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Book or Pamphlet

J.F. Seiberling & Co. Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back covers of an advertising brochure for the New Empire line of mowers, reapers and grain binders manufactured by J.F. Seiberling & Company. Th...
Print

French McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1912
Description: Cover of a McCormick farm implement catalog written in French. The cover bears a color lithograph illustration of a farmer harvesting grain in a field with...
Print

Reeves Straw Stacker Advertisement

Date: 1888
Description: Advertising brochure for the Reeves Extension Oscillating Straw Stacker, with testimonial clippings. Features a color illustration top center, showing a ma...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Corn Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Deering Corn Machines manufactured by International Harvester. Features an illustration of a small bridge over a stream...
Book or Pamphlet

International Rake Hay Loader

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the International rake hay loader. Includes an photographic illustration of a man operating a rake hay loader.
Book or Pamphlet

International Rake Hay Loader Catalog Cover

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester hay loaders. Includes a photographic illustration of a man operating a hay loader.
Print

International Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 09 1952
Description: Advertising proof created by Young and Rubicam for the International Harvester Company. Features a color illustration of men in an International 1/2-ton pi...
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-Deering Farmall Tractors Advertising Poster

Date: 1926
Description: Advertising poster for Farmall tractors. Features a color illustration, on the top half, of a man using a Farmall tractor and a Farmall cultivator in a cor...
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...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Threshers

Date: 1932
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering stationary threshers featuring a color illustration of an all-steel thresher at work in a field and illustrations ...
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.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Thresher Brochure

Date: 1937
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering stationary threshers. Text encourages farmers to "Get the Extra Bushels" by using McCormick-Deering ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: A hand-colored map of Wisconsin showing the locations of cities and towns, counties, railway lines, the steamship lines in Lake Superior and lake Michigan....
Print

Tractor Tilling Newsletter

Date: 07 1917
Description: Cover of the Volume 1, Number 2 issue of Tractor Tilling newsletter, produced by the Smith Form-a-Tractor Company. The cover features a photograph o...
Print

Kardell Utility Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the Kardell Utility tractor featuring a color illustration of the tractor along with illustrations of the equipment being used for cultiv...
Photograph

Twin City 12-20 Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the Twin City 12-20 tractor featuring six photographs of the machine at work in farm fields along with the caption: "Utility, Performance...
Poster

All Working for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers," featuring an illustration of military planes flying over a man working with a Farma...
Print

Why You Should Have a Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the Illinois Super-Drive tractor with six photographs of the machinery in use on farms. The headline reads: "Here Are Reasons Why You Sho...
Book or Pamphlet

Barley and Malt Map

Date: 1952
Description: Map of the barley-growing regions of North America, published by the Rahr Malting Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1952.

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