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Photograph

N.C. Wyeth Depiction of McCormick Reaper Demonstration

Date: 1931
Description: Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh...
Photograph

Reliability Race Winner

Date: 08 1928
Description: John P. Wood of Wausau, winner of the 1928 National Air Reliability Tour, with his "Waco from Wausau." Also in the photograph are Wood's prizes: the Edsel ...
Print

Oliver Chilled Plow Works Advertisement

Date: 1883
Description: Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f...
Book or Pamphlet

R. Hornsby & Sons Catalog

Date: 12 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for R. Hornsby & Sons, Ltd., manufacturers of agricultural implements. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustr...
Photograph

Farmer's Birthday

Date: 07 07 1983
Description: John Fitzsimmons and Barton Voegeli take a break from discing the fields to eat the birthday cake that Voegeli's wife made to celebrate the occasion.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1900
Description: Front cover of a catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. The illustration portrays a little girl being frightened by a little boy. The girl ...
Photograph

Two Men in Field Shaking Hands

Date: 1922
Description: A man seated on a Deering grain binder shakes hands with a man standing and smoking a cigar. The man with the cigar may be an International Harvester deale...
Postcard

McCormick-Deering Tillage Tools

Date: 1932
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering tillage tools featuring the headline: "Wherever Crops are Grown" and a color illustration of a man using a Farmal...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Grain Binders

Date: 1932
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering featuring color illustrations of two grain binders at work in the field. The text on the poster reads, "McCormick-...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Big Ball Twine

Date: 1932
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deerings Big Ball twine. The poster features an illustration of a man using a binder in a farm field, along with insets of...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Tillage Tools

Date: 1931
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering tillage tools featuring a large illustration of a man using a tractor to pull two rotary hoes through a field. The...
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

Spanish-Language McCormick Grain Header Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Spanish-language poster intended for use in South America advertising McCormick's "Hummingbird" grain header and push binder. The headline reads: "La Nueva...
Poster

International Harvester Centennial Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Poster commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the invention of the reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick (reaper centennial). The poster features a color repro...
Book or Pamphlet

Planting and Digging Potatoes the McCormick-Deering Way

Date: 1935
Description: Cover of a catalog about "Planting and Digging Potatoes the McCormick-Deering Way." The cover has two photographs of farmers in the field with Farmall trac...
Photograph

Pioneer Days

Date: 09 1996
Description: "When Pioneer Days was celebrated, visitors were given the chance to view the community from a helicopter."
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 784-792

Date: 
Description: Although they remembered everything that could not be tolerated,
their better natures,
surfacing through waves of church-worn care,
prevailed over...
Book or Pamphlet

William Anson Wood Catalog Front and Back Cover

Date: 1880
Description: Front and back cover with gold and blue ink. On the front cover a woman representing Europa is giving a coin to another woman representing America. Other i...
Photograph

Trucks Used in Road Construction

Date: 07 25 1925
Description: View from side of road of a line of trucks on a road. There is a large piece of machinery in the background where men are working. In the background is a c...

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