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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...
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)."
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

McCormick Binder on Hill Overlooking Town and Lake

Date: 1900
Description: A man is operating a McCormick horse-drawn binder on a hill with a view of a town and lake in the background.
Photograph

Man with Wagon in Mud

Date: 1912
Description: Panoramic view of man standing against fence near a horse-drawn wagon heavily loaded with dirt, with the wheels sunk deep in water-logged mud.
Photograph

Mail Carrier on Poor Quality Road

Date: 02 1915
Description: A mail carrier on horseback is approaching a stranded horse-drawn carriage along a stretch of poor quality rural road. Farmhouses and farm buildings are on...
Photograph

Mixing Pesticide for Orchard

Date: 1920
Description: Three men in an orchard mixing up chemicals to spray the trees. One of the men is on the back of a horse-drawn wagon with a barrel. The other two men are s...
Photograph

Elevated View of Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of a man using a binder in a field. Sheaves of wheat are distributed in the field, and two other men are standing near the binder. There is a...
Photograph

Man Using Binder in Field near Lake

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards man using horse-drawn binder in a field. Two other people are standing in the field, and two horses are standing on the far left....
Photograph

Man with Mower in Farmyard

Date: 1900
Description: Man with horse-drawn mower in yard of farm. There is a horse-drawn carriage on the drive in front of the large farmhouse.
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field. A man is standing in the field holding sheaves of harvested grain. In the distance are ...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field. A young boy is standing near sheaves of wheat piled in the field. In the far distance i...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field. In front of the binder is a man in a horse-drawn carriage. In the background is...
Photograph

Man on Horse-Drawn Binder Leaving Lakefront

Date: 1900
Description: View along shoreline towards man on horse-drawn McCormick binder leaving a lakefront.
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from rear of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field. In front of the horses on the left, two men are working with shocks ...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Left side view of a man wearing a straw hat posing in a field with horse-drawn binder. In the background is a fence, trees, and what may be a lake or river...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Reaper Near Lake

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a man using a horse-drawn reaper in a field. Behind him on the left is a man using a rake to bind the grain. In the background is...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Reaper Near Lake

Date: 1900
Description: Right side view of a man using a horse-drawn reaper in a field. Behind him on the left is a man. In the background is a lake.
Print

Engraving of Deering Harvester Works

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of Deering Harvester Works. Includes insets: one in the bottom left corner is of a man using a horse-drawn mower, and the one in the bottom r...

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