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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...
Photograph

Harvesting Wheat with International 8-16 Tractor and Binders

Date: 06 14 1921
Description: Farmers harvesting wheat with an International 8-16 HP kerosene tractor and two Deering seven foot binders on the farm of W.P. Ridley in Maury County. Thre...
Photograph

J-30 Tractor with No. 11 Deering Harvester

Date: 1931
Description: A J-30 tractor with a No. 11 Deering harvester-thresher (combine) on the farm of Dr. Juan Balbi in the Argentine Republic in South America.
Painting

Corn Shredding

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Description: Two farm workers in the righthand foreground toss a corn bundle up to the horse-drawn corn shredding machine to be shredded. To the left, a man loads feed ...
Photograph

Delmar Van Horn with Wagons

Date: 12 04 1924
Description: Delmar Van Horn uses a McCormick-Deering tractor to pull three wagons full of corn across a cut field.
Photograph

Threshing Crew on Krenke Farm

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Description: A threshing crew of men pose on tractors and threshing equipment on the Krenke farm. The tractor is powered by an engine and the threshing machine is pulle...
Book or Pamphlet

Lauson Tractor Usages

Date: 1925
Description: Inside pages of a pamphlet advertising the Lauson tractor, depicting six usages of the equipment on a farm: plowing, silo filling, discing, corn shelling, ...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: Elevated view of men and boys operating a steam tractor used for belt-driven threshing machinery. Farm buildings are on the right, and one has a thatched r...
Photograph

Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: Men operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. The negative is double exposed and shows the outline of a photographer's wagon.
Book or Pamphlet

Super Four Tractors and Supreme Threshers

Date: 1929
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet for Huber Super Four tractors and Supreme threshers. The cover features an illustration of a man using a Huber tracto...
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...
Poster

McCormick-Deering No. 60 Combine

Date: 1937
Description: Advertising poster for the "Efficient, Low-Cost Harvesting," and "A One-Man Combine For Any Man's Farm." Features a color illustration of a man on a tracto...
Photograph

Thresher in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards men using a tractor powered thresher in a field. In the background are a road, trees, fences and hills.
Photograph

Tractor Drawn Binder

Date: 1915
Description: View across field and fence towards men using a (very early model) tractor to pull a binder. There are horses near the binder on the left, and a man is dri...
Photograph

Power Threshing Operation

Date: 1920
Description: View of a tractor belt-driving a thresher which is at the entrance to a barn. Men are working inside the barn. There are large haystacks behind the tractor...
Photograph

Barn on Deems Farm

Date: 07 14 1924
Description: Man driving a Farmall tractor pulling a wagon piled high with hay near the open door of a large barn on Deems Farm. The barn has a cupola with a lightning ...
Photograph

Man Driving Tractor Pulling Binder

Date: 07 18 1925
Description: View from fence row of a man using a tractor to pull a binder. There are piles of harvested grain in the field.
Photograph

Large Threshing Operation

Date: 07 25 1925
Description: Elevated view across field towards men threshing with a tractor powered thresher. Near the thresher are men with horse-drawn wagons stacked with grain.
Photograph

Tractor-Drawn Harvester Thresher

Date: 07 15 1925
Description: View over tall grain in a field towards two men, one driving a tractor pulling another man on a harvester thresher. There are trees along a fence line on t...

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