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Reaper Centennial Medallion
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Front side of International Harvester's reaper centennial medallion (or coin), featuring an image of Cyrus Hall McCormick, the words: "Inventor of the Reape,," and his years of birth and death, 1809 and 1884.
1931
International Harvester Company
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WHi 49657
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Reaper Centennial Medallion
1931
Reverse side of the International Harvester reaper centennial medallion (or coin) showing the reaper in use, and the words: "Centennial of the Reaper, 1891-1931."
Cyrus Hall McCormick Reaper Centennial Coin
1931
Front side of a coin made for International Harvester to celebrate the "Reaper Centennial." The event commemorated the one hundred year anniversary of the testing of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall ...
Reaper Test on Centennial Coin
1931
Back side of a coin made for International Harvester to celebrate the "Reaper Centennial." The event commemorated the one hundred year anniversary of the testing of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall M...
Coin for Reaper Centennial
Coin for Reaper Centennial with portrait of C.H. McCormick, inventor of the reaper.
The Reaper Takes Form
1931
Back cover of an advertisement sheet, with a front page that reads: "International Harvester Celebrates The Invention of the Reaper". The color illustration features Cyrus Hall McCormick building t...
Cyrus Hall McCormick
1879
Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a horse-drawn machine to harvest wheat. He form...
