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Poster

McCormick-Deering Thresher Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Poster advertising all-steel threshers, featuring a color illustration of the machine in use. Also included is an illustration showing both faces of the Mc...
Poster

Spanish-Language McCormick Advertising Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Spanish-language poster intended for use in South America advertising the McCormick Number 10 harvester-thresher (combine). The poster features several col...
Poster

'El Picaflor' Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Spanish advertising poster for use in South American advertising the McCormick "Hummingbird" grain header. The poster features two color illustrations of t...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Tillage Tools

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for tillage tools, featuring a photo of a man in a field with a Farmall M tractor and a disk harrow. Also includes the text...
Book or Pamphlet

Remy Tractor Division Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by the Remy Electric Company's Tractor Equipment Division advertising "An Easier Day's Work" through the use of farm mac...
Book or Pamphlet

Samson Tractor Harrow Brochure

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by the Samson Tractor Company, a division of General Motors Corporation, to advertise the Samson Tractor Harrow. The cov...
Book or Pamphlet

Short Turn Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet produced by the Short Turn Tractor Company. The cover features a photograph of a tractor completing work in a field, ...
Print

Waring Tractor-Cultivator Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Page of a mailer produced by the Smith-Waring Corporation of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to advertise the Waring tractor-cultivator. The advertisement feature...
Book or Pamphlet

Moline Power Mower No. 4

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Moline Number 4 mower. The pamphlet features a photograph of a man using the mower in a field.
Book or Pamphlet

Moline-Universal Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Interior pages of a pamphlet advertising the Moline-Universal tractor, featuring photographs of men using the equipment in farm fields in different states ...
Print

Kardell Utility Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the Kardell Utility tractor featuring a color illustration of the tractor along with illustrations of the equipment being used for cultiv...
Book or Pamphlet

Motor Cultivation

Date: 1920
Description: Interior pages of a pamphlet advertising the Parrett tractor titled: "The Need for Motor Cultivation." The pamphlet features three photographs of the tract...
Photograph

Twin City 12-20 Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the Twin City 12-20 tractor featuring six photographs of the machine at work in farm fields along with the caption: "Utility, Performance...
Book or Pamphlet

Dart Farm Tractors and Motor Trucks

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of an advertisement for Dart farm tractors and motor trucks featuring a photograph of farmers using a Dart tractor to power another piece of eq...
Print

John Deere Branch Houses

Date: 1928
Description: Back cover of a booklet advertising the John Deere Waterloo Boy tractor with a listing of John Deere branch houses. The John Deere trademark is at lower ri...
Book or Pamphlet

Allis-Chalmers General Purpose Farm Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising: "A Real General Purpose Farm Tractor." The illustration shows a man using a tractor to work in a farm field with bar...
Print

Cletrac Farming is Better Farming

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the Cletrac tank-type crawler tractor featuring illustrations of the machine in use in farm fields; the image at left depicts plowing whi...
Print

GMC Samson Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Back cover of a booklet advertising the GMC Samson tractor with "sieve-grip." The photograph depicts two men using a Samson tractor and a plow in a field.
Print

King Corn

Date: 1901
Description: Advertisement for the grand exhibition of the McCormick corn binder, endorsed by "King Corn." Features an illustration of a Native American man and a photo...
Print

Gray Tractor Demonstration

Date: 1920
Description: Color illustration of two men with Gray tractors in a cornfield. The caption reads: "This photo of Gray Tractors in a corn field shows the remarkable rolli...

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