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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

Farmer on McCormick-Deering Farmall H Tractor with Plow

Date: 1941
Description: Wayne Pattison working the fields of his two-hundred and eighty acre farm with a Farmall H tractor and a McCormick-Deering No. 7 disc plow. In the backgrou...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Farmall M Tractor and No. 52-R Combine

Date: 1944
Description: Farmer Paul Eblen operating a McCormick-Deering Farmall M tractor with attached McCormick-Deering no. 52-R combine in a 110 acre wheat field. The machines ...
Photograph

International Crawler Tractor with Hillside Combine

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Description: Color photograph of an International crawler tractor [TracTracTor] pulling a No. 51 hillside combine (harvester-thresher) against a beautiful mountainous ...
Photograph

McCormick Combine in Wheat Field

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Description: Farmer harvesting wheat with a McCormick combine (harvester-thresher) against a mountainous background. The combine is using a windrow pickup head and may ...
Photograph

McCormick Combine Harvesting Wheat

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Description: Farmer harvesting wheat with a McCormick combine (harvester-thresher) against a mountainous background. The combine is using a windrow pickup head and may ...
Photograph

Farmall H Tractor with No. 64 Combine

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Description: Farmer on a McCormick-Deering Farmall H tractor with no. 64 combine (harvester-thresher) set against a mountainous backdrop.
Photograph

Farmall H Tractor with No. 64 Combine

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Description: Farmer harvesting hay with a McCormick-Deering Farmall H tractor and no. 64 combine (harvester-thresher) set against a background of mountains.
Photograph

German Farmers Baling Hay in Alpine Country

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Description: German farmers baling hay in southern Germany's Alpine country. The men are using an International D-214 tractor with mower and wagon. Original caption rea...
Photograph

Experimental Combine Harvesting Grain

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view of men harvesting grain with a McCormick-Deering 12 foot experimental combine (harvester-thresher) pulled by a Farmall M tractor. There is a ...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer ope...
Photograph

U.S. Soil Conservation Albuquerque Demonstration

Date: 1948
Description: Farmer demonstrating 6-row forward-mounted beet and bean cultivator for Farmalls M, MD, or H at the U.S. Soil Conservation Albuquerque Demonstration. Capti...
Photograph

Experimental Combine with Farmall M Tractor

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view of men field testing an experimental 12 foot McCormick-Deering combine (harvester-thresher) with a Farmall M tractor. Mountains are in the ba...
Photograph

McCormick No. 51 Hillside Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1950
Description: Two men harvesting wheat with an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and a No. 51 hillside harvester-thresher (combine). Mountains are in the far b...
Photograph

Farmall 450 Diesel Tractor

Date: 1957
Description: View of a man plowing a field with a McCormick Farmall 450 diesel tractor. Mountains are in the far background.
Photograph

McCormick Binder near Mountains

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using a McCormick grain binder led by a team of horses to work in a field near a range of mountains.
Photograph

Bringing in the Harvest

Date: 1951
Description: Kashmiri farmer carrying his harvest.
Photograph

Pineapple Harvest

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Description: A group of workers harvest the fruit in a pineapple field. There is a large pile of pineapples in the foreground.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Tractor Mower Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering tractor mowers. Features two photographs of farmers pulling mowers with Farmall tractors. Original c...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Man using a team of horses to pull a mower in a field. Another man is standing and watching on the right. There are buildings on a hill in the distance on ...

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