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Harvester-Thresher Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) showing a tractor-drawn harvester-thresher in a field under the slogan: "Once Over ...
Poster

Plano Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Advertising poster for Plano brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes featuring color illustrations of the implements and a woman holding two ho...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog

Date: 1887
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers in a field with a horse-dra...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company, featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a young boy and girl playing along ...
Print

IHC Hay Presses

Date: 1914
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for IHC hay presses featuring an illustration of a landscape of a valley with farms and fields.
Book or Pamphlet

German Flyer for Deering Grain Binders

Date: 1931
Description: German advertising leaflet for International Harvester's Deering line of grain binders. Features a color illustration of a farmer in a field with horse-dra...
Poster

International Harvester Centennial Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Poster commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the invention of the reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick (reaper centennial). The poster features a color repro...
Postcard

Threshing Time on the Old Farm

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored postcard showing a farm crew with horses, a tractor, and other agricultural implements threshing grain crops in a field. Women in dresses pose...
Print

No. 51 Harvester-Thresher Brochure

Date: 1938
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the No. 51 harvester-thresher (combine). Includes the text: "Harvesting Hillside Crops with the McCormick-Deering No.5...
Book or Pamphlet

John S. Davis & Sons Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Catalog cover with text: "Oscillator = Thresher". Also includes color illustration of a young girl sitting on a tree swing. Behind her, men women and child...
Book or Pamphlet

William Deering & Co. Booklet

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back cover of a small booklet. The front cover has an illustration of a young girl wearing a straw hat, with the title: "A Future Customer." On t...
Book or Pamphlet

Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Front cover featuring a color illustration of wheat, clover flowers, and a calendar for 1901, around an inset illustration of a farmer working in a field w...
Postcard

Harvest Scene in Bostwick Valley

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Description: View from a hay field on a hill looking towards pastures and fields in a valley. Caption reads: "Harvest Scene in Bostwick Valley, La Crosse, Wis."
Postcard

County Road

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "County Road, Near Sparta, Wis." Elevated view of a group of people standing on an unpaved county road that runs through a cut in a hi...
Print

"Walnut Grove" — Homestead of the McCormick Family

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Description: View of Walnut Grove. Caption reads: "'Walnut Grove' — Homestead of the McCormick Family, Rockbridge Co., VA." In the foreground men are working to harvest...

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