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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 ...
Poster

Plano Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Advertising poster for Plano brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes featuring color illustrations of the implements and a woman holding two ho...
Photograph

Workers Hauling Sisal Leaves

Date: 1910
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...
Photograph

Drying Sisal Fibre in Yucatan

Date: 1910
Description: Workers drying sisal fibre (fiber) in long rows in Yucatan, Mexico. The fibre was used by International Harvester for binder twine production.
Photograph

Workers Hanging Sisal in Yucatan(?)

Date: 1948
Description: Workers, mostly female, hanging bundles of sisal on wires on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The plantation was likely run by the International Harvester C...
Photograph

Processing Sisal in the Philippines

Date: 1948
Description: Workers processing bundles of sisal in large piles at an International Harvester facility in the Philippines.
Photograph

Farmer Loading Hay Bales into Barn

Date: 1962
Description: Elevated view of a farmer using a hay loader (elevator) to transport hay bales into a barn loft. A Farmall 504 utility tractor and a Farmall 460 tractor ar...
Photograph

Deering Works Garden

Date: 1917
Description: Two women and a young girl gathering vegetables in the Deering Works vegetable garden. Original caption reads: "This garden furnished a bountiful supply of...
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Corn Planters and Drills

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the Kentucky line of International Harvester corn planters and drills. Cover features an illustration of a farmer...
Photograph

Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 
Description: Three-quarter view towards a man operating a Farmall Cub tractor in a garden.
Photograph

Farmall 140 Tractor with Cultivator

Date: 1954
Description: View towards a man operating a Farmall 140 tractor with an attached cultivator in a field.
Photograph

International Power Unit

Date: 1949
Description: International power unit powers an irrigation system.
Photograph

Man Tastes Wine in Vineyard

Date: 1975
Description: Color photograph of a man drinking from a glass of wine in a vineyard in France. In the background a vineyard worker is cultivating the field with an Inter...
Photograph

Phoenix Proving Ground Truck Testing Headquarters

Date: 1953
Description: Headquarters building for truck testing at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by International H...
Photograph

Cutting Down a Manila Plant

Date: 
Description: A Phillippine Islands boy is using a sharp tool to cut down a manila plant, while another young boy is supporting it.
Photograph

Sisal Leaves

Date: 01 22 1910
Description: Several workers standing in a field in Yucatan, Mexico, cutting sisal leaves. The sisal was used by International Harvester to make binder twine.
Photograph

Cutting Weeds

Date: 08 1929
Description: A man using a scythe to cut weeds from a pasture of wild carrots.
Photograph

Osborne Works Employee

Date: 10 06 1925
Description: A female factory worker(?) from Osborne Works posing for a portrait in a wooded area.
Photograph

McCormick International B-414 Diesel Tractor with Disk Harrow

Date: 1961
Description: A man sits at the wheel of a British B-414 tractor in a field. The tractor has a disk harrow attached.
Photograph

Wanda Lee Grace on Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: 16-year-old Wanda Lee Grace, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, driving her father's Farmall B tractor t...

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