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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...
Print

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ...
Poster

Champion Harvesting Machines Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising poster for Champion brand agricultural machines, manufactured by Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company. The main illustration depicts a salesma...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Milwaukee Grain Binder

Date: 1915
Description: Two men and a child, all wearing hats, are at the back of a Milwaukee grain binder. One man is standing with a cradle in his hands. An older man with a bea...
Photograph

Osborne Spring Tooth Harrow

Date: 05 29 1912
Description: Farmer wearing a hat is walks=ing behind a horse-drawn Osborne spring tooth harrow in a field. Trees and a fence are in the background.
Photograph

Men with McCormick Harvester

Date: 1899
Description: A man is operating a McCormick self-binding harvester driven by two horses, while two men are standing beside him in a field. The harvester was built in 18...
Photograph

McCormick Wire Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A group of farmers are using a McCormick wire grain binder, built in 1876. A horse-drawn carriage is in the background. The original caption reads: "The im...
Photograph

Man with Horse at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1907
Description: A man wearing a hat holds the reins of a work horse in front of a wood-sided building. The photograph's caption reads: "Milwaukee Works, Work Horses, Morit...
Photograph

North First Street Livery

Date: 
Description: Jacob Jossi building with man sitting on horse-drawn wagon in open doorway. A buggy is parked in front of G.W. Evans Livery. The steeple of a church buildi...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from rear of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder on the Gary Owen farm. A farmhouse and windmill are in the far background.
Photograph

Man on Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man wearing a hat with a wide band is sitting on a horse-drawn grain binder in a field. Both horses are wearing blinders and are covered with blankets.
Photograph

Large Haying Operation

Date: 1900
Description: Men working on haying operation in a field. Two men are driving horse-drawn wagons piled high with hay. One man is standing near one wagon holding an imple...
Photograph

Four Pine Farm Wagon

Date: 1919
Description: Side view of a man sitting on a one-horse wagon used by Four Pine Farm. The side of the wagon reads: "Peter Schuttler."
Photograph

Farmer Picking Corn by Hand

Date: 1911
Description: A farmer wearing a straw hat and smoking a pipe examining or picking corn. Behind him is a team of horses pulling a wagon.
Photograph

Man and Child with Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe is raking cut stalks from a binder as a boy is riding a horse pulling the machine across a field. A windmill is stan...
Photograph

Man with McCormick Mower

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using a team of two horses to pull a McCormick mower across a grassy area in front of a barn.
Photograph

Farmer with Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Side view of a man driving two horses to pull a McCormick corn binder through a field. Several farm buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Man with McCormick Binder and Horses

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using a McCormick grain binder pulled by two horses to work in a field on a hillside. The hill overlooks bundles of the harvested crop. In the bac...
Photograph

Saw Filer and Logging Crew

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Description: Logging crew and horses posed in snow.
Photograph

Lumber Sled

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Description: Horse-drawn lumber sled loaded with logs. Five lumbermen are standing on and near sled.

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