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Titan Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster of World War I veteran returning home to family, farm and new Titan 10-20 tractor. The caption on the poster reads: "Look what dad bough...
Poster

Arcade Toys Advertising Poster

Date: 1926
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering miniature models produced by Arcade Toys. Includes illustrations of a toy tractor, plow, and wagon drawn by horses...
Poster

Deering Hay Press and Ensilage Cutter Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: South American advertising poster for Deering featuring color illustrations of hay presses and ensilage cutters. Imprinted with "Rosario, Buenos Aires, Bah...
Book or Pamphlet

Saving the World From Starvation Advertisement

Date: 1922
Description: Color advertising flyer entitled "Saving the World From Starvation." Features an illustration of a man in a suit and hat and a farmer looking at McCormick-...
Photograph

Steam Tractor with Sod-breaking Plows

Date: 
Description: Two men are posing standing on a steam tractor on the right, probably a Linnell, attached to sod-breaking plows steered by two men on the left. Behind them...
Photograph

Elephant Posing on International Cub Cadet

Date: 1967
Description: Shirley, a half-ton elephant, poses on an International Cub Cadet 122 lawn tractor with IH dealer Carl Kelton looking on. Several cub cadets are in the bac...
Poster

Gasoline Engine

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster of an International gasoline engine serving many functions, with an address for Budapest, Hungary. The poster was printed by the H...
Poster

Gasoline Engine

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster of an International gasoline engine serving many functions on the farm. Includes a large bird's-eye view of a farm, surrounded by ...
Photograph

Hunter Shows Prize to Man on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1948
Description: McCormick-Deering Farmall H tractor in a fall setting. A hunter, Mr. Vinson E. Gritten, is holding up a dead rabbit for William Foreman and Junior Scott (b...
Photograph

Circus Workers Giving Elephants a Drink

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: Two circus workers standing next to a water wagon pulled by a McCormick-Deering tractor. The men are providing water for three elephants outside the tents ...
Photograph

Elephants Drinking from Wagon Pulled by McCormick-Deering Tractor

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: Elephants drinking water from a wagon pulled by a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor outside a circus tent belonging to the Sells-Floto Circus. Circus wo...
Photograph

Farmers Grind Corn with International Harvester Equipment

Date: 12 10 1921
Description: Farmer and boy grinding feed with a McCormick-Deering belt-driven feed grinder and an International 8-16 tractor. Parked nearby are an International truck ...
Photograph

Young Boy Inspects Bird Nest on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1952
Description: Young boy inspecting a robin's nest on the engine of a Farmall H tractor. Original caption reads: "Spring-time on the farm. Even though his father uses thi...
Photograph

CUNA Office in Cottage Grove Coop

Date: 02 05 1941
Description: Claire Onsgard, treasurer of the Dane County Farmers Equity Union Coop Credit Union in Cottage Grove showing member Fritz Swenson where to sign his loan ap...
Photograph

Unloading Oats at Stock Pavillon

Date: 12 09 1929
Description: Unloading oats at the Stock Pavillon. In front a man is standing on a horse-drawn wagon near a tractor powering a grain elevator.
Photograph

Unloading Oats at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Stock Pavilion

Date: 12 09 1929
Description: A cargo of oats is unloaded from a horse-drawn wagon with the assistance from a tractor, via a grain elevator at the Stock Pavilion on the University of Wi...
Photograph

ESBMA Men Group Portrait

Date: 05 25 1928
Description: Group portrait of ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) men posing after clearing field for playground at Burr Jones Field, 1800 E. Washington Avenu...
Photograph

Farmers Husking Corn

Date: 12 16 1935
Description: Farmers husking corn with a McCormick-Deering belt-driven Husker and Shredder run by a W-30 tractor on the farm of Earl Jones, Auld, Ontario, Canada.
Book or Pamphlet

French Catalog for Deering Industrial Tractors

Date: 1927
Description: Cover of a French advertising catalog for Deering industrial tractors featuring a man driving an industrial tractor with a crane attached. An elephant is n...
Photograph

Woman Nursing Lambs with Bottles

Date: 1946
Description: Mrs. Floyd French of Newton, Iowa feeds two orphaned lambs using beer or soda bottles. A Farmall tractor is in the background. According to the original ca...

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