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Poster

McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Color illustrations advertising poster for McCormick harvesting machinery showing two steers looking over a fence with images of a reaper, mower, binder an...
Poster

Gasoline Engine

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster of an International gasoline engine serving many functions, with an address for Budapest, Hungary. The poster was printed by the H...
Photograph

Men Filling Corn Crib

Date: 1916
Description: A group of men filling a large, circular corn crib. A second corn crib in the background is completely full.
Photograph

Workers with Cattle Posing in front of Farm Yard

Date: 1900
Description: Farm house, barn, and farm buildings surround by fence. Trees and windmills in background. Man riding horse-drawn corn binder in field with many men and c...
Photograph

Men in Field with Cattle

Date: 
Description: Two men stand with a small herd of cattle on a path between fenced-in and planted fields on the side of a hill. Two buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Farmer Using Manure Spreader

Date: 1910
Description: Farmer in field using a manure spreader drawn by a team of horses. A cow is standing nearby.
Photograph

Man and Child in Farm Field

Date: 1913
Description: A man uses a walking plow led by a team of two horses to work in a farm field while a child watches from behind.
Postcard

Farmer with Cows

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

Man with Jersey Calves on IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 06 1930
Description: A man is feeding a group of Jersey calves from a metal bucket. Another man is using a tool to work in a field in the background.
Postcard

The Return From the Alps

Date: 
Description: Color postcard of a Swiss farmer returning home with his animals. Many of the animals, and five of the shepherds, are labeled with a name. The path loops b...
Photograph

Foreign Harvesting Scene

Date: 1900
Description: Men with hand harvesting tools and an ox-drawn hay cart in a foreign field (possibly India?).
Photograph

Operating the Generator

Date: 03 1975
Description: "As a result of the storm some farms did not have electricity for five days. A generator was shared by many farmers and was moved from farm to farm so that...
Magazine or Periodical

AL-110 Truck Loaded with Hay

Date: 1950
Description: AL-110 truck loaded with hay, with a man feeding cattle from the truck bed. A farm is in the background. Original caption reads, "The utility truck, an Aus...
Photograph

Landscape View of Farm with Man on Mower

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a man on a horse-drawn mower. Behind him on the left men are working on and around a large haystack with horses. Behind a split-r...
Photograph

Man on Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man using a horse-drawn corn binder in a cornfield. Another man is standing just in front of the binder. In the background are more men with...

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