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Photograph

Evaporator at the Chattanooga Plow Works

Date: 1919
Description: Partially assembled self-skimming evaporator at the Chattanooga Plow Works.
Book or Pamphlet

"Pattern for Postwar"

Date: 10 1945
Description: "Pattern for Postwar: The Nation's Most Modern Farm Equipment Store," pp. 12-13 from "Tractor Farming" magazine, No. 2, Volume 28, 1945. The article discus...
Photograph

Poster Illustrating Old and New Harvesting Methods

Date: 05 15 1928
Description: Poster or display board illustrating the differences between "old" and "new" methods of harvesting grain. Includes images illustrating harvesting methods b...
Photograph

Farmall Drawn Cultivators

Date: 07 10 1928
Description: View towards two men driving Farmall tractors with cultivators in a field. There are farm buildings in the background.
Poster

"Gambling With Fate" Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Industrial safety sign or poster featuring the "grim reaper" and advising factory workers to "be a booster for safety." The sign reads: "Gambling With Fate...
Photograph

Spreading Lime

Date: 10 07 1927
Description: A man operating a Farmall Regular tractor pulls a man shoveling lime from a farm wagon. In the background on the left is a barn and silo's.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Fairway 12

Date: 05 17 1934
Description: Ralph Teter, groundskeeper of the Aurora Country Club, sits on a McCormick-Deering Fairway 12 tractor.
Photograph

Indian Head Golf Club

Date: 1932
Description: A groundskeeper uses a McCormick-Deering Fairway tractor to care for the golf course at Indian Head Golf Club. A group of people are playing golf in the ba...
Photograph

Houck and Cherrington Hardware

Date: 04 28 1928
Description: Two men stand on the steps leading into the Houck & Cherrington hardware store while an International sales and service truck is parked alongside the curb ...
Photograph

IH Window Display

Date: 02 19 1927
Description: Various pieces of agricultural equipment sit on display in the window of The Winchester Store along with advertisements for the Primrose ball-bearing cream...
Photograph

IH Dealership Interior

Date: 02 25 1927
Description: Elevated view of a parts storage wall and various machines on display at the International Harvester dealership of Charles C. Matezcvk(sp?). Farm machines ...
Photograph

Walking Cultivator

Date: 06 07 1934
Description: A farmer uses a horse to pull a walking cultivator through a field.
Photograph

Unitarian Work Campers Cleaning School Grounds

Date: 
Description: Two work campers at the Highlander Folk School cleaning the school grounds. The boy in front is using a scythe to clear brush.
Book or Pamphlet

IHC Oil Tractors

Date: 1913
Description: Page from an "IHC Newspaper and Catalogue Electrotype Service" booklet featuring four illustrations of IHC oil tractors. Clockwise from top left, the illus...
Book or Pamphlet

IHC Oil Tractors

Date: 1913
Description: Page from an "IHC Newspaper and Catalogue Electrotype Service" booklet entitled "IHC Oil Tractors." Clockwise from top left, the illustration captions read...
Photograph

Cradling Grain in Field

Date: 
Description: The photographer posing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Krueger, cradling and raking grain in a field. She is wearing a dress, and a scarf over her head. ...
Print

FIELD TESTS are "NO GOOD" For a "No Good" Machine

Date: 1893
Description: An advertisement for the McCormick No. 4 Steel Mower in the December edition of The Farmer's Advance, a publication of the McCormick Harvesting Mach...
Poster

International Combines Advertising Poster

Date: 1969
Description: Advertising poster for International combines. Features a cut-away illustration/diagram of a combine (harvester-thresher), with parts labeled. Also include...
Book or Pamphlet

"From the Sublime to the Ridiculous" Field Tests

Date: 1894
Description: Cartoon on the last page of a McCormick catalog. The cartoon depicts the World's Fair field-trials in Wayne, Illinois, at which the McCormick mower prevail...
Photograph

Clarence Thurow

Date: 07 15 1929
Description: Clarence Thurow operating a McCormick-Deering tractor with a disk harrow attachment on the Col. R.R. McCormick farm [Robert Rutherford McCormick?].

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