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Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Print

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Siberia

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard of horses pulling a grain binder. Man seated on machine. Caption reads "Siberia — A Harvest Scene near Tobolsk, where American Harvesting Machines...
Photograph

McCormick Wire Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A group of farmers are using a McCormick wire grain binder, built in 1876. A horse-drawn carriage is in the background. The original caption reads: "The im...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from rear of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder on the Gary Owen farm. A farmhouse and windmill are in the far background.
Photograph

Three Men Harvesting Grain with Mule-Drawn Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men harvesting grain. One man is operating a grain binder, another man is standing near him, and a third man is sitting on one of the mules. In the b...
Photograph

Hauling Sisal Leaves

Date: 1915
Description: Men carrying cut sisal leaves to take to a decorticating mill (which removes the outer husk), loading them on a donkey, and tram car which is on rails.
Photograph

Farmer Picking Corn by Hand

Date: 1911
Description: A farmer wearing a straw hat and smoking a pipe examining or picking corn. Behind him is a team of horses pulling a wagon.
Photograph

Man with McCormick Binder and Horses

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using a McCormick grain binder pulled by two horses to work in a field on a hillside. The hill overlooks bundles of the harvested crop. In the bac...
Photograph

Haying

Date: 1929
Description: Oscar Steinkopf and his horse Jim. They are haying on Steinkopf's 40-acre farm. The photograph was taken by Alvin Steinkopf, Oscar's son, a Milwaukee journ...
Photograph

Men and Boys Posing with Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men and two boys are standing in a field next to a McCormick grain binder. On the right a man in a suit and hat is sitting in a carriage pulled by a ...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Brochure

Date: 
Description: Inside 2-page spread of fold-out brochure for Harvesting Machinery featuring a color illustration of a man using "The 'Bonnie' Binder, Right Hand" in a fie...
Photograph

Loading Hay

Date: 08 1898
Description: August and Alexander Krueger loading hay with pitchforks onto a wagon with a two-horse team attached. August is standing on top of the wagon while Alexande...
Photograph

Using a Deering Corn Binder

Date: 1906
Description: August, Alexander, Jennie, and Edgar Krueger cutting corn using a Deering corn binder. Alexander is standing next to the three horse team while Edgar is si...
Photograph

Stacking Grain

Date: 1908
Description: Alexander and August Krueger stacking grain. Alexander is standing on top of a tall pile of hay on a wagon, piling grain on the stack, while August is stan...
Photograph

Cutting Alfalfa

Date: 1910
Description: Alexander, Edgar, Florentina, and Jennie Krueger cutting alfalfa using a horse-drawn mower. Edgar is sitting on the mower holding the reins of the two-hors...
Photograph

Deering Binder Cutting Grain

Date: 1908
Description: The Alexander Krueger family posing with a Deering Binder being pulled by a three-horse team through a field. Florentina, Jennie, and Alexander are standin...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring a framed portrait of Cyrus H. McCormick surrounded by foliage. A putto is pulling away a drape from the portrait with one ...
Photograph

Man and Young Boy Using Horse-Drawn Binders in a Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man and a young boy are each driving a horse-drawn binder in a field. A man wearing a hat and suspenders is standing in the foreground on the left. On th...
Photograph

Men with Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Two men in field with horse-drawn corn binder. The horses are wearing binders and fly-nets.

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