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McCormick Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Four men and three children posing by a McCormick mower in a field.
Poster

McCormick "Back from the War" Advertising Poster

Date: 1899
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster for the McCormick grain binder showing a father, young girl, and a dog welcoming a returning Spanish-American War soldi...
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Tillage Implement Catalog

Date: 1915
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Osborne line of tillage implements showing a farmer and son in a field with a horse-drawn dis...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company, manufacturers of harvesting machinery. The cover features a framed inset of a scene of...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Advertising Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Advertising catalog for grain cutting (harvesting) machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features an illustration of children sitting with...
Photograph

Adults and Children Watching Farmer Operating McCormick Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A farmer is operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. A group of people, including two adults and four children, are looking on. The femal...
Photograph

Man and Boys on Water Wagon

Date: 08 1911
Description: Man with two boys, possibly father and sons, seated on a water wagon pulled by a team of horses along a rural dirt road.
Photograph

Henry Getto Family

Date: 1908
Description: Left to right, Maria, Fred, Oscar, and Alma Getto standing in a field. Henry Getto is in a horse-drawn wagon in the background.
Photograph

Children Too Near Grain Binder

Date: 07 1927
Description: Two children are walking closely behind a man operating a grain binder pulled by a team of four horses through a field, illustrating the dangers of standin...
Photograph

Men and Child With Automatic Self-Rake Reaper

Date: 1900
Description: A girl wearing a dress and hat is carrying a metal pail towards men using a McCormick automatic self-rake reaper in a field.
Photograph

Hayride at Camp Sherwood

Date: 
Description: Slightly elevated view of a hayride at Camp Sherwood. Children and adults are sitting on hay in horse-drawn vehicles. A field and hills are in the backgrou...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1922
Description: View down an unpaved street in a residential area, and storefronts further down. Near a garage on the right is a horse-drawn wagon and automobile. Two men ...
Photograph

Three Wooden Buildings

Date: 
Description: View across fields and fences of three wooden buildings in the country, probably a mill. A man stands in the wagon drawn by a team of horses in front of on...
Photograph

Uhrenholdt Family

Date: 1910
Description: Uhrenholdt family on the family farm in Seeley.
Photograph

Gathering in a Field

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a large group of people gathered in an open field surrounded by a wooden fence.
Photograph

H.H. Bright and his Daughters and Friend

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Description: Four girls posed sitting in a buggy pulled by a single horse, and man posed standing nearby, probably H.H. Bright and his daughters and their friend.
Photograph

People and Horses in Front of a House

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Description: Two young girls, a man and an infant are posing sitting in a wagon pulled by a team of two horses wearing fly-nets. On the right a man and a woman are posi...
Photograph

People in front of Frame House

Date: 
Description: Three men, two women, two boys, and a girl are posing standing near a wagon pulled by a team of two horses. Behind them is a tall frame house with a large ...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

Date: 
Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile
Photograph

Unidentified Residence and People

Date: 
Description: Outdoor group portrait of a family at their farm. The family is posing on the far right in the yard. On the left near the house is a windmill with a sign f...

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