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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...
Photograph

Experimental International Harvester Motor Cultivator

Date: 1916
Description: Man with cigar tests an International Harvester experimental motor cultivator in a field.
Photograph

Two Men Crouching in a Farm Field

Date: 09 12 1927
Description: Two men dressed in hats and ties are crouching down in a farm field to show the size of the plants. One of the men has a pipe in his mouth.
Photograph

Farmer Harvesting Corn with McCormick-Deering Corn Picker

Date: 12 04 1926
Description: Farmer harvesting corn with a McCormick-Deering two-row corn picker attached to a Farmall Regular tractor. The farmer is smoking a pipe.
Photograph

First McCormick Reaper Re-Enactment

Date: 1929
Description: Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi...
Postcard

Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back...
Photograph

Amzie Moore, Julian Bond, and Others

Date: 1963
Description: Bob Moses, Julian Bond, Curtis (Hayes) Muhammad, Willie Peacock, Hollis Watkins, Amzie Moore and E.W. Steptoe on Steptoe's farm.
Photograph

Two Men in Field Shaking Hands

Date: 1922
Description: A man seated on a Deering grain binder shakes hands with a man standing and smoking a cigar. The man with the cigar may be an International Harvester deale...
Photograph

Experimental Combine

Date: 1943
Description: Lee and Gray, International Harvester employees, and Fowler McCormick, looking at an experimental combine (harvester-thresher) in a field. A Farmall tracto...
Photograph

Four Men Drinking

Date: 1897
Description: Four men guzzle beverages in a cornfield. The caption on the stereograph reads, "Well, here goes looking at you."
Photograph

Using the 1831 Reaper Replica on Set

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

Men with Mogul 25 H.P. Tractor and Grain Binders

Date: 1912
Description: Men sit on a line of three McCormick grain binders hitched to a Mogul 25 h.p. tractor in a field. A young boy sits near a haystack in the foreground, and t...
Photograph

Man with Horse-Drawn Corn Planter

Date: 06 15 1926
Description: A man is smoking a pipe while operating a McCormick-Deering a horse-drawn corn planter in a farm field. A silo, barn, and other farm buildings are in the b...
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

McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thresher

Date: 07 22 1926
Description: Side view of a McCormick-Deering harvester-thresher (combine). A group of men are standing behind the machine; and decals and/or stencils are on the side o...
Photograph

Four Men Drinking - Anaglyph

Date: 1897
Description: Four men guzzle beverages in a cornfield. The caption on the stereograph reads: "Well, here goes looking at you."
Photograph

Family Seated in Field Outside Home

Date: 1910
Description: Portrait of a family in field. A man holding a cigar leans against a tree trunk, and a woman and young girl are seated on a broken limb which lies over the...
Photograph

Man on Reynolds Tedder

Date: 1919
Description: Man on a Reynolds hay tedder pulled by team of work horses. Another man stands supervising. In the far background beyond a fence are two separate farmstead...
Photograph

Trainees at Outdoor Lecture

Date: 1942
Description: Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School trainees gathered for an outdoor lecture. The men are all wearing helmets and fatigues, with some carrying submachine gu...
Photograph

Man Operating Horse-Drawn Manure Spreader

Date: 04 1927
Description: A man with a pipe in his mouth drives a team of horses to pull a manure spreader in a field. The original caption reads: "Kendall Stock Farm Indianapolis, ...

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