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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

"You Can't Saw Wood with a Hammer"

Date: 1910
Description: Photo montage, with a sign reading "You can't saw wood with a hammer," along with a machine part, and a young man. The photograph may have been taken at In...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Dealers with Milk Cooler

Date: 12 02 1936
Description: Day and Perkins, McCormick-Deering dealers, stand by a milk cooler and milking machines in their dealership showroom.
Print

"A Lesson in Arithmatic" Happy Farmer Tractor Advertising

Date: 1917
Description: The cover of a La Crosse Tractor advertisement from M. Maloney Company, Syracuse, N.Y.
Book or Pamphlet

Single Mower Advertising Booklet

Date: 1862
Description: Cover of an advertising booklet for John H. Manny's Single Mower. It features an illustration of men using the mower, surrounded by informative text.
Photograph

Tractor on Display in Dealership Showroom

Date: 1944
Description: Dealership show room filled with farm equipment and a Farmall M tractor at F.G. Taylor Farm Equipment Co. A banner over a window reads: "FARMALL OFFERS SMO...
Photograph

Farm Scene

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Description: Three farmers scattered around a field strewn with piles of hay, and a man standing on a pile of hay on a wagon. There is a farmhouse and other buildings i...
Photograph

"Tired Haymakers"

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Description: Four children pose for a photograph, one holding a large wooden rake, while playing in the hay. Photograph published by C. E. Browne. Text in upper left co...
Photograph

Father and Son with Tractor Outside Residence

Date: 1915
Description: Father and son outside a house with a Mogul 8-16 tractor.
Photograph

Mogul 8-16 Tractor and Plow

Date: 1915
Description: Man plowing a field with a Mogul 8-16 tractor.
Photograph

Mogul 8-16 Tractor and Plow

Date: 1915
Description: Man plowing with a Mogul 8-16 tractor.
Photograph

Four Workers Seated Below Parts Display

Date: 1910
Description: Factory workers sit on a wooden bench with a large wheel or gear resting on their legs below a display of implement parts, most likely at International Har...
Photograph

Interior View of Osbourne Factory

Date: 10 04 1907
Description: A man is standing in the middle aisle of a factory floor. To either side of him are stacked implement parts. To the right two men are at work stations. All...
Photograph

Agricultural Manufacturing at Osborne Works

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Description: Agricultural machinery parts hang from hooks on a track suspended from a ceiling and winding around a factory floor at International Harvester's Osborne Wo...
Photograph

Loading Dock and Train at Osborne Works

Date: 1907
Description: View down platform of train stopped at a loading dock at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). On the dock is a large stac...
Photograph

Factory Workers Among Hanging Implement Parts

Date: 1907
Description: Factory workers are standing among implement parts hanging from hooks suspended from a track on the ceiling at International Harvester's Osborne Works (lat...
Photograph

Man Working a Field with a Walking Cultivator

Date: 1910
Description: A man dressed in overalls and a hat is standing behind a horse-drawn walking cultivator in a field.
Photograph

Man Sitting on a New Osborne Tedder

Date: 09 26 1913
Description: A man dressed in a suit and hat is sitting on a New Osborne hay tedder at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). On the rig...
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.
Photograph

Two Men with a New Osborne Tedder

Date: 06 09 1911
Description: A man sits on a New Osbourne six-fork hay tedder with his back to the camera at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). He i...

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