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Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of advertising catalog for the Deering line of IHC harvesting machines. Cover features a chromolithograph of a field scene with shocks of wheat...
Photograph

Harvesting Wheat

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Description: Several men are shown using harvesting machinery in a field of wheat. Several teams of horses are pulling the machinery.
Photograph

Wheat Field

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Description: Two men pose in a wheat field.
Historical Object

McCormick Woodcut

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Description: Original woodcut created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. It has three sections and is connected using wood splines. An ...
Historical Object

McCormick Electrotype

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Description: Electrotype created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. A woodcut was created first, the electrotype next, then the letterp...
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...
Photograph

Fields of Wheat

Date: 1985
Description: Ripe wheat ready for harvest on a beautiful summer day.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1899
Description: Catalog cover with the headline: "Light Draft Ideals." Two eagles flying in the sky, and a border of wheat and flowers, are illustrated to look like a carv...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Catalog cover featuring a color illustration of flowers, moons, stars and stalks of wheat.
Photograph

1480 Combine

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Description: Four men operating four combines simultaneously in a field of wheat.
Photograph

1470 Hillside Combine

Date: 1979
Description: Two men pose on the platform near the cab of a 1470 Hillside combine in a field.
Photograph

1470 Hillside Combine

Date: 1979
Description: Left side view of two men posing standing on a platform next to the cab of a 1470 Hillside combine in a field.
Photograph

Field of Grain

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: Field of grain stretching to the horizon.

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