the machine.
Photograph

Man on Reynolds Tedder

Date: 1919
Description: Man on a Reynolds hay tedder pulled by team of work horses. Another man stands supervising. In the far background beyond a fence are two separate farmstead...
Photograph

Cranberry Growers

Date: 10 1984
Description: Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries.
Photograph

Group of People in Farm Field

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of people posing in a field. Part of the field has been cut and there are stacks of grain piled at regular intervals. In ...

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