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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...
Poster

Gasoline Engine

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster of an International gasoline engine serving many functions, with an address for Budapest, Hungary. The poster was printed by the H...
Poster

Gasoline Engine

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster of an International gasoline engine serving many functions on the farm. Includes a large bird's-eye view of a farm, surrounded by ...
Photograph

People in Field with House in Background

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Description: A man rides a haymower while two women milk a cow nearby. Other farmhands ride wagons and behind them is a double house.
Painting

Residence of Mr. Martin Lutscher

Date: 1875
Description: Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s...
Poster

International Tractor and Engine Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for International tractors and engines featuring an illustration of a farmer using a cultivator in a field beside a herd of cows. The ma...
Poster

IHC Gasoline Engine Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for International Harvester stationary, portable and traction engines. Features color illustrations of engines and tractors in a number ...
Painting

Seifert Painting

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of farm.
Photograph

Farmer Helping Newborn Calf in Field

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Description: A farmer helps a newborn calf in a field. The farmer is bending over the calf while the mother cow watches.
Photograph

Farmer Lifting Newborn Calf to its Feet

Date: 
Description: A farmer cradles and lifts a newborn calf to its feet in a field while the mother stands nearby.
Photograph

Farmer Steadying Newborn Calf in Field

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Description: A farmer holds a newborn calf steady as it stands with its mother in an open field. The mother cow nuzzles the calf.
Photograph

Men Driving Teams of Horses in a Field

Date: 1914
Description: Two men are using teams of horses to pull a hay rake on the left, and a mower on the right. There are farm buildings and cows beyond a fence in the backgr...
Historical Object

McCormick Woodcut

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Description: Original woodcut created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. It has three sections and is connected using wood splines. An ...
Historical Object

McCormick Electrotype

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Description: Electrotype created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. A woodcut was created first, the electrotype next, then the letterp...
Print

McCormick Letterpress Print of Wire Binder

Date: 1877
Description: Letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder (wire binder). The grain binder is operated by a man seated on the machine and pulled by two hor...
Print

Hart-Parr Advertisement

Date: 1925
Description: Front cover of a Hart-Parr advertising booklet featuring a color illustration of a farmer using the Hart-Parr 30 tractor to work in a field on a farmstead,...
Book or Pamphlet

Pages from The Oliver Alphabet

Date: 1889
Description: Interior pages of the pamplet, with illustrations for the letter "H" and "I."
Magazine or Periodical

AL-110 Truck Loaded with Hay

Date: 1950
Description: AL-110 truck loaded with hay, with a man feeding cattle from the truck bed. A farm is in the background. Original caption reads, "The utility truck, an Aus...
Photograph

Herding Cows

Date: 1908
Description: Jennie, Edgar, and August Krueger herding a group of four cows in a pasture. The bull in the middle has a long chain attached to its nose. Edgar and Jennie...
Photograph

Cattle in Pasture near Farm Buildings

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Description: View across field towards cattle in a pasture. There is a farmhouse on the left, and farm buildings in the center. A farmer stands in the field on the left...

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