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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.
Photograph

Vegetable Farmer

Date: 1895
Description: A farmer stands in his vegetable field.
Photograph

Self-Binding Harvester

Date: 1899
Description: A man is operating a McCormick grain binder pulled by two horses. The original caption reads: "This machine represents the modern harvester by which grain ...
Photograph

Side View of Self-Binding Harvester

Date: 1899
Description: Side view of two men using a McCormick twine self-binding harvester pulled by three horses. The original photograph caption reads: "This machine represents...
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...
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McCormick Wire Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A group of men are using a McCormick wire grain binder led by two horses to harvest a field crop. A horse-drawn carriage is in the background. The original...
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Men in Field with Corn Binder

Date: 1899
Description: Men in a field with low hills in the background. Several men are on horseback. One man is riding a horse-drawn corn binder. All the men are wearing sombrer...
Photograph

Man with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1895
Description: Right side view of a man, wearing a hat and a striped shirt, operating a McCormick grain binder in a field with trees in the background. The binder is bein...
Photograph

Young Man Operating McCormick Mower

Date: 1895
Description: Rear view towards right side of a young man, wearing a wide brimmed hat, operating a McCormick mower pulled by a team of two horses.
Photograph

Man Operating Mower with Horse

Date: 1895
Description: Left side view from front of a young man on a horse-drawn McCormick mower (or dump rake) in a field.
Photograph

Man Operating Corn Binder

Date: 1895
Description: A man operating a horse-drawn corn binder is obscured by a single row of corn stalks in a field.
Print

McCormick Letterpress Print of Wire Binder

Date: 1877
Description: Letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder (wire binder). The grain binder is operated by a man seated on the machine and pulled by two hor...

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