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McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick brand farm implements. Features a woman picking an apple with one hand and holding the bridle of a horse in the other. Als...
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...
Photograph

Holt Crawler at Winnipeg Tractor Contest

Date: 1911
Description: Men in suits and hats follow along as a man plows with a Holt crawler tractor at the Winnipeg tractor contest in Canada. Another man in the foreground is p...
Photograph

Case 20-40 Tractor at Winnipeg Tractor Contest

Date: 1911
Description: Men pose with a J.I. Case 20-40 tractor at the Winnipeg tractor contest in Canada.
Photograph

Train Wreck

Date: 1914
Description: Elevated view of the wreck of a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad train at Corliss. A large crowd of men are watching as a Bucyrus crane is lifting a car b...
Photograph

Grafton Viaduct

Date: 
Description: View across field towards the railroad bridge, seen with the construction almost completed. A man is standing in the middle of the bridge, and two or three...
Photograph

Experimental Cotton Picker Mounted on a Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1944
Description: Field test of an experimental International Harvester cotton picker mounted on a Farmall B tractor. The caption reads "Experimental IH low-drum 1-row Farma...
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1906
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's line of Champion harvesting machines. The cover features an illustration of a stylized window...
Photograph

Barn Raising

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of a large group of workers, along with women, children, and dogs, posing on the frame of the barn they are building.
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...
Print

Rock Island CTX Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Interior spread of a pamphlet advertising the Rock Island "CTX" tractor plow. The advertisement features an illustration of a male farmer using a Heider tr...
Book or Pamphlet

Turner Simplicity Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Cover of a brochure advertising the Turner Simplicity Farm Tractor. The cover features a photograph of a man using the tractor along with the caption: "Tur...
Book or Pamphlet

Boring Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Boring tractor, featuring a color illustration of a man using the tractor to work in a farm field.
Print

Tolva de Sembrar Arado-Rastra

Date: 
Description: Spanish language advertisement for an International Harvester plow, featuring a color photograph of a man using the equipment in a field and a headline rea...
Photograph

Depot and Train

Date: 1925
Description: View along railroad tracks towards the Rewey railroad station. A locomotive spewing smoke into the air is approaching the depot, and passengers are standin...
Photograph

Wireless Radio Poles

Date: 1918
Description: A group of Russians erecting new wireless radio poles near a town. In the background across a field are a number of large buildings behind a wooden fence.
Photograph

After Powder Explosion

Date: 03 09 1911
Description: A man stands on a foundation among the debris of the aftermath of a powder explosion. Around the man are pieces of corrugated metal, machinery and wood. In...
Photograph

International Harvester Passenger Bus

Date: 03 23 1925
Description: View of right side of what is probably a 1925 International Harvester bus. Passengers, mainly women, can be seen sitting inside, looking out from the curta...
Print

C. Aultman & Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1881
Description: Advertising card featuring a chromolithograph of young boys in a field. One boy is sitting on the seat of a Buckeye implement while holding the reins of fo...
Print

Deere & Co. Advertising Card

Date: 
Description: Advertising card for Deere & Co. "Largest Plow Manfactory, in the World." Features an illustration of a stalk of wheat on the left, partially framing a sce...

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