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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers in a field with a horse-dra... |
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| Description: | Railroad workers posing with a handcar on railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster featuring color illustation of three men and a dog watching a farmer harvest grain with a horse-drawn Deering Ideal grain binder. The me... |
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| Description: | Four workmen, two sitting and two standing, pose for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. They are all wearing hats, and there is a wood rusti... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men and a child, all wearing hats, are at the back of a Milwaukee grain binder. One man is standing with a cradle in his hands. An older man with a bea... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men working on haying operation in a field. Two men are driving horse-drawn wagons piled high with hay. One man is standing near one wagon holding an imple... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three men posing with a piece of McCormick agricultural machinery, possibly a sickle bar mower (?). The writing on the machine reads, "McCormick H.M. Co. H... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men are sitting and standing around a McCormick mower, while a man wearing a suit and hat is standing to the left writing on a slip of paper, possibly a re... |
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| Description: | Four men, a dog and a boy sitting on the porch of the general store. Signs in the windows read, "Ferry & Co. Seeds" and "Rape seed for sale." A barn and wi... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A bearded man in a coat and a straw hat is operating a mower pulled by two horses in a hilly field. Trees cover part of the hill in the background. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | The front side of an advertising card showing a farmer reaching over a fence for a McCormick machine. There is a portrait of Cyrus McCormick on the fence a... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a group of people posing in a field. Part of the field has been cut and there are stacks of grain piled at regular intervals. In ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A line of men and horse-drawn mowers in a field. One man wearing a bow tie is sitting astride a horse and waving his hat at the camera. |
| Date: | 08 01 1895 |
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| Description: | A group of farm workers, four men and four children, pose on the farm of H.D. Dutcher. The men are stacking a large pile of timothy hay, using a ladder to ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional cards showing the plentiful corn crops of John Carstens, created to attract farmers to the agricultural ... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) touring the World Trade Center Ground Zero site a few days after the 9/11 attack. Obey was there as the senior ... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Alexander, Edgar, August, and William Krueger husking corn in a cleared corn field. Each of them is holding an ear of corn, and a pile of husked corn is si... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Catalog featuring calendar pages. February features Lewis Miller, the father of the mowing machine, with text and a portrait. March has an illustration of ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of men with four horse-drawn mowers in a field. |
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