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Book or Pamphlet

Farmall H Tractor in front of IH Dealership

Date: 1952
Description: Color illustration of a sales agent showing a farmer a new McCormick Farmall H tractor alongside a storefront of a local IH dealership. In the background a...
Print

McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper Broadsheet

Date: 1851
Description: Handbill advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper, manufactured by C.H. McCormick & Co. Includes an illustration of the reaper in use. One man is dri...
Print

McCormick's Patent Reaping and Mowing Machine

Date: 1853
Description: Handbill or broadsheet advertising McCormick's Patent Reaping and Mowing Machine, manufactured by C.H. McCormick and Co. Includes an illustration of the ma...
Print

McCormick's Reaper and Mower Flyer

Date: 1859
Description: Flyer and order form advertising McCormick's Reaper and Mower. Features the headline "15,000 sold in the last 4 years" under an illustration of the reaper...
Poster

German McCormick Harvesting Machines Advertisement

Date: 1897
Description: Handbill advertising McCormick Harvesting Machines in German. Features an illustration of a grain binder in use.
Print

McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper

Date: 1851
Description: Handbill or Broadsheet advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper. Includes an illustration of the reaper in use. One man is driving the horses, anothe...
Photograph

Model of Men Working with Farm Equipment

Date: 1932
Description: A model or diorama depicting farmers with a Farmall tractor, truck, harvester-thresher (combine) and a horse in a field. The display was likely part of Int...
Poster

French-Language Deering Mower Poster

Date: 1930
Description: French-language poster advertising a Deering mower. The poster includes a color illustration of a mower along with text describing the machine's features. ...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Thresher Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Poster advertising all-steel threshers, featuring a color illustration of the machine in use. Also included is an illustration showing both faces of the Mc...
Poster

Spanish-Language McCormick Advertising Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Spanish-language poster intended for use in South America advertising the McCormick Number 10 harvester-thresher (combine). The poster features several col...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Thresher Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering combines (harvester-threshers). Includes the text: "McCormick-Deering Combines for every farm and ev...
Print

Russell Tractors at Work

Date: 1919
Description: Exterior fold of a pamphlet advertising Russell tractors featuring three photographs of the tractor at work in a field. The text reads: "Interesting views ...
Book or Pamphlet

Passing the Good Word Moline Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Inside cover of a pamphlet advertising the Moline Universal tractor. The page features a photograph of a man using a tractor and grain binder in a field, a...
Book or Pamphlet

Lauson Tractor Usages

Date: 1925
Description: Inside pages of a pamphlet advertising the Lauson tractor, depicting six usages of the equipment on a farm: plowing, silo filling, discing, corn shelling, ...
Print

John Deere Branch Houses

Date: 1928
Description: Back cover of a booklet advertising the John Deere Waterloo Boy tractor with a listing of John Deere branch houses. The John Deere trademark is at lower ri...
Book or Pamphlet

Avery Tractor Sizes

Date: 1919
Description: Back cover of a pamphlet advertising multiple sizes of Avery tractors. The cover features photographs of Avery tractors at use on farms, along with two ill...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman Taylor Team Mates

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Aultman Taylor farm equipment. The text reads: "Team Mates, Tractors and Threshers of Superior Quality," and an i...
Print

Cletrac Tank-Type Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the Cletrac tank-type crawler tractor featuring photographs of the tractor in action on a farm. The photographs illustrate, clockwise fro...
Print

GMC Samson Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Back cover of a booklet advertising the GMC Samson tractor with "sieve-grip." The photograph depicts two men using a Samson tractor and a plow in a field.
Photograph

Group of Men with Farmall A Tractor and No.61 Combine

Date: 1940
Description: Four men are standing with a Farmall A tractor pulling a No. 61 combine in a field of Great Northern beans on 110-acre farm of Ralph Lyda. The outfit is ow...

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