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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...
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 ...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Siberia

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard of horses pulling a grain binder. Man seated on machine. Caption reads "Siberia — A Harvest Scene near Tobolsk, where American Harvesting Machines...
Photograph

McCormick Wire Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A group of farmers are using a McCormick wire grain binder, built in 1876. A horse-drawn carriage is in the background. The original caption reads: "The im...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from rear of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder on the Gary Owen farm. A farmhouse and windmill are in the far background.
Photograph

Three Men Harvesting Grain with Mule-Drawn Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men harvesting grain. One man is operating a grain binder, another man is standing near him, and a third man is sitting on one of the mules. In the b...
Photograph

Hauling Sisal Leaves

Date: 1915
Description: Men carrying cut sisal leaves to take to a decorticating mill (which removes the outer husk), loading them on a donkey, and tram car which is on rails.
Photograph

Farmer Picking Corn by Hand

Date: 1911
Description: A farmer wearing a straw hat and smoking a pipe examining or picking corn. Behind him is a team of horses pulling a wagon.
Photograph

Man with McCormick Binder and Horses

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using a McCormick grain binder pulled by two horses to work in a field on a hillside. The hill overlooks bundles of the harvested crop. In the bac...
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest Party

Date: 1885
Description: Large group of cranberry harvesters posing with implements. Many of the individuals are wearing boutonnières and corsages made from cranberry sprigs. Many ...
Photograph

Haying

Date: 1929
Description: Oscar Steinkopf and his horse Jim. They are haying on Steinkopf's 40-acre farm. The photograph was taken by Alvin Steinkopf, Oscar's son, a Milwaukee journ...
Photograph

Men and Boys Posing with Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men and two boys are standing in a field next to a McCormick grain binder. On the right a man in a suit and hat is sitting in a carriage pulled by a ...
Photograph

Harvesting Red Clover

Date: 09 03 1895
Description: The Fred Judas family poses with their second crop of red clover, three miles south of Medford. With their rakes and mower, they are converting the red clo...
Photograph

Garden and Farm Buildings

Date: 
Description: View from garden towards two women posing standing near the fence for a garden. Behind them, three men are displaying four horses. Another person in the ba...
Book or Pamphlet

Planet Jr. Implement Catalogue Cover

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of the Planet Jr. catalog. Features an illustration of a man and young girl (about 5 or 6 years old) in a garden pushing a Planet Jr. Garden Drill to...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Brochure

Date: 
Description: Inside 2-page spread of fold-out brochure for Harvesting Machinery featuring a color illustration of a man using "The 'Bonnie' Binder, Right Hand" in a fie...
Photograph

Loading Hay

Date: 08 1898
Description: August and Alexander Krueger loading hay with pitchforks onto a wagon with a two-horse team attached. August is standing on top of the wagon while Alexande...
Photograph

Using a Deering Corn Binder

Date: 1906
Description: August, Alexander, Jennie, and Edgar Krueger cutting corn using a Deering corn binder. Alexander is standing next to the three horse team while Edgar is si...
Photograph

Stacking Grain

Date: 1908
Description: Alexander and August Krueger stacking grain. Alexander is standing on top of a tall pile of hay on a wagon, piling grain on the stack, while August is stan...
Photograph

Cutting Alfalfa

Date: 1910
Description: Alexander, Edgar, Florentina, and Jennie Krueger cutting alfalfa using a horse-drawn mower. Edgar is sitting on the mower holding the reins of the two-hors...

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