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Poster

Dodge and Stevenson Advertising Poster

Date: 1871
Description: Advertising poster for the Dodge improved combined self raking reaper and mower featuring a color illustration of a well-dressed farmer on the machine pull...
Poster

McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick brand farm implements featuring two men paddling a canoe in rough water. Also includes color illustrations of a reaper, ha...
Poster

Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
Photograph

McCormick Farmall H in Cornfield by Pond

Date: 1949
Description: Farmer using a McCormick Farmall H tractor in a cornfield near a pond. The tractor is equipped with a cultivator.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom...
Book or Pamphlet

Kemp 20th Century Manure Spreader Catalog

Date: 1913
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Kemp 20th Century (reverse apron) line of manure spreaders. Features an illustration of a man...
Photograph

Russian Man Plowing Field with Homemade Harrow

Date: 1920
Description: Man guides a homemade harrow through a field with a horse. The original caption reads: "Primitive methods of agriculture in Russia (Volga region)."
Print

Randall Harrow Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertisement for the Randall Harrow, manufactured by the Warrior Mower Company. Features a color illustration of a farmer using the harrow in a field.
Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Company New Low Manure Spreaders Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester New Low manure spreaders. Features an illustration of a man riding on a horse-drawn manure spre...
Photograph

J.A. Coon with Super C and Cultivator

Date: 1952
Description: View across field towards J.A. Coon with a McCormick Farmall Super C tractor and a C-254 cultivator. There is a pond or lake in the background. The origina...
Photograph

Side View of Super C with C-254 Cultivator

Date: 1952
Description: View towards a man using a McCormick Farmall Super C tractor with a C-254 cultivator to work in a field. There is a pond or lake in the background. The ori...
Painting

Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
Photograph

Poor Drainage in Field

Date: 1920
Description: A man is operating an International 8-16 tractor around a wet area in a field at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. On the right is a tr...
Photograph

Automatic Self-Rake Reaper

Date: 1900
Description: A man leads two horses pulling a McCormick automatic self-rake reaper through a field while another man follows behind. In the background is a river or pon...
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

McCormick Mower on Knoderer Farm

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using a 7-foot McCormick mower on hill on the farm of William Knoderer, overlooking what appears to be a body of water and farm buildings.
Photograph

S.J. Peabody Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of multiple buildings and a body of water on the farm of S.J. Peabody. Three men are riding in a horse-drawn carriage along the water in the ...
Photograph

Farmer with Water Buffalo

Date: 
Description: A Hawaiian farmer works in a field, ankle deep in water, with a water buffalo pulling a farming implement.
Photograph

Transporting Beehives at Henry's Honey Farm

Date: 
Description: Side view of a truck and flatbed trailer transporting beehives at Henry's Honey Farm. The truck is parked on a road among an open fields lined by trees. Th...

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