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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: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer working in a field with a grain binder. A young man holds a par... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering and Company farm machinery. Features an illustration of a young woman in a wheat field surrounded by bi... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for Champion brand agricultural machines, manufactured by Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company. The main illustration depicts a salesma... |
| 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: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising card produced by William Deering (later known as William Deering and Company), manufacturer of agricultural machinery. Features at the top an i... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray collecting her pay in cash at the paymaster's office at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac located in the 1400 ... |
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| Description: | A portrait of a young woman wearing a hat and dress, and holding a bouquet of flowers, standing in a clearing. In the background is the darkroom horse-draw... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Uncle Sam stands in the foreground of an illustration promoting victory gardens and shakes the hand of a farmer with a hoe in his hand. Three women work in... |
| Date: | 12 1928 |
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| Description: | Cameramen staging a shot of a man and woman on a Farmall Regular tractor in front of farmhouse at an International Harvester demonstration farm in Gull Lak... |
| 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: | 04 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of street scene of a run on the First National Bank. The sidewalk is crowded with people, spilling into the street. A horse-drawn buggy is dr... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the World Harvester Corporation's auto-tiller featuring a photograph of a woman using the machine in a field. The caption reads: "The fir... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Miss Clara Morris, actress, poses beside a Yuba tractor in a farm field in "The Yuba Bulletin." |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a booklet advertising the Cletrac tank-type tractor. The booklet is titled "Selecting Your Tractor" and features a color illustration of a f... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Back cover with a color illustration of a man using a Buckeye binder in a field drawn by a team of two horses. On the left a woman wearing a dress and apro... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Front and back of advertising cards for the Excelsior Gleaner and Binder. Front features illustrations of a man using the machinery in a field. The back fe... |
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