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Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Photograph

Experimental International Harvester Motor Cultivator

Date: 1916
Description: Man with cigar tests an International Harvester experimental motor cultivator in a field.
Photograph

Two Men Crouching in a Farm Field

Date: 09 12 1927
Description: Two men dressed in hats and ties are crouching down in a farm field to show the size of the plants. One of the men has a pipe in his mouth.
Photograph

Women and Children in Field with Walking Plow

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: Two women and two young girls in a field with an ox-driven walking plow. Original caption reads: "This picture was not taken in Egypt nor India nor Africa ...
Photograph

Farmer Harvesting Corn with McCormick-Deering Corn Picker

Date: 12 04 1926
Description: Farmer harvesting corn with a McCormick-Deering two-row corn picker attached to a Farmall Regular tractor. The farmer is smoking a pipe.
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First McCormick Reaper Re-Enactment

Date: 1929
Description: Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi...
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Two Men in Field Shaking Hands

Date: 1922
Description: A man seated on a Deering grain binder shakes hands with a man standing and smoking a cigar. The man with the cigar may be an International Harvester deale...
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Experimental Combine

Date: 1943
Description: Lee and Gray, International Harvester employees, and Fowler McCormick, looking at an experimental combine (harvester-thresher) in a field. A Farmall tracto...
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Using the 1831 Reaper Replica on Set

Date: 1929
Description: A production still from the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reap...
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Men with Mogul 25 H.P. Tractor and Grain Binders

Date: 1912
Description: Men sit on a line of three McCormick grain binders hitched to a Mogul 25 h.p. tractor in a field. A young boy sits near a haystack in the foreground, and t...
Photograph

Man with Horse-Drawn Corn Planter

Date: 06 15 1926
Description: A man is smoking a pipe while operating a McCormick-Deering a horse-drawn corn planter in a farm field. A silo, barn, and other farm buildings are in the b...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thresher

Date: 07 22 1926
Description: Side view of a McCormick-Deering harvester-thresher (combine). A group of men are standing behind the machine; and decals and/or stencils are on the side o...
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4-Row Corn Planter Demonstration

Date: 04 28 1932
Description: A group of men, women, and children are standing in a field at an International Harvester Company farm to watch a 4-row corn planter demonstration.
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Children Near Tenements

Date: 1917
Description: Elevated view of five children walking in a field behind what appears to be tenement housing. Wooden fire escapes are attached to the rear of the buildings...
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Family Seated in Field Outside Home

Date: 1910
Description: Portrait of a family in field. A man holding a cigar leans against a tree trunk, and a woman and young girl are seated on a broken limb which lies over the...
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Man on Reynolds Tedder

Date: 1919
Description: Man on a Reynolds hay tedder pulled by team of work horses. Another man stands supervising. In the far background beyond a fence are two separate farmstead...
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Man Operating Horse-Drawn Manure Spreader

Date: 04 1927
Description: A man with a pipe in his mouth drives a team of horses to pull a manure spreader in a field. The original caption reads: "Kendall Stock Farm Indianapolis, ...
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Five Horse-Drawn Binders in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Five men with horse-drawn binders in a line in a field. Another man on horseback is behind the group. The man in front is smoking a pipe, and the horse beh...
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10-20 Tractor, New Zealand

Date: 
Description: Left side profile view of a man smoking a pipe while driving an International 10-20 tractor, without a engine cover, up a small hill in New Zealand. The tr...
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Group of Men with Harvester Thresher

Date: 08 25 1925
Description: A group of men are gathered near a harvester thresher.

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