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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

Milwaukee Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Front cover of a German language advertising catalog for International Harvester's Milwaukee line of harvesting machinery. Features a chromolithograph illu...
Photograph

220 Cotton Picker

Date: 1956
Description: Man harvesting cotton with a McCormick 220 cotton picker.
Photograph

Man Harvests Corn on Windy Day

Date: 10 12 1927
Description: A man picking ears of corn and tossing them into a horse-drawn McCormick-Deering farm wagon on a very windy day.
Photograph

Two Men Pick Corn in Winter

Date: 01 30 1934
Description: While snow is on the ground, two men are picking ears of corn and tossing them into a farm wagon.
Photograph

Harvesting Wheat

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Description: Several men are shown using harvesting machinery in a field of wheat. Several teams of horses are pulling the machinery.
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1983
Description: Man with cranberry rake harvesting berries on flooded marsh.
Photograph

Herb Bintzler Farm

Date: 06 1949
Description: "Workers collect bales of hay on the Herb Bintzler farm, which is located on Hwy 41 (Hwy 175 today), south of Theresa."
Historical Object

McCormick Woodcut

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Description: Original woodcut created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. It has three sections and is connected using wood splines. An ...
Historical Object

McCormick Electrotype

Date: 
Description: Electrotype created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. A woodcut was created first, the electrotype next, then the letterp...
Print

McCormick Letterpress Print of Wire Binder

Date: 1877
Description: Letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder (wire binder). The grain binder is operated by a man seated on the machine and pulled by two hor...
Print

The Mail Plane

Date: 
Description: Engraved print depicting two people harvesting grain along a fence line in a field. One person holds a scythe while the other carries a bucket, possibly th...
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. Piles of sheaves are dotted throughout the hilly field. Hills and trees are in the far ...
Photograph

Silaging Operation

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of a silaging operation. The husker and shredders are belt-driven with the belt is in the foreground. Men are on wagons piled with s...
Photograph

Silaging Operation

Date: 1900
Description: View across snowy field towards men engaged in a silaging operation with a tractor powered husker and shredder. Three men are standing on horse-drawn wagon...
Photograph

Man Loading Hay onto Wagon

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a man standing on a large haystack forking hay onto a wagon. There are also large haystacks on the right and left.
Photograph

Farmall H Tractor with 14P Corn Picker

Date: 1947
Description: Elevated view from front of a man driving a Farmall H tractor with a 14P corn picker in a cornfield. A light dusting of snow is in the field.
Photograph

Man Using Farmall H Tractor with No. 62 Combine

Date: 1941
Description: Left side profile view of a man driving a Farmall H tractor pulling a No. 62 combine on the farm of L.O. Norquist.
Photograph

Haying

Date: 1950
Description: Haying on the farm with dramatic clouds in the background. The John Deere tractor is pulling the chopper as it empties into a wagon.
Photograph

Racing the Storm

Date: 1976
Description: Farmers head for the barn with a load of hay bales as a storm looms overhead. A hay baler is hitched between the tractor and the wagon. Farm buildings are ...

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