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"McCormick's Machines" Advertising Poster

Date: 1870
Description: Advertising poster depicting a mower, reaper, hay wagon, and family picnic in a rural setting. Printed by Edward Mendel for C.H. McCormick & Bro. Includes ...
Poster

Battle of Gettysburg Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Color lithographed color advertising poster showing a McCormick grain binder at the Civil War battle of Gettysburg. The poster was based on a cyclorama by ...
Poster

Deering Grain Binder Advertising Poster

Date: 1883
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration for the Deering All-Steel Binder with steel bundle carrier, produced by William Deering & Co. Includes an illustration ...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Photograph

Football Game at Hillside Home School

Date: 
Description: A football game being played near Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Postcard

Cochrane

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of Cochrane and the surrounding landscape. There are houses, railroad tracks, distant fields, a pond and some irrigation canals. Caption read...
Postcard

Holy Hill

Date: 1920
Description: View of Holy Hill, with a field and the Hillside Hotel in the foreground. Captions read: "America's Favorite Place of Pilgrimage" and "The Holy Hill and Hi...
Poster

Battle of Gettysburg Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Lithographed advertising poster showing a McCormick grain binder at the Civil War battle of Gettysburg. The poster was based on a cyclorama by French artis...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Fertile Lands with Potato

Date: 1910
Description: A giant, oddly-shaped potato rests on a flatbed railroad car. A horse-drawn carriage with a driver is visible behind the train. White bags filled with pota...
Poster

McCormick 10-20 and 15-30 Tractors Advertising Poster

Date: 1938
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick 10-20 and 15-30 tractors. The poster features a color illustration of each of the tractors, and photographs of men using t...
Print

Railroad Lands Advertisement

Date: 
Description: Advertising card for Wisconsin Central Railroad land for sale at $5 an acre.
Print

McCormick Family Farm

Date: 1885
Description: Engraved illustration of "Walnut Grove," the "homestead of the McCormick family" in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick developed the first s...
Print

McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1885
Description: Engraved illustration of a man operating a horse-drawn McCormick harvester and twine binder in a field.
Postcard

Farmer with Cows

Date: 02 1910
Description: Farmer and two cows standing outside near a barn in winter.
Photograph

Natural Meadow

Date: 1914
Description: View of clumps of grasses in a meadow with a handful of trees in the background.
Photograph

Wisconsin Grasses

Date: 1914
Description: View of piles of cut grass in a field. Men on a wagon with a heavy load of hay pulled by a horse can be seen in the background.
Photograph

Building a Silo

Date: 1914
Description: Men using a hoist to lift a panel onto the side of a silo. The silo is next to a barn with a gambrel roof and a cupola.
Book or Pamphlet

Snow Removal Advertising Catalog

Date: 1935
Description: Cover of an International Harvester advertising catalog for snow removal equipment. An illustration depicts a man operating an industrial tractor equipped ...
Print

International Mower Attachment Advertising Brochure

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of an International brochure for mower attachments. Features a photograph of a man mowing along the side of a road or highway in a rural area. Text o...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Moldboard and Disk Plows Catalog Cover

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog featuring both moldboard and disk plows. Features a photograph from the rear of a man driving a tractor with a plow through...

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