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Cyrus Hall McCormick

Date: 1879
Description: Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor...
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...
Print

Tracteurs Deering

Date: 1929
Description: Advertising folder for Deering 10-20 and 15-30 tractors, showing an Arab man in the foreground and tractors at work in the background. Printed for Algiers,...
Print

McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1890
Description: Lithograph illustration for the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a gentleman sitting in a Victorian parlor pointing to...
Print

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 ...
Photograph

Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr.

Date: 11 1932
Description: Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. (1859-1936), son of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). He was president of the McCormick Ha...
Photograph

Graphic Artist in Office with Drawings

Date: 1920
Description: International Harvester advertising artist sitting at his desk in a studio office with a wistful look on his face. Graphics from Deering brand advertisemen...
Photograph

First Case Gas Tractor

Date: 1934
Description: First gas tractor built by the J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company of Racine, Wisconsin. Original caption reads: "The first Case gas tractor built in 1892....
Book or Pamphlet

Feed Your Hungry Crops

Date: 1918
Description: Cover of an "educational" pamphlet published by International Harvester to promote the use of manure spreaders, fertilizers and lime spreaders. Features an...
Book or Pamphlet

William Deering & Company Catalog

Date: 1892
Description: Cover of a Swedish advertising catalog for William Deering and Company farm machinery. Features an illustration of a wizard(?) surrounded by male and femal...
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1902
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne & Co. harvesting machines showing three old men. Two of the men appear to be listening to the third man. I...
Poster

Champion Harvesting Machines Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising poster for Champion brand agricultural machines, manufactured by Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company. The main illustration depicts a salesma...
Print

Front of Cat and Mouse Trade Card

Date: 
Description: Front view of a trade card created by the Plano Manufacturing Company featuring an illustration of a cat climbing a screened window in pursuit of a mouse. ...
Historical Object

McCormick Agency Sign

Date: 1895
Description: Tin sign used to identify a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company dealership or agency. Includes a portrait of Cyrus McCormick and illustrations of a "harve...
Print

The Nation's Binder

Date: 1890
Description: Color advertising cartoon depicting Uncle Sam with arms outstretched over a Deering grain binder. Hybrids of binders by rival manufacturers are depicted on...
Print

Cyrus McCormick

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Description: Letterpress print of Cyrus McCormick printed on a 219 Vandercook Proof Press, from a wood block carving.
Print

Pulling Stumps with Cletrac Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: A man uses a Cletrac crawler tractor to clear land on a farm. The caption beneath the photograph reads: "Pulling stumps and clearing land are important job...
Print

First Case Tractor

Date: 
Description: Illustration of a man sitting on the "first Case gas tractor, built in 1892."
Book or Pamphlet

Hoosier Pipe Frame Drills Advertisement

Date: 1913
Description: Back page advertisement with the title: "Safe and Easy for Fat Men." Features an illustration of a man sitting and posing on the back of a grain drill in t...
Book or Pamphlet

Ann Arbor Agricultural Co. Brochure

Date: 1882
Description: Front and back sides of the Ann Arbor Co. brochure. The front cover includes an illustration of the factory. The inside is a spread with an illustration of...

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