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N.C. Wyeth Depiction of McCormick Reaper Demonstration

Date: 1931
Description: Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh...
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...
Photograph

Farm near Stream

Date: 
Description: View from hill over a valley dotted with farmsteads and a meandering stream in the foreground. A group of three or four people are posing at the opposite s...
Photograph

Women and Children Watch Men Work in Field

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Description: Children, men with hats, and women with parasols, are watching men work in a field with a horse-drawn plow and other agricultural equipment. A house is in...
Photograph

Women in Period Costume for "Romance of the Reaper"

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

C-254 Cultivator on Super C Tractor

Date: 1952
Description: Front view looking towarsd a man under an umbrella using a Farmall Super C tractor outfitted with a C-254 cultivator to work in a field. Another man on a t...
Photograph

Tractor on Montgomery Farm

Date: 1924
Description: An umbrella is shading a man while he is driving a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?)tractor and disc harrow through a field.
Poster

International Harvester Centennial Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Poster commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the invention of the reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick (reaper centennial). The poster features a color repro...
Book or Pamphlet

The McCormick Annual Catalogue

Date: 1890
Description: Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration for a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Features a drawing of a man with a walking stick and a woman w...
Photograph

Hay at the Edwin Schnitzler Farm

Date: 07 04 1949
Description: "Hay was being made on the Edwin Schnitzler farm on Doyle Road."
Book or Pamphlet

Short Turn Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet produced by the Short Turn Tractor Company. The cover features a photograph of a tractor completing work in a field, ...
Photograph

Visitors at Camp Douglas

Date: 1887
Description: A group of visitors to Camp Douglas are gathered at the edge of an open field, perhaps observing military exercises. Several carry umbrellas.
Photograph

Small Girl Near Railroad Tracks

Date: 1920
Description: Unidentified small girl holding a parasol, posed beside railroad tracks.
Book or Pamphlet

Eureka Mower Catalog

Date: 1882
Description: Front and back of catalog for the Eureka Mower. Features on the front a color illustration of a man riding the mower drawn by two horses. An umbrella beari...
Photograph

People Riding Zebus

Date: 1906
Description: Man and a woman riding on zebu cattle, with fields and a mountain in the background. The people, place, and date of the photograph are unknown. The man and...
Photograph

Sarah Krueger Sitting Next to a Tree

Date: 1908
Description: Sarah Krueger, sitting at the base of a tree, wearing an elaborate hat and a long white dress. She is holding an umbrella.
Photograph

Mrs. Mabel Arbogast Driving a Farmall A

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Mabel Arbogast of Eldon, Mo., driving a Farmall A pulling a disk harrow through rye on the farm of Mr. E. Arbogast. She is sitting on a sheepskin seat...
Photograph

Men Using TD-14 with Combine

Date: 1941
Description: View down hill towards a group of men with a TD-14 and 51 combine owned by Eaton Sisters. They are harvesting mustard. Below them in the valley are farm bu...
Photograph

Leonore with Parasol

Date: 1930
Description: Leonore Middleton posing outdoors, wearing a large hat with a Japanese parasol resting on her left shoulder. She is wearing a light-colored dress with a be...
Photograph

UD-24 — Cotton Gins

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-24 — Cotton Gins." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by the Tipler Farm, Parkin, Ark. The 2-stand gin and other mac...

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