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Workers Loading Sisal Leaves onto Tram Car

Date: 1900
Description: Two workers loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a tram car on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The sisal or hennequen was used by the McCormick Company and...
Photograph

Harvesting Grain with Three-Horse Osborne Binder

Date: 08 05 1913
Description: Man harvesting grain with a New Osborne three-horse grain binder in a field.
Photograph

Tractor Pulling Four Osborne Binders

Date: 07 21 1912
Description: Men harvesting grain with four Osborne grain binders pulled by an Emerson Brantingham(?) tractor.
Photograph

Farmer Harvests Grain on Steep Hill with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of a farmer harvesting grain on a hill or ridge with a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder near Pittsburgh. In the background is a va...
Photograph

Man Harvesting Cotton with Mechanical Picker

Date: 1932
Description: African American man harvesting cotton with an experimental McCormick-Deering 2-row cotton picker mounted on a Farmall Regular tractor.
Photograph

Futuristic International Grain Harvesting Machines

Date: 1960
Description: Industrial artist's rendering of what International Harvester hay balers and forage harvesters might look like in the future ("future farm machines").
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...
Book or Pamphlet

IHC Pull Power Hay Press Catalog

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester. Shows pull power hay presses featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers ...
Print

IHC Hay Presses

Date: 1914
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for IHC hay presses featuring an illustration of a landscape of a valley with farms and fields.
Photograph

Men Cutting Grain with Cradles

Date: 1929
Description: Men cutting grain with cradles while other men gather it into bundles by hand. The scene is a re-enactment filmed in 1929 for the Fox-Hearst film "Romance ...
Photograph

Farmers Harvesting Corn with Farmall Tractor and Corn-Picker

Date: 12 04 1924
Description: Slightly elevated view of two farmers harvesting corn with a Farmall Regular tractor and a corn picker on the farm of C.M Hick.
Photograph

Farmers Operating Horse-Drawn Corn Binders

Date: 1900
Description: Farmers operating horse-drawn corn binders.
Photograph

German-Built International Farmall 624 Tractor

Date: 07 1970
Description: Color photograph of German farmers baling hay with an International 624 tractor built in Germany. The photograph was taken in the Grevenbroich area.
Photograph

Wild Rice Harvest

Date: 1960
Description: An Ojibwa woman, Francis Mike, harvesting wild rice in a boat on Totogatic Lake.
Photograph

Man Operating International Harvester Cotton Picker

Date: 1942
Description: African American man dumping a load of cotton from an experimental International Harvester cotton picker into a wagon.
Photograph

Unloading International Harvester Cotton Picker

Date: 1942
Description: Two men are watching as cotton is unloaded from an experimental International Harvester cotton picker into a wagon. A Farmall tractor is in the foreground.
Photograph

Experimental Cotton Picker

Date: 03 16 1927
Description: Right side profile view of a man pulling an experimental pull-type cotton picker through a cotton field with a Farmall Regular tractor. Another man is stan...
Photograph

M-11-H Cotton Picker

Date: 1947
Description: Man operating a McCormick-Deering M-11-H cotton picker in a cotton field.
Photograph

Farmall Tractor and Power Binder

Date: 08 22 1924
Description: Man pulling a McCormick-Deering power grain binder with a Farmall Regular tractor. The original caption reads: "N-81 Mr. Urfer (himself) with power binder....
Photograph

Osborne Grain Binder

Date: 07 31 1912
Description: Farmer driving a horse-drawn Osborne grain binder near a barn.

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