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Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1886
Description: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company annual catalog cover featuring an illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat. Below the text reads: "Harvesting...
Photograph

Cyrus McCormick's Reaper Patent

Date: 1834
Description: Press release image compiled by the International Harvester Company. The image includes "excerpts of the patent grant from the U.S. Patent Office to Cyrus ...
Painting

Cyrus Hall McCormick

Date: 1884
Description: Color portrait of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), possibly by Lawton S. Parker.
Photograph

McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1847
Description: Engraving of the McCormick Reaper Works as it appeared in 1847. The factory was located on the north bank of the Chicago River, east of the Michigan Avenue...
Photograph

McCormick Reaper Works "Rest Room"

Date: 1899
Description: Two women sitting in the "rest room" at the McCormick Reaper Works. A piano is in the background.
Photograph

McCormick Advance Reaper

Date: 1899
Description: Farmer with horse-drawn McCormick Advance reaper built 1870-1871.
Photograph

McCormick Automatic Self-Rake Reaper

Date: 1899
Description: McCormick automatic self-rake reaper built in 1858 and patented by McClintock Young. Original caption reads: "This machine embodies the improvement of subs...
Photograph

McCormick Harvester and Twine Binder

Date: 1899
Description: Farmer harvesting grain with McCormick grain binder built in 1883. Original caption reads: "The frame was made entirely of wood, iron being used only for g...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Bindlochine Catalog Cover

Date: 1892
Description: Front cover of a catalog for the McCormick Bindlochine (grain binder). The color illustration features two small boys playing with a toy binder and horse m...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. At the center is a portrait of Cyrus McCormick inside an egg shape with...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company, manufacturers of harvesting machinery. The cover features a framed inset of a scene of...
Manuscript

Prairie Breaking Plow

Date: 1894
Description: Illustration of a "Prairie Breaking Plow" of the 1840s. Includes the text: "Prairie Breaking Plow of 50 Years Ago."
Photograph

Man with Experimental Automobile

Date: 1892
Description: George Ellis is standing beside an experimental automobile, possibly in the basement of John F. Steward. Both men worked for the Deering Harvester Company ...
Photograph

Men Posing with McCormick Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A group of five men are standing and sitting around a McCormick grain binder.
Photograph

Experimental Tractor

Date: 1896
Description: 40 H.P. experimental tractor. Original caption reads: "40 H.P., Built in 1896."
Photograph

Self-Binding Harvester

Date: 1899
Description: A man is operating a McCormick grain binder pulled by two horses. The original caption reads: "This machine represents the modern harvester by which grain ...
Photograph

Men with Self-Binding Harvester

Date: 1899
Description: Two men are operating a horse-drawn McCormick twine grain binder in a field.
Photograph

McCormick Wire Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A man is operating a McCormick wire binder driven by two horses.
Photograph

Man with McCormick Wire Binder

Date: 1899
Description: Man operating a McCormick wire binder driven by two horses through a field.
Photograph

Men with McCormick Harvester

Date: 1899
Description: A man is operating a McCormick self-binding harvester driven by two horses, while two men are standing beside him in a field. The harvester was built in 18...

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