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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,...
Postcard

Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back...
Photograph

Family and Wagon

Date: 1900
Description: A family of seven, including a baby, posing on and around a wagon with bales of hay in rocky terrain. There are steep hills behind them.
Photograph

Group of Men at La Crosse Tractors?

Date: 
Description: View across plowed field of group of employees of La Crosse Tractor? The men are wearing long jackets, neckties, gloves, and hats. In the background are fa...
Photograph

Man on Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man wearing a hat with a wide band is sitting on a horse-drawn grain binder in a field. Both horses are wearing blinders and are covered with blankets.
Photograph

Men Carrying Dead Lambs

Date: 09 1910
Description: Men carrying dead lambs back to the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp.
Photograph

Men Preparing to Butcher Lambs

Date: 09 1910
Description: Men preparing to butcher sheep at the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. A cabin is visible behind them on a hill.
Photograph

Ranch Hands Throwing a Roped Steer

Date: 
Description: Ranch hands throwing a roped steer on a hillside. The steer is in the center of three ranch hands on horseback who have put ropes around its legs. Other me...
Photograph

Men with Cotton Bales

Date: 02 09 1915
Description: A man sits on a bale of cotton piled on top of wooden boards in a field. Two men stand near him and another man or young boy sits on a bale in the backgrou...
Photograph

Three Men with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men use a McCormick grain binder in a field overlooking a body of water, probably the Saint John River, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Men an...
Photograph

Men with McCormick Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Men are sitting and standing around a McCormick mower, while a man wearing a suit and hat is standing to the left writing on a slip of paper, possibly a re...
Photograph

Cranberry Growers

Date: 10 1984
Description: Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries.
Photograph

Three Men Working in Field near Road

Date: 1900
Description: One man is operating a horse-drawn mower in a field. Two men are standing nearby, with one man pointing up toward the sky, and the other man holding a bunc...
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...
Photograph

Two Men Posing with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Two men are posing in a field with a grain binder and two horses. One man is sitting on the binder seat, and the other man is leaning on the binder behind ...
Photograph

Group of Men with McCormick Grain Binder on Hill

Date: 1900
Description: Four men are standing in a field on a steep hill near a man operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder. Two of the men are wearing suits. Farm building...
Photograph

Farmer and Cows

Date: 
Description: A farmer in overalls and hat stands in a pasture next to a Holstein cow. He holds a bucket and is gripping one of the cow's horns. More cows are grouped in...
Photograph

Man Operating Hay Rake in Field

Date: 1915
Description: Man operating a horse-drawn hay rake in a field. The horses are wearing fly-nets. There are bales of hay on a hill in the background.
Photograph

Pheasant Release

Date: 10 1981
Description: "Chuck Trauba releases pheasants on Warner Road."

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