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| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | A diagram of McCormick's cultivator-reaper, which was patented in 1845. The illustration, titled "The Cultivator" depicts a man using a rake to remove the ... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for E. Ball & Company, "manufacturers of The World mower and reaper, and Tornado thresher." Cover features a color illustr... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for Champion reaping and mowing machines manufactured by the Champion Machine Company. The cover features a color illustra... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for Younglove, Massey & Co., manufacturers of agricultural equipment. The cover features an engraved illustration of a hors... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | McCormick self-rake reaper as manufactured in the 1860s. The reaper is sitting in the yard of the McCormick Reaper Works (factory). Original caption reads:... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Edge T. Cope & Son reaper, with views of the side and rear delivery. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Advertising brochure for Russell & Company's Ohio Reaper and Mower, distributed by Chas. A. Taylor, agent for Peoria, Illinois. Features an illustration of... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Directions for putting together and operating McCormick's Reaping and Mowing Machine. Features labeled drawings of the machine set up as a reaper and as a ... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | McCormick self-delivery [self-rake] reaper with buildings in the background. The reaper appears to be the model that Cyrus McCormick displayed at the Londo... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | McCormick Self-Delivery [self-rake] reaper parked in front of some wooden buildings. The reaper was likely the model displayed by Cyrus McCormick at the Lo... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Automatic Corn Reaper, most likely on display at the London Exhibition of 1862. A sign above the reaper suggests that the reaper may be "Russell's." |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for C.H. McCormick and Brothers, featuring an engraved illustration of man operating a horse-drawn mower. Includes the text... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Cover of a British advertising brochure for "McCormick's Reaping and Mowing Machine, (of which 50,000 have now been made in the United States) with his new... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Page from an advertising brochure featuring "McCormick's Prize Self-Raker, . . . the only perfect reaper in lodged grain." Features an engraved illustratio... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising booklet for John H. Manny's Single Mower. It features an illustration of men using the mower, surrounded by informative text. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Features an illustration of a man using a mower with a team of two horses. Caption below reads: "Here a stump is to be passed, as you now discover, And a l... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Advertisement card that reads: "The Kirby. It Mows! It Reaps! It Rakes!" Includes a photograph that has been pasted onto the card of a man using the Kirby. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for plows, cultivators, harrows, corn planters, mowers, rakes, sulkies and gangs. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for self raking reaper and combined hand raker and prize mowing machine. Includes an illustration of a man using a horse-drawn reaper at the ... |
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