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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering two-row cultivators. Includes a color photograph of a man driving a cultivator behind three horses, a color illust... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Procession of child laborers carrying bundles of twine fibre (fiber) down from the mountains in the Philippines. The fibre was likely used by International... |
| Date: | 06 24 1921 |
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| Description: | Two ten-year-old boys, Paul Lannom and William Smith, posing with an International 8-16 HP tractor and McCormick binder. The boys are the grandsons of "Dad... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Advertising catalog for International Harvester's Low Cloverleaf manure spreaders. Features a color illustration of a man riding a horse-drawn manure sprea... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Three illustrations from an 1883 McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog portraying the evolution of the reaper. The first drawing is captioned: "Firs... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Front of a card advertising the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Illustrations show "primitive" harvesting methods alongside a McCormick binder and a ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Inside of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company advertising card. Features color illustrations demonstrating the development of harvesting technology, in... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Illustration from a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog showing twenty McCormick binders harvesting a large field of grain in the Red River Valley... |
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| Description: | A Phillippine Islands boy is using a sharp tool to cut down a manila plant, while another young boy is supporting it. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A manager pays a field worker on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Mr. Monroe paying the field workers." |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Four young boys ride mules in a field on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Agricultural laborers are in the background. Original caption... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A line of workers forms in front of a table on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. The workers are waiting to collect their payroll checks... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A boy removing layers from a manila plant in the Philippine Islands. Another boy is carrying parts of the stripped plant over his right shoulder. |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | County farm extension agent talks with Potato World employees. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A customer offers payment for fruit to a woman sitting at a small desk inside an orchard shed. Multiple rows of bushel baskets filled with peaches are line... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering tractor mowers and sweep rakes, featuring a photo of men mowing a field with a Farmall tractor and m... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration for a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Features a drawing of men holding grain cradles in a wheat fie... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for Farmall A tractors, featuring a photograph of a man operating a Farmall A tractor with attached cultivator in a field.... |
| Date: | 09 1923 |
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| Description: | Men looking through baskets of peaches in an open shed, where fruit was sold by the bushel. Others stand nearby. Original caption reads: "Selling peaches a... |
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