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Poster

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...
Print

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Siberia

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard of horses pulling a grain binder. Man seated on machine. Caption reads "Siberia — A Harvest Scene near Tobolsk, where American Harvesting Machines...
Photograph

Man Operating Oliver No. 1 Gang Plow

Date: 1911
Description: Man operating an Oliver no. 1 horse-drawn gang plow as another man and a boy look on. The plow was produced from 1911 to 1916 by the Oliver Chilled Plow Co...
Poster

Champion Harvesting Machines Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising poster for Champion brand agricultural machines, manufactured by Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company. The main illustration depicts a salesma...
Photograph

Testing an 1831 Reaper Replica

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from rear of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder on the Gary Owen farm. A farmhouse and windmill are in the far background.
Photograph

Man on Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man wearing a hat with a wide band is sitting on a horse-drawn grain binder in a field. Both horses are wearing blinders and are covered with blankets.
Photograph

Large Haying Operation

Date: 1900
Description: Men working on haying operation in a field. Two men are driving horse-drawn wagons piled high with hay. One man is standing near one wagon holding an imple...
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

Men in Hemp Field

Date: 08 02 1917
Description: Six men, all wearing hats, stand in a field of hemp at Beebe Farm. The seventh man, Prof. Holden, sits on a horse behind the others.
Photograph

Three Men with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men use a McCormick grain binder in a field overlooking a body of water, probably the Saint John River, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Men an...
Photograph

Man and Child with Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe is raking cut stalks from a binder as a boy is riding a horse pulling the machine across a field. A windmill is stan...
Photograph

Farmer with Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Side view of a man driving two horses to pull a McCormick corn binder through a field. Several farm buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Man with McCormick Binder and Horses

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using a McCormick grain binder pulled by two horses to work in a field on a hillside. The hill overlooks bundles of the harvested crop. In the bac...
Photograph

Consolidation Coal Company Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men from the Consolidation Coal Company pose with a McCormick grain binder and two horses in a field on the company farm.
Photograph

Group in Wagon in Field of Corn

Date: 1900
Description: A group of men and women are sitting in a horse-drawn wagon in a field of corn, while another man is standing near the wagon's front wheel.
Photograph

Men with Horse-Drawn Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Men with a horse-drawn mower in a field. One man is working with a hand implement in a pile of hay, and another is sitting in a horse-drawn carriage in the...
Photograph

Three Men Posing in front of Farm Buildings

Date: 1895
Description: Three men are posing in front of a farmhouse with farm equipment and carriages. One man is standing in the field, another man is driving a mower, and a thi...
Photograph

Man on Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1895
Description: Side view of a man sitting on a horse-drawn mower in a field. The man on the mower is writing on a piece of paper. Another man wearing a bow tie is sitting...

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