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Poster

McCormick Grain Binder Advertising Poster

Date: 1882
Description: Advertising poster for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company featuring a color illustration of a well-dressed farmer riding a binder pulled by two horse...
Book or Pamphlet

Cover of German McCormick Catalog

Date: 1915
Description: Drawing on front cover of German McCormick catalog depicting a farmer on a horse-drawn binder in a field next to rolling hills with trees.
Photograph

Steam Tractor with Sod-breaking Plows

Date: 
Description: Two men are posing standing on a steam tractor on the right, probably a Linnell, attached to sod-breaking plows steered by two men on the left. Behind them...
Photograph

Men in Field Pointing at Livestock

Date: 
Description: Two men are in a field in the foreground, one sitting in a carriage, one standing next to it, and both men pointing to the background. There we see cows, h...
Photograph

Haying Operations

Date: 07 1945
Description: View from front of two men wearing hats standing atop a wagon piled with hay that is being pulled across a partially cut hay field by two horses.
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

Man with Push Binder in Field

Date: 1902
Description: Man harvesting grain in a field with a horse-powered push binder. Another man with a horse-drawn carriage is in the distance. An umbrella reads: "J.T. Lob...
Photograph

Man with Push Binder in Field

Date: 1902
Description: Man harvesting grain in a field with a horse-powered push binder. Another man with a horse-drawn carriage is in the distance. An umbrella reads: "J.T. Loba...
Photograph

Men with Grain Binder in Field

Date: 1902
Description: Men with a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder and horse-drawn carriage in a field.
Photograph

Harvesting Grain into Horse-drawn Wagons

Date: 
Description: View across field of two men pitching grain into horse-drawn wagons. Between the two wagons is a man in a horse-drawn carriage. In the far background is an...
Postcard

Hauling Milk at Hering Farm

Date: 
Description: Robert Carl Hering and his son Alexander Hering are standing next to a horse-drawn wagon filled with milk containers. Farm buildings are in the background....
Drawing

Threshing

Date: 1945
Description: A threshing scene in a field. One man pitches grain into a threshing machine while standing on the load of grain in the wagon pulled by two horses. A secon...
Photograph

Threshing Scene

Date: 
Description: A scene in a field of men posing on and near a thresher. A man sits on a wagon with four or five pairs of horses standing around him. There is an oval-shap...
Photograph

Group of Men with Binders and Carriage

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of men standing in a field near a man using a horse-drawn binder in a field. In the background two men are sitting in a horse-drawn carriage...
Photograph

Man in Field Using Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Left side view of a man using a horse-drawn mower in a field. A horse-drawn carriage is in the background on the right, and houses are in the far backgroun...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: People are gathered in a field near a man using a horse-drawn mower in a field. There are horse-drawn buggies and farm buildings on the left.
Photograph

Group of Men Posing near Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of a man in a horse-drawn buggy posing on the left, a group of three men with a dog in the middle, and on the right a man on a horse-drawn b...
Photograph

Man Posing on Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View across section of harvested field towards a man posing on a horse-drawn McCormick binder pulled by three horses. Behind him is another man in a horse-...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View of a man using a horse-drawn mower in a field. A man is standing near a horse-drawn buggy in front of the mower. Beyond the buggy on the left is a wag...
Photograph

Horse-Powered Push Binder Headers in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards men using a horse-powered push binder header. Farm buildings are in the background.

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