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Photograph

Horse and Buggy on a Country Road

Date: 1906
Description: View down tree-lined country road near Wausau, taken by Dr. Joseph Smith, talented amateur photographer. It depicts women (probably members of his family) ...
Poster

McCormick "Westward" Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Advertising poster showing color illustration of pioneers on a bluff overlooking a McCormick binder harvesting grain in the valley below. The poster bears ...
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

Village Across Pond

Date: 1875
Description: A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are posing in the field near the pond.
Poster

Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Calendar

Date: 1920
Description: Promotional circular showing the color illustration for a forthcoming farm implement line calendar. Illustration is an artistic rendering of a young woman ...
Poster

Milwaukee Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster for Milwaukee brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes. Includes a color illustration of a woman in Native American dress. Pr...
Poster

World War II Victory Garden Poster

Date: 1943
Description: International Harvester poster promoting "Victory Gardens" and war bonds. Features an illustration of a family working in a field while the father shakes h...
Photograph

Steam Tractor with Sod-breaking Plows

Date: 
Description: Two men are posing standing on a steam tractor on the right, probably a Linnell, attached to sod-breaking plows steered by two men on the left. Behind them...
Photograph

Woman at Traveling Photographer's Wagon

Date: 1890
Description: A woman, possibly the daughter of C.R. Monroe, holding up an image of Black River Falls Main Street at the back of a traveling photographer's wagon.
Photograph

Women Engaged in "Tractorette" Training

Date: 1942
Description: Dan Downey, International Harvester blockman from Philadelphia, teaches three women how to operate a Farmall M tractor and a McCormick-Deering harvester-th...
Photograph

Tractorette Field Demonstration

Date: 1942
Description: Instructor Mr. Schweitzer reviewing the operation of a Farmall M tractor with a group of women. The women are (L to R): Donna Mehaffy, Oakville; Marian Hul...
Photograph

"Tractorette" Operating Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Elizabeth Lancton cultivating with a Farmall H tractor on the 105 acre farm of Cliff Lee. Mrs. Lancton attended classes offered by Fred R. Walkley, pr...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — India

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard with a color illustration of men and women working in fields. Original caption: "India — Primitive methods are still in use. The Reaping Hook has ...
Photograph

Young Girl on Farmall F-12 Tractor

Date: 10 27 1936
Description: Eighteen-year-old Juanita Washington operating a McCormick-Deering Farmall F-12 with attached plow. According to the original caption, Ms. Washington "regu...
Poster

Deering Small Calendar

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising calendar for the Deering line. The 1926 French calendar's month of January shows a woman who had been working on a farm.
Photograph

Corben Christening

Date: 08 12 1932
Description: RKO motion picture actress Raquel Torres christening the new model airplane manufactured in Madison by Orland Corben. Corben had flown the airplane that br...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Book or Pamphlet

Brantford Steel Binders Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Front and back cover of an advertising catalog for A. Harris, Son & Company of Brantford, Canada, manufacturers of grain binders, mowers and reapers. The c...
Print

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma...

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