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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

Man Operating Oliver No. 1 Gang Plow

Date: 1911
Description: Man operating an Oliver no. 1 horse-drawn gang plow as another man and a boy look on. The plow was produced from 1911 to 1916 by the Oliver Chilled Plow Co...
Photograph

Testing an 1831 Reaper Replica

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

Horse-Drawn Milwaukee Grain Binder

Date: 1915
Description: Two men and a child, all wearing hats, are at the back of a Milwaukee grain binder. One man is standing with a cradle in his hands. An older man with a bea...
Photograph

Osborne Spring Tooth Harrow

Date: 05 29 1912
Description: Farmer wearing a hat is walks=ing behind a horse-drawn Osborne spring tooth harrow in a field. Trees and a fence are in the background.
Photograph

Man with Horse at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1907
Description: A man wearing a hat holds the reins of a work horse in front of a wood-sided building. The photograph's caption reads: "Milwaukee Works, Work Horses, Morit...
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

Man on Manure Spreader Pulling Out of Barn

Date: 1910
Description: Farmer on a horse-drawn manure spreader pulling out of barn. Another farm building is on the left. A small girl, possibly a daughter, is peering out from b...
Photograph

Men Standing in Weber Wagon

Date: 1910
Description: Group of men standing in a horse-drawn Weber wagon outside a storage warehouse. The wagon bears the text: "sold by Rutherford & Shean, Aurora, Neb."
Photograph

Men Standing on Wagon Outside Store

Date: 1912
Description: Group of several men standing on a horse-drawn wagon outside Geo. Kast & Co., a hardware store. Snow is visible in spots on the road.
Photograph

Men with Wagon Outside Abbey Hotel

Date: 1915
Description: Man seated atop a horse-drawn wagon in the snow outside the "Abbey Hotel." Another man stands on the left near the wagon.
Photograph

Four Pine Farm Wagon

Date: 1919
Description: Side view of a man sitting on a one-horse wagon used by Four Pine Farm. The side of the wagon reads: "Peter Schuttler."
Photograph

Men in Hemp Field

Date: 08 02 1917
Description: Six men, all wearing hats, stand in a field of hemp at Beebe Farm. The seventh man, Prof. Holden, sits on a horse behind the others.
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

Walkenhorst School Board

Date: 1917
Description: Teacher and school board of the Walkenhorst School sit around a table outdoors near a building. The men have set their hats on the table, and a horse-drawn...
Photograph

Group Picnic

Date: 1915
Description: A group of men, women, and children stand outdoors in front of Shiloh Church for an outdoor meal. They are eating food laid out on a long table made out of...
Photograph

Men with Livestock

Date: 1914
Description: Group of men in a pen with livestock, including pigs, sheep, a cow, a donkey and horses. The livestock was owned by the Piney Woods Country Life School.
Photograph

Crowd with Horse

Date: 1920
Description: A man and boy holding the reins of a horse while a group of men and boys are looking on. Commercial buildings are in the background.

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