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Book or Pamphlet

Guarding the Cornfields

Date: 1884
Description: Indian women standing on platforms make noise to scare birds from the cornfield.
Book or Pamphlet

J.F. Seiberling & Co. Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back covers of an advertising brochure for the New Empire line of mowers, reapers and grain binders manufactured by J.F. Seiberling & Company. Th...
Photograph

Native American with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1910
Description: A member of the Blackfoot Native American tribe uses a McCormick grain binder.
Photograph

Ho-Chunk and European American Group Cranberry Harvesting

Date: 1900
Description: A large group of Ho-Chunks and white people harvesting cranberries. The wooden boxes lying in the field were filled with the fruit and then shipped by rail...
Photograph

Three Views of the Indian Massacre

Date: 1862
Description: A composite of three views showing the siege of New Ulm on August 19 during the Indian Massacre of 1862. The lower left view depicts wagons and horses on a...
Print

King Corn

Date: 1901
Description: Advertisement for the grand exhibition of the McCormick corn binder, endorsed by "King Corn." Features an illustration of a Native American man and a photo...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1894
Description: Catalog cover featuring illustrations along with the text: "The Foreign Commisioners Visit the Northwest, and Learn Why Bonanza Farming Pays." At the top i...
Book or Pamphlet

D.S. Morgan & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1882
Description: Back cover of catalog with an illustration of two men using horse-drawn agricultural machinery in fields, while a group of Native American Indians look on....
Photograph

Men Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Men are working in a field near a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder. People are watching at the edge of the field in the background. On a hill above...
Photograph

Planting Corn

Date: 1925
Description: An unidentified Native American man posing while sitting on a corn planter pulled by a team of horses.
Photograph

Charlotte Buffalo

Date: 1920
Description: Mrs. Antoine Buffalo, Jr., posing in a field at the edge of a wood. She is a member of the Chippewa (Ojibwe) tribe, and a farmer. On the right are several ...
Map or Atlas

Recentissima Novi Orbis, Sive Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis Tabula

Date: 1685
Description: A detailed map of the western hemisphere showing cities, settlements, Native American land, rivers, lakes, mountains, the Great Lakes, and California as an...

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