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Description: | Train pulling a long load of logs through the woods. Horses replaced oxen teams and are used along with wood burning trains to haul logs. |
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Description: | A crew of people from the circus, possibly Ringling Brothers, Barnum, and Bailey, holding up their catch after a fishing trip. |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings... |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | Color lithograph color illustration from the back of an advertising catalog printed for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing an arch commemorat... |
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Description: | A two-man team of sawers work on a massive tree with a crosscut saw (right) while a man with an an axe waits to trim branches. The trunks are then cut down... |
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Description: | Edmund Eisenscher (1909-1995), posing with his dog. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery. |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Advertising poster for Osborne brand farm implements showing a woman, child and dog enjoying a "group hug." Also includes color illustrations of a hay rake... |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Cover of International Harvester McCormick line catalog depicting a lush, golden wheat field with a farmer riding a horse-drawn grain binder in the backgro... |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | South American advertising poster for Deering featuring color illustrations of hay presses and ensilage cutters. Imprinted with "Rosario, Buenos Aires, Bah... |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | Advertising poster featuring color illustrations of Champion brand horse-drawn mowers, reapers, grain binders and hay rakes, as well as an illustration of ... |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. A small illustration at the top right is of a man using a horse-d... |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | Advertising poster for Osborne brand reapers, mowers, grain binders, disc harrows and dump rakes. Features a number of color illustrations of men using the... |
Date: | 1882 |
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Description: | Advertising handbill for the Champion harvester and binder. Includes the text: "the Champion light binder, is the only simple, light, durable, efficient wo... |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | Chromolithograph advertising poster for McCormick mowers and rakes. Features on the top half a young boy with a reaping hook/sickle and a young girl holdin... |
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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... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Four men harvesting grain in a field with two horse-drawn McCormick binders. (D.R. Robbins?) |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Workers hauling sisal leaves with rail carts and burros to a decortication mill in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The mill was likely part of Internation... |
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