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Farm Laborers with Reaper

Date: 
Description: A crew of farm laborers taking a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman is offering food and drinks. They are posing in front of a reaper with the...
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...
Book or Pamphlet

William Deering and Company Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering and Company farm machinery. Features an illustration of a young woman in a wheat field surrounded by bi...
Photograph

Farmer on Horse-Drawn Grain Binder

Date: 1899
Description: View from a distance of a farmer posing on a McCormick grain binder drawn by two horses in a wheat field. Two men in suits are posing next to a bundle of w...
Photograph

Farmer Operating Corn Binder

Date: 1914
Description: A man operates a horse-drawn corn binder in a field while others load stalks into wagons. A silo and two barns are in the background.
Photograph

Man and Boy on Manure Spreader in Field

Date: 1911
Description: Man and boy (possibly father and son) on farmland near a cornfield operating a horse-drawn No. 3 Clover Leaf manure spreader. A barn is in the background.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Side view of a man using two horses to pull a McCormick grain binder through a farm field. A barn and farmhouse are in the background on a hill.
Photograph

McCormick Binders on Hillside

Date: 1900
Description: Two farmers are using McCormick grain binders along the side of a steep hill overlooking farm buildings below.
Photograph

McCormick Binder near Children in Wheat Field

Date: 1900
Description: Four small children are sitting on shocks of wheat in a field as a man is operating a McCormick grain binder nearby. Farm buildings and a fence are in the ...
Photograph

Group of Men Posing in Field with Three Grain Binders

Date: 1895
Description: A large group of men, mostly African American, posing in a field with three McCormick grain binders. Each binder is being operated by a man and is pulled b...
Print

McCormick Advertisement — "Take It Cool"

Date: 1897
Description: An advertisement designed with images of three hand fans decorated with scenes of farmers using McCormick farming machinery. A ribbon across the bottom car...
Photograph

Group of People Posing with Farm Equipment

Date: 1900
Description: A group of people are posing in a field near a barn. They are harvesting grain, and a man is operating a grain binder pulled by three horses. A girl wearin...
Historical Object

McCormick Woodcut

Date: 
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Heider Tractor

Date: 1915
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet for Heider tractors featuring a color illustration of a man gathering wheat in the foreground, and another farmer usi...
Book or Pamphlet

Pages from The Oliver Alphabet

Date: 1889
Description: Interior pages of the pamplet, with illustrations for the letter "H" and "I."
Book or Pamphlet

Peerless Reaper Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1880
Description: Catalog cover with gold and black ink illustrations. In the center a woman standing on a globe of the earth carries a sheaf of wheat on her shoulder and a ...
Photograph

Women Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter rear view from left of a woman using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field. The horses are wearing blankets. Farm buildings are in the ba...
Photograph

Four Young Girls near Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man posing on a horse-drawn McCormick binder. Nearby on the right four young girls are sitting in the field on sheaves of wheat. In the back...

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