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Grading Rural Road with Avery Tractor
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Road workers grading a rural country road with an Avery tractor and wooden grading blocks. The image was cropped from a postcard collected by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to illustrate the condition of rural roads.
1915
International Harvester Company
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WHi 11500
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Driving Down Muddy Dirt Road
1915
Man driving an automobile down a muddy dirt road. Caption on back reads: "Grading road with surfacing." The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to d...
Driving Safety
July 1927
Automobiles approaching a turn in a paved road with billboards on either side. Photograph taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to illustrate safe driving techniques.
International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Chart Room
1925
Three graphic artists inside the Chart Room of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department at 616 S. Michigan Avenue. The men are illustrating charts on hay crops and manure product...
Poor Drainage in Field
1920
A man is operating an International 8-16 tractor around a wet area in a field at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. On the right is a tree-lined road.
Agricultural Extension Employee Setting Up Film Projector
1915
An employee of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department loads 35mm film into a movie projector.
Flooded Rural Road in Alabama
March 5, 1915
Three men are driving on a flooded rural road. Original caption reads: "In going from Fairhope, Ala. to Point Clear, Ala. the road in many places was found to be serving the double purpose of both ...
