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Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Poster

Tractor Field Demonstration Advertising Poster

Date: 1916
Description: Advertising poster for a field demonstration of the Titan 10-20 h.p. tractor. Features a color illustration of the tractor and the text: "Know Why Before Y...
Poster

Get Under the Big Tent

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for the International Harvester exhibit at the West Michigan State Fair in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The poster features photographs of au...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering & Company Catalog

Date: 1894
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring a chromolithograph of Worlds Fair foreign commissioners observing Deering grain bin...
Print

World's First Reaper Placard

Date: 1931
Description: Placard for display with replicas of Cyrus McCormick's reaper of 1831. The replicas were produced by the International Harvester Company for the "reaper ce...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Spanish-Language Catalog Cover

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of a Spanish-language catalog for McCormick brand harvesting machinery. The color illustration shows a McCormick binder on display at the Paris Expos...
Print

McCormick Handbill Announcing Great Council Medal

Date: 01 17 1856
Description: Handbill announcing the Great Council Medal awarded to C.H. McCormick at London in 1851, "by the Exhibition of All Nations for the American Reaping Machine...
Poster

Deering Columbian Exposition Advertising Poster

Date: 1893
Description: Advertising poster featuring color illustration of a crowd gathered around a Deering grain binder and mower at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Print

International Harvester Advertising Proof

Date: 08 1979
Description: Advertising proof created by Foote, Cone & Belding for the International Harvester Company. Features a color photograph of men and women gathered around a ...
Print

International Harvester 1586 Tractor Advertising Proof

Date: 08 1978
Description: Advertising proof created by Foote, Cone & Belding for the International Harvester Company. Features a color photograph of a farmer driving an Internationa...
Print

McCormick End of the Century Catalog Cover, French Edition

Date: 1900
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration of the French edition of a McCormick catalog, showing a man driving a McCormick reaper through a parade at the 1900 Wor...
Print

McCormick Mower Advertisement

Date: 1868
Description: Page from an advertising brochure for "McCormick's Prize Mower." Includes illustrations of award medals for the Paris Exposition Universal of 1867, and a m...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Cream Separator Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering cream separators, featuring a color illustration of a cream separator in the foreground and five cow...
Print

Peoria Self-Steering Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the Peoria self-steering tractor featuring two studio photographs of the equipment and a photograph of the Peoria surrounded by farmers a...
Magazine or Periodical

Deering's Farm Journal

Date: 06 1900
Description: Front cover with two illustrations. The top illustration is of the Deering Harvester Works in Chicago. The larger illustration on the bottom is of the Main...
Book or Pamphlet

Russian Catalog Cover for The McCormick Line Of Machines

Date: 1900
Description: Front cover of catalog for Russia. Features an illustration of men and women at a fair watching an exhibition of a man driving a horse-drawn McCormick bind...

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