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Book or Pamphlet

Saving the World From Starvation Advertisement

Date: 1922
Description: Color advertising flyer entitled "Saving the World From Starvation." Features an illustration of a man in a suit and hat and a farmer looking at McCormick-...
Photograph

Woman on Tractor Talks with International Harvester Dealers

Date: 
Description: Woman sitting on a Farmall B tractor with attached corn planter talking with International Harvester dealers Henry Brosnahan, Manager (left), and Jack Call...
Photograph

Nikita Khrushchev Visits Iowa Farm

Date: 1959
Description: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev inspecting hogs on a farm. Khrushchev is accompanied by Roswell "Bob" Garst and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge.
Photograph

Fordson Tractor with Plow Equipped for "Driverless Operation"

Date: 05 14 1927
Description: Farmer and mechanic F.L. Zybach, 32, standing beside his invention -- a Fordson tractor with a front-mounted plow equipped for "driverless operation." Orig...
Photograph

McCormick Auto-Mower

Date: 07 24 1900
Description: Engineer E.A. Johnston operating a single-cylinder version of the McCormick Auto-Mower at the McCormick Works. Johnston was Director of Engineering for the...
Photograph

International Harvester Auto Wagon, Tractor and Binders

Date: 1910
Description: A large group of men standing in a field where two men in an International Auto Wagon lead a procession of an International tractor and several grain binde...
Photograph

"Tractorette" Class

Date: 1943
Description: Lillian A. Heinrichs, Lucille Eltiste, and Esther Goubert receive instruction from H.E. des Granges during "Tractorette" class while Wesley Kollehorst, fie...
Photograph

"Tractorette" Group

Date: 1942
Description: A group of participants in the "Tractorette" program gathers around a Farmall tractor operated by Fred R. Walkley, proprietor of Walkley Farm Equipment Com...
Photograph

4-Row Corn Planter Demonstration

Date: 04 28 1932
Description: A group of men, women, and children are standing in a field at an International Harvester Company farm to watch a 4-row corn planter demonstration.
Photograph

Plowing at 96th and Muskegon

Date: 1919
Description: Three men in a field working on an International 8-16 tractor. One of the men is dressed in a suit. There are houses in the background.
Print

Tractor Tilling Newsletter

Date: 07 1917
Description: Cover of the Volume 1, Number 2 issue of Tractor Tilling newsletter, produced by the Smith Form-a-Tractor Company. The cover features a photograph o...
Book or Pamphlet

Twin City 16 Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Twin City "16" line of tractors. The cover features a color illustration of men gathered around a tractor, as well...
Print

Farm Your Farm

Date: 1915
Description: Advertisement for the Peoria tractor featuring two photographs of men plowing in a field with tractors, along with the headline "Farm Your Farm. The Tracto...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering 15-30 in New Zealand

Date: 07 23 1928
Description: A McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor in a New Zealand field. Five men stand in a field gathered around bushels of wheat, and one man drives a tractor pulling ...
Historical Object

143 - Campers Working in Farm Field

Date: 
Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs. In one, a number of campers are kneeling, working in a farmer's field. A tractor and line of tr...
Photograph

Three Tractors Pulling 36 Feet of Plows

Date: 1915
Description: View of partially plowed field, with two men in suits standing posing on the left with 36 feet of plows, pulled by three tractors. The tractors each have a...
Photograph

"Farmall Special for the Delta"

Date: 06 28 1928
Description: Elevated view of Farmall tractors loaded on railroad cars on railroad tracks next to a group of men standing and posing together on another set of railroad...
Photograph

Men with Farmall H Tractor and No. 42 Combine

Date: 1940
Description: Four men posing with a Farmall H tractor pulling a No. 42 combine in a field in the Snake River Valley. The tractor and combine were being demonstrated in ...
Photograph

Group of Men with Farmall A Tractor and No.61 Combine

Date: 1940
Description: Four men are standing with a Farmall A tractor pulling a No. 61 combine in a field of Great Northern beans on 110-acre farm of Ralph Lyda. The outfit is ow...
Photograph

Man Driving Kerosene Tractor

Date: 07 22 1926
Description: View from front of a man wearing a suit and hat driving a McCormick-Deering kerosene tractor pulling threshing equipment. A group of men are watching in th...

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