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Poster

Chattanooga Chilled Plows Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Chattanooga chilled plows. Includes a color illustration of a man using a walking plow behind two horses as viewed...
Print

Oliver Chilled Plow Works Advertisement

Date: 1883
Description: Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Advertising Card

Date: 1886
Description: Inside of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company advertising card. Features color illustrations demonstrating the development of harvesting technology, in...
Photograph

McCormick Auto-Mower

Date: 07 24 1900
Description: Engineer E.A. Johnston operating a single-cylinder version of the McCormick Auto-Mower at the McCormick Works. Johnston was Director of Engineering for the...
Photograph

I-14 and Six Foot 112-V Mower

Date: 1940
Description: A man operates an International I-14 tractor with a six foot 112-V mower.
Photograph

IH Charlotte Branch House

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view across field of the International Harvester Company Charlotte branch building. The main factory building is surrounded by a series of smaller...
Print

Century of the Reaper

Date: 1931
Description: Cover of the book "Century of the Reaper" by Cyrus McCormick III ("Cyrusie"). The cover includes a color illustration of the senior Cyrus McCormick testing...
Photograph

Zimmel Implement

Date: 1966
Description: "This view is from St. Theresa Catholic Church. Looking north toward Zimmel Implement."
Photograph

Cheese Factory

Date: 1920
Description: View across dirt road of two men wearing overalls standing outside a rural cheese factory. There is a large, low wooden tub at the driveway entrance, and a...
Print

Yuba Ball Tread Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Two-page advertisement featuring a collage of photographs depicting the Yuba ball tread tractor at work in farm fields. A photograph of the Yuba Constructi...
Photograph

Waterloo Canning Factory

Date: 1912
Description: View across road towards a canning factory. A group of workers are standing at the top of a round structure, and a conveyor belt coming out of a shed leads...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 514-521

Date: 
Description: Put aside anything so futile

All that fermented time
spent and blackened, much obscured,
is now restored with cheese and wine
Book or Pamphlet

Adriance and Buckeye Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Catalog cover of Adriance, Platt & Co. features an illustration of a farmer standing in a field holding a scythe and wiping his brow. In the background men...
Book or Pamphlet

Eureka Mower Catalog

Date: 1882
Description: Front and back of catalog for the Eureka Mower. Features on the front a color illustration of a man riding the mower drawn by two horses. An umbrella beari...
Print

Plano Manufacturing Company Calendar

Date: 1901
Description: Calendar for Light Running Plano binders, mowers-headers, reapers-hayrakes, & sickle grinders. The calendar has an illustration of a man using Jone's Lever...
Book or Pamphlet

The Buckeye Catalog with Calendar — October & November

Date: 1895
Description: Catalog featuring calendar pages. October features a man using a hoe in a field. November features a drawing of the Buckeye Twine Mills.
Photograph

Lawson Plant Exterior

Date: 1919
Description: Exterior view from field across pond towards Alfred Lawson's aircraft plant, with buildings and smokestacks. Men are working with a pile of lumber on the l...
Photograph

Special Orchard Disk Harrow for California (Experimental)

Date: 09 21 1926
Description: A man driving a tractor is using a disk harrow in a field. In the background is an IH plant.
Photograph

Railroad Yard at McCormick Works

Date: 03 04 1907
Description: Railroad yard at McCormick Works, with a man walking along the tracks on the right. Houses are in the far background.

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