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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...
Photograph

F-20 Tractor in Dealership Showroom

Date: 01 13 1937
Description: Two salesmen (C. Scheler and son?) posing with a new Farmall F-20 tractor inside the dealership of C. Scheler and Son.
Photograph

Family Examining a New W-30 Tractor

Date: 02 07 1935
Description: Salesman showing a new McCormick-Deering W-30 tractor to a small group of men, women, and children in the showroom of an International Harvester dealership...
Photograph

Salesmen Examine McCormick-Deering T-20 TracTracTor

Date: 11 02 1936
Description: Two salesmen examining the features of a McCormick-Deering T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) at an International Harvester dealership.
Photograph

Dealer Shows McCormick-Deering Tractor Plow to Customers

Date: 11 02 1936
Description: International Harvester dealer showing a trailing five bottom disk plow hitched to a Farmall tractor to customers.
Photograph

Men Planning for World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: International Harvester dealer Charles Landaal signs a pledge to help collect scrap as part of Governor Julius P. Heil's "MacArthur Week" scrap drive. Milw...
Photograph

WD-6 Diesel and Farmall A Tractors

Date: 1940
Description: Farmer Leo Sucharski on his new WD-6 diesel tractor. Mr. Sucharski is talking to C.A. Reef, an International Harvester farm equipment dealer from Gasport. ...
Photograph

International Harvester Tractor Display

Date: 1946
Description: Display in the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. The display consists of a McCormick Farmall tractor with a male mannequin sitt...
Photograph

International Harvester Dealership

Date: 07 15 1929
Description: Two men examine a tractor part in a workshop at the International Harvester dealership of O.T. Kercheval.
Photograph

Mr. Brownlie Gout Sitting on a Farmall Regular Tractor

Date: 11 22 1927
Description: Mr. Brownlie Gout, of Punjab, India, sits on top of a McCormick-Deering Farmall Regular tractor in a showroom, while two men stand to the side.
Photograph

F-20 Loaded on Truck for Quinn R. Barton, Inc.

Date: 04 09 1935
Description: C.L. McCumber, service manager, and Quinn R. Barton, president of Quinn R. Barton, Inc., stand in front of a Farmall F-20 tractor loaded onto a truck. Quin...
Photograph

IH Salesman on an I-12 Tractor

Date: 1934
Description: E.S. Marnon, I-12 salesman at the Howard-Cooper Corporation, rides a McCormick-Deering tractor. The Howard-Cooper Corporation was likely an International H...
Photograph

Men with F-12 Tractor

Date: 06 18 1934
Description: Three men stand around a Farmall F-12 tractor outside of a storage building, possibly at the Gonigam-Bass Company. The men may be International Harvester d...
Photograph

Farmall at the Tri-State Fair in Iowa

Date: 08 22 1929
Description: A crowd of spectators gathers around a Farmall Regular tractor on display at the Tri-State Fair.
Photograph

Dealers Looking at Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1947
Description: Two Minnesota dealers, Glidden Toldt and Myron Syverson of Ornsby, inspect a Farmall Cub Tractor. The men were likely attending an International Harvester ...
Photograph

Experimental HT-340 Tractor

Date: 1961
Description: Men gather to look at an International Harvester Model HT-340 tractor on display behind a rope. The sign above the tractor reads, "Gas Turbine Powered Hydr...
Book or Pamphlet

Twin City 16 Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Twin City "16" line of tractors. The cover features a color illustration of men gathered around a tractor, as well...
Print

Uncle Sam Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: An illustration of Uncle Sam points to a U.S. Tractor & Machinery Company Uncle Sam tractor beneath a headline reading: "Speed when you want it. Power all ...
Print

Farm Your Farm

Date: 1915
Description: Advertisement for the Peoria tractor featuring two photographs of men plowing in a field with tractors, along with the headline "Farm Your Farm. The Tracto...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 242-251

Date: 
Description: The world is flat; we get around
this stretched credulity
by going straight as an arrow
and meeting ourselves in a space of time

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