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Poster

McCormick "Westward" Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Advertising poster showing color illustration of pioneers on a bluff overlooking a McCormick binder harvesting grain in the valley below. The poster bears ...
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...
Photograph

Experimental Combine Harvesting Grain

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view of men harvesting grain with a McCormick-Deering 12 foot experimental combine (harvester-thresher) pulled by a Farmall M tractor. There is a ...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer ope...
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Farm Equipment Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Champion farm equipment, featuring a chromolithograph illustration of Native Americans ...
Drawing

Frederick Jackson Turner Drawing

Date: 1924
Description: A hand-drawn cartoon in crayon entitled "Westward The Course Of Empire". It features Frederick Jackson Turner on a rocking horse with a sunset in the backg...
Photograph

Experimental Harvester-Thresher

Date: 
Description: Side view of a man using an experimental No.127 SP harvester-thresher (combine) in a field. Mountains are in the far background. The original caption read...
Print

DYRR Offset Disk Harrows Catalog

Date: 1938
Description: Cover of a brochure featuring an illustration of an offset disk harrow pulled by a TracTractor (crawler tractor). In the background is a farm.
Photograph

Men Using Horse-Drawn Mowers

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of two men using horse-drawn mowers in a field. Mountains are in the far background.
Photograph

Men Using Horse-Drawn Mowers

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of two men using horse-drawn mowers in a field. Mountains are in the far background.
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across field, with mountains in the distance. On the left is a man coming down the field driving a horse-drawn binder. A man on the right appears to b...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a man using a horse-drawn mower. Two men are standing nearby. Mountains are in the far distance.
Photograph

Two Men with Farmall M Tractor and No.42 Combine Threshing Alfalfa

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of two men, Grant Porter and L.M. Porter working in a field harvesting seed from 60 of 200 acres in alfalfa. 3200 acre ...
Photograph

Two Men Using Farmall A Tractor with No.61 Combine

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of two men working in a field with a Farmall A tractor and No. 61 combine in a field of Great Northern beans on 100-acre ...
Photograph

Two Men Using Farmall A Tractor with Combine in Field

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of two men harvesting Great Northern beans in a field in the Big Horn Basin. One man drives the Farmall A tractor, and ...

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