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Champion Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Advertising poster featuring color illustrations of Champion brand horse-drawn mowers, reapers, grain binders and hay rakes, as well as an illustration of ...
Photograph

N.C. Wyeth Depiction of McCormick Reaper Demonstration

Date: 1931
Description: Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh...
Poster

Milwaukee Farm Implements

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster for International Milwaukee farm implements. Imprinted with "Rappresentanti Generali per l'Italia A. Tremontoni & Figli Bologna, I...
Poster

Milwaukee Farm Implements

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster for International Milwaukee farm implements. Imprinted with "Agence Generale Belge des Machines Milwaukee 52 rue du Viaduc a Tourn...
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

Harold McCormick Family Portrait at Walnut Grove, Virginia

Date: 1922
Description: Harold F. McCormick family, farm laborers, and various animals on the Walnut Grove estate at Raphine, Virginia. Harold McCormick was the son of Cyrus Hall ...
Postcard

First Wisconsin Aviator-A.P. Warner

Date: 11 04 1909
Description: Color postcard depicting Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit flying his Curtiss Pusher for the first time, November 4, 1909. Warner was the first person in Wisco...
Photograph

Office and Company Store

Date: 01 13 1919
Description: Office and company store. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin Steel Company. Wisconsin Steel wa...
Photograph

Farmer with Horse-Drawn McCormick Disk Harrow

Date: 06 12 1919
Description: Farmer riding down a dirt path on a horse-drawn McCormick disc harrow on transport wheels.
Photograph

Paving University Avenue

Date: 08 22 1929
Description: Steam shovel loading a truck as part of road construction in front of Collins Lumber Co., 2308 University Avenue. There is a horse-drawn wagon passing by. ...
Photograph

Farmer and Son on F-12 Tractor

Date: 10 27 1936
Description: Farmer Sam Tanaka posing with his son on a Farmall F-12 tractor in a cauliflower field.
Book or Pamphlet

Keystone Tillage Implements Catalog Cover

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Keystone line of tillage implements. Features an illustration from behind of a man standing o...
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1914
Description: Advertising catalog for International Harvester's Champion line of farm machinery. Features an illustration of a farmer using a Champion binder with a fenc...
Photograph

Planting Corn with Farmall Tractor

Date: 06 17 1927
Description: Farmer planting corn with a Farmall tractor and corn planter on the farm of D.H. Hummell.
Photograph

Farmall M Tractor, 75-P Field Hay Chopper, Trailer and Truck

Date: 1950
Description: Two farmers are working in a field with a McCormick Farmall M tractor, a 75-P field hay chopper, a trailer and an International truck.
Photograph

Farmall M Tractor with Mower Attachment

Date: 1950
Description: Three-quarter view from rear left side of a farmer in a field operating a McCormick Farmall M tractor with attached mower. Farm buildings are in the backgr...
Photograph

International A-140 Metro Milk Truck

Date: 1961
Description: Milkman making a delivery from an International A-140 Metro milk truck. The truck was owned by Whiting's Milk.
Photograph

Fair Oaks Streetcar

Date: 1910
Description: An open streetcar labeled Fair Oaks sitting near Forest Hills Cemetery, which was then the end of the line. The motorman has been identified as Jack Schwen...
Photograph

Tearing down Eau Claire House

Date: 1920
Description: Tearing down Eau Claire House to make way for the Y.M.C.A. building. A man is standing on the roof. A sign in the street reads, in part: "Electric Light He...

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