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Poster

Deering Grain Binder Advertising Poster

Date: 1883
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration for the Deering All-Steel Binder with steel bundle carrier, produced by William Deering & Co. Includes an illustration ...
Poster

McCormick Advertising Poster

Date: 1902
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster for McCormick mowers and rakes. Features on the top half a young boy with a reaping hook/sickle and a young girl holdin...
Photograph

German Farmers Pull Log with McCormick D-435 Tractor

Date: 1960
Description: German farmers pulling a wooden log with a McCormick D-435 tractor against a mountainous backdrop in Alpine country.
Photograph

Violin Maker in Dyckesville

Date: 1946
Description: Possibly Louis J. Ropson, a farmer and violin maker from Luxemburg who lived in Dyckesville.
Photograph

Barn Raising at Lars Davidsen Reque's Home

Date: 
Description: Barn raising at Lars Davidsen Reque's home. Crew members can be seen mortising freshly hewn timbers with a hand-operated boring machine. Men are also seen ...
Photograph

Family and Workers in Field

Date: 1895
Description: A large family group and workers pose in field in front of farming machinery and haystacks.
Photograph

Sheep Shearing Contest

Date: 1951
Description: Winner Melvin Walker at work during a sheep shearing competition.
Photograph

Farm Hazard: Chopping Wood

Date: 1926
Description: A man demonstrates the farm hazard of chopping wood.
Photograph

Two Men at Work with Cement

Date: 1919
Description: Two men, possibly farmers, work with a wheelbarrow, shovel and cement mixer. One man is dressed in overalls, and both have hats and gloves.
Photograph

Workers and Foremen (?) Posing in Field with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A group of men in suits, presumably foremen or supervisors, and several men in work clothes, are in a grain field. Most of the men in suits are either sitt...
Photograph

Boys Working in Field

Date: 04 15 1925
Description: Boys using hand tools to work in a field. A mule-drawn wagon is in the background. They are all wearing hats and overalls.
Photograph

Man Making Adjustments to Plow

Date: 1921
Description: Close-up of a man's arm using a wrench to make adjustments to a P&O tractor plow hitched to a tractor.
Photograph

Men with Knife Grinder

Date: 1921
Description: Two men standing near the open doorway of a shed while using a hand-operated knife grinder to sharpen a sickle bar or blade.
Photograph

Poultry House Feed Bins

Date: 05 1924
Description: A man wearing a cap and overalls holding a burlap feed bag while standing near feed bins in the poultry house of Professor Holden. Tools are hanging from n...
Photograph

Man Butchering Chicken

Date: 1926
Description: A man wearing a necktie and collared shirt using an axe to butcher a chicken on a block of wood at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. A ...
Photograph

Dangers of TNT

Date: 08 1927
Description: A man holding a metal instrument approaching a tree stump to inspect why a dynamite blast did not go off.
Photograph

Mowing Machine Hazards

Date: 07 1927
Description: A man is kneeling on the ground beside a mower hitched to two horses while performing repairs. An agricultural tool is lying on the ground beside him.
Photograph

Man Adjusting 10-20 Tractor

Date: 05 1926
Description: A man is adjusting the hitch of a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor with a hook while working in a field at International Harvester's experimental farm.
Photograph

Man at Tool Cabinet

Date: 04 1926
Description: A man wearing a hat and denim jacket stands near a tool cabinet in a barn or workshop while looking through a drawer at Cutten Farms.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Tillage Tools Catalog

Date: 1935
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure with the title "Make Good Work Easy with McCormick-Deering Tillage Tools." Flanking the cover photograph is a list of McCo...

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