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N.C. Wyeth Depiction of McCormick Reaper Demonstration

Date: 1931
Description: Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh...
Photograph

Cultivating Cotton Field with McCormick Farmall Super MD Tractor

Date: 1953
Description: View of an African American farmer cultivating a cotton field with a stage I McCormick Farmall Super MD tractor. The tractor is equipped with a cultivator ...
Photograph

Harvesting Wheat with International 8-16 Tractor and Binders

Date: 06 14 1921
Description: Farmers harvesting wheat with an International 8-16 HP kerosene tractor and two Deering seven foot binders on the farm of W.P. Ridley in Maury County. Thre...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog

Date: 1891
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer working in a field with a grain binder. A young man holds a par...
Photograph

Farm near Stream

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Description: View from hill over a valley dotted with farmsteads and a meandering stream in the foreground. A group of three or four people are posing at the opposite s...
Photograph

Women and Children Watch Men Work in Field

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Description: Children, men with hats, and women with parasols, are watching men work in a field with a horse-drawn plow and other agricultural equipment. A house is in...
Photograph

Plowing a Field

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Description: A man is using an experimental tractor with an attached plow in a field. An attached umbrella is providing shade.
Photograph

Push Binder

Date: 1910
Description: A farmer uses a team of six mules to power a push binder through a field. The farmer is shaded by an umbrella. The advertisement on the umbrella reads: "Ha...
Photograph

Women in Period Costume for "Romance of the Reaper"

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

C-254 Cultivator on Super C Tractor

Date: 1952
Description: Front view looking towarsd a man under an umbrella using a Farmall Super C tractor outfitted with a C-254 cultivator to work in a field. Another man on a t...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Harvester Thresher

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of two men on a McCormick-Deering harvester-thresher (combine) with pickup attachment in a field. Decals and/or stencils are on the machine, ...
Photograph

Tractor on Montgomery Farm

Date: 1924
Description: An umbrella is shading a man while he is driving a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?)tractor and disc harrow through a field.
Poster

Deering Harvester Company Calendar

Date: 1902
Description: Lithographed advertising poster with calendar, featuring an illustration of a young girl with a parasol. Also features color illustrations of a horse-drawn...
Book or Pamphlet

The McCormick Annual Catalogue

Date: 1890
Description: Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration for a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Features a drawing of a man with a walking stick and a woman w...
Photograph

Hay at the Edwin Schnitzler Farm

Date: 07 04 1949
Description: "Hay was being made on the Edwin Schnitzler farm on Doyle Road."
Book or Pamphlet

Short Turn Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet produced by the Short Turn Tractor Company. The cover features a photograph of a tractor completing work in a field, ...
Photograph

Small Girl Near Railroad Tracks

Date: 1920
Description: Unidentified small girl holding a parasol, posed beside railroad tracks.
Photograph

Mrs. Mabel Arbogast Driving a Farmall A

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Mabel Arbogast of Eldon, Mo., driving a Farmall A pulling a disk harrow through rye on the farm of Mr. E. Arbogast. She is sitting on a sheepskin seat...
Photograph

Men Using TD-14 with Combine

Date: 1941
Description: View down hill towards a group of men with a TD-14 and 51 combine owned by Eaton Sisters. They are harvesting mustard. Below them in the valley are farm bu...
Photograph

UD-24 — Cotton Gins

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-24 — Cotton Gins." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by the Tipler Farm, Parkin, Ark. The 2-stand gin and other mac...

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