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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

Mary Shaughnessy

Date: 1954
Description: Mrs. Mary Shaughnessy standing in front of barn where men are loading the silo. Her farm was on the site where Granville School was later built.
Photograph

N.C. Wyeth Depiction of McCormick Reaper Demonstration

Date: 1931
Description: Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Header and Header Binder Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of headers and header binders. Features a color chromolithograph illustrat...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Front cover of a Canadian advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of harvesting machines, tillage and seeding implements. Features a...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller and Company Advertising Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for Aultman, Miller and Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment. Features a chromolithograph of a woman sit...
Photograph

"Tracto" the "Talking" Robot Holding Child

Date: 07 27 1960
Description: A young girl eating a lollipop is perched in the crook of the arm of "Tracto," a robot made of tractor parts. Tracto was part of International Harvester ex...
Photograph

Girl with "Tracto" the "Talking" Robot

Date: 07 27 1960
Description: A young girl with a lollipop looks up at "Tracto," a robot made of tractor parts for International Harvester's exhibits at state fairs. From the original...
Photograph

Lillian Anderson

Date: 06 30 1933
Description: Lillian Anderson of Racine, Wisconsin, Queen of the "A Century of Progress" world's fair, sitting behind the wheel of a Farmall F-12 tractor in the Interna...
Photograph

Lillian Anderson on a W-30 Tractor at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 06 30 1933
Description: Queen of the "A Century of Progress" exhibition, Lillian Anderson of Racine, Wisconsin, poses behind the wheel of a McCormick-Deering W-30 tractor in the I...
Photograph

Mrs. Frank Bohn with Farmall Tractor

Date: 08 19 1937
Description: Mrs. Frank Bohn sits behind the wheel of a Farmall F-20 tractor.
Photograph

Two Boys and a Woman Holding Milking Machinery

Date: 10 1906
Description: Two boys dressed in dark work shoes, overalls, and button-up shirts are standing on either side of a woman in front of a doorway. The woman is dressed in a...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Catalog Back Cover

Date: 1898
Description: Back cover with a color illustration of a man using a Buckeye binder in a field drawn by a team of two horses. On the left a woman wearing a dress and apro...

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