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Farm Hands at Work Reaping Grain with Scythes

Date: 1899
Description: Farm scene of foreman watching five farm hands reaping grain with cradles as children, women and field hands help gather it into bundles.
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Trolley Car Pulling Flat Car Carrying McCormick Binder and Mower

Date: 1899
Description: Group of people posing on a trolley car, which is pulling a flat car loaded with a McCormick grain binder and mower as part of an event culminating the "Cr...
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Woman Riding a Horse-Drawn McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Woman in a hat and dress sitting on a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder.
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Farm Family with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A woman with a child on one arm is handing a pail to a man in the seat of a horse-drawn McCormick binder. Another man and four children are nearby in the f...
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McCormick Auto-Mower at Paris Exposition

Date: 1900
Description: Man sitting in a McCormick Auto-Mower in front of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company building at the Paris Exposition in France. Several men, a woman...
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Fort Wayne McCormick Dealership

Date: 1899
Description: View from across street of the three-story facade of a large brick building. A group of employees are posing outdoors in front of the McCormick Harvesting ...
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McCormick Reaper Works "Rest Room"

Date: 1899
Description: Two women sitting in the "rest room" at the McCormick Reaper Works. A piano is in the background.
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Threshing in the 1870s

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Description: Men and women pose in the middle of threshing operations with steam engine, horse-drawn wagon and a wheelbarrow equipped with a homemade basket. A handwrit...
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Farm Family Poses with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Men, women and children posing in a field with a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder.
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Woman Posing as if Drinking from Cup

Date: 1900
Description: Waist-up portrait of a woman dressed as a "dairy maid"(?) posing as if holding an imaginary cup or glass. The image was most likely used as a model for a c...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1900
Description: Front cover of a catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. The illustration portrays a little girl being frightened by a little boy. The girl ...
Print

The Evolution of the Reaper, Part One

Date: 1883
Description: Three illustrations from an 1883 McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog portraying the evolution of the reaper. The first drawing is captioned: "Firs...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Advertising Card

Date: 1886
Description: Front of a card advertising the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Illustrations show "primitive" harvesting methods alongside a McCormick binder and a ...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog

Date: 1890
Description: Title page of an 1890 McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Reads, "59th Year The McCormick Annual Catalog." An illustration titled "1830" shows a...
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Horse-Drawn Haying Operation

Date: 1900
Description: Men, women, horse-drawn mowers and buggies in a field. A horse-powered hay stacker is in the background with two men on a large haystack.
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Family on Porch

Date: 1897
Description: A man, three women and two young girls posing on the porch of a whitewashed log house. The man is wearing a suit and straw boater hat, the women are wearin...
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McCormick Reaper of 1847

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using a team of two horses to pull a McCormick reaper in a field, while other women and men are raking the cut grain.
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Horse-Drawn Binder Entering Farmyard

Date: 1900
Description: View from road of farmyard surrounded by a white picket fence. A man is riding on a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder. A small group of men are waiting in...
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Man and Woman with Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: A man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe is sitting in a field on a mower drawn by two horses. A woman is posing in front of the horses wearing a dress and h...
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Field with Horse-Drawn Corn Binder near Farm Buildings

Date: 1900
Description: View from distance of a man standing in a field with fences and farm buildings behind him. A horse-drawn corn binder is standing in the field, and cows, pi...

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