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Photograph

Caught at the Milk Station

Date: 1913
Description: Mr. J.E. Waggoner, International Harvester Company Agricultural Extension Dept. employee, delivering roadside alfalfa lecture to a crowd of farmers arrivin...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog

Date: 1891
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer working in a field with a grain binder. A young man holds a par...
Photograph

Experimental Motor Cultivator with Corn Binder

Date: 06 27 1919
Description: Engineering photograph of an experimental motor cultivator with a mounted ensilage cutter(?). A Deering grain binder is in the background.
Photograph

Farmall Demonstration at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 07 18 1933
Description: Two men are operating Farmall tractors and implements at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair. One tractor is pulling a disk harrow, and the other a cu...
Photograph

McCormick Offices

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view across street of a McCormick agency(?) or dealership(?) building with man visible through a window. The windows are painted with symbols and ...
Poster

Chicago and North Western Railway System Anniversary Travel Poster

Date: 1948
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the Chicago and North Western Railway's 100th Anniversary from 1848 to 1948. The poster features the artist Paul...
Photograph

North on Locust Street

Date: 1910
Description: Northern view of the Locust Street business district, with a horse-drawn cart and pedestrians in the foreground, and storefronts on the left and right. Bus...
Photograph

World's Columbian Exposition

Date: 1893
Description: A view of the World's Columbian Exposition mounted on a cardboard album page, looking east from the Transportation Building. On the right are the Mines Bui...
Drawing

Republican National Convention

Date: 06 1880
Description: Illustration of the Interstate Exposition Building,the site of the Republican National Convention.
Print

Hotel Sherman Cellar Book Menu Interior

Date: 12 05 1933
Description: First two pages of the interior of the Hotel Sherman wine list, with a woodcut of a man in a top hat, suit coat, and trousers, lying supine on the ground, ...
Photograph

Scene on the Rock River

Date: 1907
Description: View along bank of river towards a young girl walking in the grass near the shoreline. Behind her, a man and woman sit in a rowboat on the Rock River. They...
Print

Mortons Surf Club Menu Exterior

Date: 
Description: Front and back covers of the Mortons Surf Club menu, with a black on blue grid of Chicago streets from Lake Michigan to Vincennes Avenue, and E. 45th to E....
Book or Pamphlet

Emerson, Talcott & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a young man and an older woman in a clothing shop. The woman is pointing at the young man, and the sales clerk s...
Book or Pamphlet

Emerson, Talcott & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back of the catalog cover. Illustration on front shows a group of children looking and laughing at dog that has been costumed in a hat, cape and ...
Photograph

Tractor Pushed Corn Picker at McCormick Works

Date: 06 27 1919
Description: A man is sitting under an umbrella on a tractor-pushed Corn Picker in factory yard. Perhaps for research and development. There is a small building in the ...
Photograph

Tractor Pushed Corn Picker at McCormick Works

Date: 06 27 1919
Description: A man is sitting under an umbrella on a tractor-pushed Corn Picker in factory yard. Perhaps for research and development. A group of men are watching and s...

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