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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...
Photograph

Diamond Iron(?) Tractor at Winnipeg Tractor Contest

Date: 1912
Description: Men standing around a Diamond Iron(?) tractor at the Winnipeg tractor contest in Canada.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Plow Competition

Date: 1913
Description: Two men appear to be competing in a plowing competition with horse-drawn walking plows. Onlookers and automobiles are in the background. The photograph was...
Photograph

U.S. Soil Conservation Albuquerque Demonstration

Date: 1948
Description: Farmer demonstrating 6-row forward-mounted beet and bean cultivator for Farmalls M, MD, or H at the U.S. Soil Conservation Albuquerque Demonstration. Capti...
Photograph

Holt Crawler Tractor at 1911 Winnipeg Tractor Contest

Date: 1911
Description: Man plowing with a Holt crawler tractor, no. 1609, at the Winnipeg tractor contest in Canada. The tractor was built by the Holt Manufacturing Company of St...
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

Aultman-Taylor Tractors at Winnipeg Tractor Contest

Date: 1911
Description: Men tending to two Aultman and Taylor tractors at the Winnipeg tractor contest in Canada. One of the tractors is a 30-60 gas tractor.
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

Man Demonstrates the Bates Steel Mule Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Man pulling a tractor plow with a Bates Steel Mule Model D tractor at what appears to be an agricultural exhibition or fair. The Bates Steel Mule was manuf...
Photograph

Harvester Farm Display

Date: 1946
Description: A worker tending to a replica field in the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. The scene includes a Farmall tractor and a barn.
Photograph

Tractor Pulling Four Grain Binders

Date: 1910
Description: A tractor pulls a series of four grain binders while a man drives an IHC Auto Wagon alongside and a crowd of men looks on.
Photograph

International Harvester Mogul 8-16 Demonstration

Date: 1916
Description: A man plows a field for a group of men with a Mogul 8-16 kerosene tractor. The sign on the tractor boasts of its winning the Grand Prize at the San Francis...
Photograph

Titan 15-30 H.P. at Work in Field

Date: 1916
Description: Men plow a field using an International Harvester Titan 15-30 kerosene tractor and a P&O plow. The men were likely participating in a demonstration or show...
Photograph

Field Demonstration of Mogul 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1916
Description: A group of men and women gather in a farm field to watch a demonstration of plowing with a Mogul 8-16 tractor.
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...
Print

FIELD TESTS are "NO GOOD" For a "No Good" Machine

Date: 1893
Description: An advertisement for the McCormick No. 4 Steel Mower in the December edition of The Farmer's Advance, a publication of the McCormick Harvesting Mach...
Photograph

Tractor Demonstration

Date: 05 17 1916
Description: Men are watching the demonstration of an Avery Company tractor pulling a Hoosier seed drill (?) across a field at Newsorn Farm during the annual meeting of...
Photograph

Antique Farm Equipment Show

Date: 09 1993
Description: "Antique farm equipment show at Calumetville."
Print

Empire Mower and Reaper

Date: 1893
Description: Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “...
Photograph

Francis E. McGovern at the Moquah Cattle Show

Date: 1914
Description: View across field towards Governor Francis E. McGovern, standing in the center, wearing a suit and hat. Beside and behind him are a group of men and women.

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