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IH Two-Row Cultivators Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering two-row cultivators. Includes a color photograph of a man driving a cultivator behind three horses, a color illust...
Book or Pamphlet

Low Cloverleaf Manure Spreader Catalog

Date: 1917
Description: Advertising catalog for International Harvester's Low Cloverleaf manure spreaders. Features a color illustration of a man riding a horse-drawn manure sprea...
Print

The Evolution of the Reaper, Part One

Date: 1883
Description: Three illustrations from an 1883 McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog portraying the evolution of the reaper. The first drawing is captioned: "Firs...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Advertising Card

Date: 1886
Description: Front of a card advertising the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Illustrations show "primitive" harvesting methods alongside a McCormick binder and a ...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Advertising Card

Date: 1886
Description: Inside of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company advertising card. Features color illustrations demonstrating the development of harvesting technology, in...
Print

McCormick Binders Harvest in Dakota

Date: 1884
Description: Illustration from a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog showing twenty McCormick binders harvesting a large field of grain in the Red River Valley...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Sugar Beets

Date: 10 30 1909
Description: A man on a large horse-drawn cart hauls a group of giant sugar beets. The two horses are stepping onto a dirt road. An inscription in the upper left corner...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Plenty Potatoes

Date: 1912
Description: Two men, one wearing overalls and one wearing suspenders, stand on top of a mound of giant potatoes. A large cart drawn by two horses carries the potatoes ...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: This is the Kind of Peaches We Raise

Date: 1924
Description: Photomontage of three women lifting baskets filled with giant peaches. The foreground as lines with other giant peaches. The top of the image is trimmed ...
Book or Pamphlet

Picking Cotton

Date: 06 1931
Description: African Americans picking cotton on a large plantation in Virginia.
Poster

War Poster Promoting Farm Jobs

Date: 
Description: Poster depicting a young shirtless man pitching hay with text that reads: "Put your muscle on a war basis! Sign Up For A Farm Job ... at your local U.S. Em...
Poster

"Viva la Huelga!"

Date: 03 10 1971
Description: Poster promoting a demonstration in support of farm workers. Widespread strikes and demonstrations called for agricultural workers' rights. The poster adve...
Print

Tractor Mowers and Sweep Rakes Brochure

Date: 1939
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering tractor mowers and sweep rakes, featuring a photo of men mowing a field with a Farmall tractor and m...
Print

G.E. Evans Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of G.E. Evans, a grower of cultivated cranberries from New Lisbon, Wisconsin. Includes an illustration by (A.?) R.R. Richards of people working ...
Book or Pamphlet

Farmall A Tractor Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for Farmall A tractors, featuring a photograph of a man operating a Farmall A tractor with attached cultivator in a field....
Book or Pamphlet

Windrow-Baling Brochure

Date: 1941
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for balers, featuring a photograph of a man pulling a McCormick-Deering baler in a field with a Farmall A tractor.
Print

Aerial Blight Control Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of Aerial Blight Control, Inc., with a man using a hoe while a crop duster sprays the field. Farm buildings and clouds are seen in the distance....
Print

Case's Threshing Machine

Date: 1850
Description: Engraving of a man in a coat and hat feeding stalks into a thresher. The thresher is run by two horses on a treadmill at right. The grain is collected from...
Photograph

The Girl on the Land Serves the Nation's Need

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring four women in brown coats, pants, and hats walking along a field. One of the women is leading a team of two horses, two of the...

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