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Testing Spring Teeth at Osborne Works

Date: 03 18 1913
Description: Factory workers testing newly manufactured harrow spring teeth at International Harvester's Osborne Works. The factory was owned by the D.M. Osborne Compan...
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Salesman Demonstrates Milker to Customer

Date: 11 22 1937
Description: Salesman Claude De Kay demonstrating the functionality of a McCormick-Deering milker to customer H.M. Arnold against the backdrop of the store's plate glas...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of Christopher Columbus and hi...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne World's Fair Souvenir

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back of an advertising folder produced by the D.M. Osborne Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features illustrations of a young gi...
Photograph

G.A.R. Soldiers Home

Date: 1899
Description: A man is sitting on a horse-drawn mower and posing in front of a building with the words "G.A.R./Soldiers Home/of NY" imprinted in brick on the front facad...
Photograph

Pine Tree Stock Farm Equipment

Date: 1938
Description: Equipment owned by the Pine Tree Stock Farm is displayed outside a barn. The original caption describes the equipment shown as a "D-30 M.T. [motor truck], ...
Photograph

Man and Girl with McCormick Milkers

Date: 1937
Description: A man crouches beside a McCormick single-unit milker outside a barn, while a young girl standing next to him holds the tubes of another milker in her hands...
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Milking Machine Sale

Date: 06 03 1937
Description: Ralph Lower, dairy equipment salesman from International Harvester's Syracuse branch, sells a farmer a milking machine at Cedardale Stock Farm. A McCormick...
Photograph

Men with Double Unit Milkers

Date: 07 01 1936
Description: Three men stand between two rows of cows in a barn on the H.C. Slocum farm. The man on the left carries a metal pail, while the man on the right and the ma...
Photograph

Grain Binder and Barn in a Field

Date: 08 02 1910
Description: A grain binder (likely an Osborne) sitting in a field near a barn filled with piles of hay and a cart.
Print

Johnston Harvester Company Advertising Card

Date: 1876
Description: Advertising card with a color illustration of a man using the Johnston Light Combine in a field with two horses. The back of the card describes the agricul...
Photograph

Fertilizer Attachments Crated for Shipping

Date: 10 13 1936
Description: Two McCormick-Deering fertilizer attachments crated for shipping.
Photograph

Large Crowd in front of Dealership

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Description: Large crowd in front of dealership, with products on dipslay, including horse-drawn manure spreaders. Sign in front: "Osgood US Standard Binghamton, NY."
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Large Crowd in front of Dealership

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Description: View towards a large crowd on the porch of a dealership. There is a sign on the ground in front of the building, perhaps over a scale, that reads: "Osgood ...
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Man on Horse-Drawn Manure Spreader in front of Dealership

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Description: View towards a man standing on a horse-drawn manure spreader on the left. In the background is a dealership, with a sign above the porch of the building th...

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