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Young Boys Pose with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 06 24 1921
Description: Two ten-year-old boys, Paul Lannom and William Smith, posing with an International 8-16 HP tractor and McCormick binder. The boys are the grandsons of "Dad...
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Young Boys Harvest Wheat with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 06 24 1921
Description: Two ten-year-old boys, Paul Lannom and William Smith, harvesting wheat with International 8-16 HP tractor and McCormick binder. The boys are the grandsons ...
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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...
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International TD-9 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1955
Description: TD-9 International Superior crawler tractor loading South African crop onto a wagon with the attached side loader. A man is driving the tractor, and a chil...
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Mogul 25 HP Tractor and Grain Binders

Date: 1912
Description: A line of grain binders pulled by an International Harvester Mogul 25 hp tractor. A young boy is leaning against a stack of grain in the foreground.
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Native Americans and Harvester-Thresher at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 07 25 1933
Description: Native Americans in traditional dress test a harvester-thresher (combine) in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's fai...
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Group Watching Hay Baler

Date: 1961
Description: Elevated view of a men, women, and children gathered around a hay baler and other machines at work on International Harvester's Hickory Hill farm. The farm...
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People Posing Around Farm Machinery

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Description: People posing in field, with a barn in the background among trees. In the center a man, three women and a boy are standing in front of a wire fence. Behind...
Book or Pamphlet

John S. Davis & Sons Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Catalog cover with text: "Oscillator = Thresher". Also includes color illustration of a young girl sitting on a tree swing. Behind her, men women and child...
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Elmer Tompkin Driving Farmall M with No. 12 Two-Row Digger

Date: 1940
Description: View from rear of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elmer Merrill's 400-acre ...
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Elmer Tompkin Driving Farmall M with No. 12 Two-Row Digger

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elme...
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Loading Corn into Silo

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Description: View across barnyard towards men loading corn into a silo on a farm. The men are working on the right with horse-drawn wagons loaded with cornstalks. A tra...
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Man Driving Tractor-Drawn Binder

Date: 09 09 1923
Description: Left side view of a man using a tractor-drawn binder in a field. In the background down a slop a man and two children are watching. Harvested grain is in t...
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Two Boys with Horse-Drawn Wagon and Harvester Thresher

Date: 07 15 1925
Description: Two boys are sitting on a horse-drawn wagon in front of a tractor-drawn harvester thresher in a field.
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Young Girl Driving Tractor with Binder in Field

Date: 09 14 1925
Description: View across field towards a young girl driving a 15-30 HP tractor to pull a McCormick-Deering binder in a field. Bundles of harvested wheat are lying in th...
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Group Portrait of Men in Field During Demo of New Machine

Date: 08 07 1926
Description: View across field towards a large group of men, and one boy, standing near a tractor, and new demo machinery.
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Threshing Demonstration at Steam Engine Days

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Description: Elevated view of a man standing on a hay wagon, lifting hay with a pitchfork to load it onto a steam engine powered thresher. A group of people are watchin...
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Family with Lunch at Threshing Operation in Canada

Date: 11 22 1927
Description: In the foreground a man is standing with three women and one girl. In the background men are near a tractor, thresher, and wagons of hay near a haystack.
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Threshing or Haying Operation

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Description: A large group of men, women and children are posing with threshing machinery, a steam engine and a horse-drawn wagon in front of a barn. Lantern slide.
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Ensilage Cutter

Date: 12 28 1928
Description: A group of men are using an ensilage cutter near a barn. A Farmall tractor on the left is belt driving the ensilage cutter. A young boy is sitting in the w...

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