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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 ...
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of Christopher Columbus and hi...
Book or Pamphlet

J.F. Seiberling & Co. Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back covers of an advertising brochure for the New Empire line of mowers, reapers and grain binders manufactured by J.F. Seiberling & Company. Th...
Photograph

Tollef Gjermundsen Farmstead

Date: 1874
Description: View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalogue

Date: 1897
Description: Back cover of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog with a color illustration of a horse-drawn grain binder, a mower, and a corn binder on the ope...
Poster

Deering Harvester Advertising Poster

Date: 1899
Description: Advertising poster featuring color illustation of three men and a dog watching a farmer harvest grain with a horse-drawn Deering Ideal grain binder. The me...
Photograph

Sisal Leaves

Date: 01 22 1910
Description: Several workers standing in a field in Yucatan, Mexico, cutting sisal leaves. The sisal was used by International Harvester to make binder twine.
Poster

McCormick 10-20 and 15-30 Tractors Advertising Poster

Date: 1938
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick 10-20 and 15-30 tractors. The poster features a color illustration of each of the tractors, and photographs of men using t...
Photograph

Harvesting Grapes

Date: 
Description: A view of a woman harvesting grapes and putting them in small, wooden baskets.
Photograph

Harvesting of Grapes

Date: 
Description: A view of men and women harvesting grapes in a field.
Photograph

Muddy Pathway on Farmland

Date: 1911
Description: View of open gate and a muddy path through farmland along a fence. Corn shocks are in the field on the left.
Photograph

McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Side view of a man driving a team of horses to pull a McCormick grain binder through a field. In the far background are several large buildings.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering T-20 and TA-40 TracTracTor Brochure

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of a brochure for McCormick-Deering T-20 and TA-40 TracTracTors (crawler tractors), "For Heavy loads — For Steep Slopes — For Soft Soils."
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest

Date: 
Description: Men working in field during Wisconsin cranberry harvest. Crates are stacked up throughout the field.
Photograph

Woman Raking Cranberries

Date: 1955
Description: Woman using a cranberry rake to harvest cranberries near Wisconsin Rapids.
Photograph

Dry Cranberry Picking

Date: 
Description: Cranberry pickers in a Wisconsin marsh. The pickers include women and children.
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1980
Description: Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh.
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McCormick Advertisement — "Take It Cool"

Date: 1897
Description: An advertisement designed with images of three hand fans decorated with scenes of farmers using McCormick farming machinery. A ribbon across the bottom car...
Photograph

Handpicking Cranberries

Date: 1936
Description: A large crew in a sectioned field harvests cranberries by hand from a Wisconsin cranberry bog. There are farm buildings in the background.

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