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Drawing

The Sunrise of Agricultural Prosperity

Date: 1890
Description: Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration for a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Features a drawing of men holding grain cradles in a wheat fie...
Photograph

Swedish McCormick Dealership

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of front of a McCormick agricultural machinery dealership in Stockholm, Sweden. Pieces of machinery are arranged on the building's front porc...
Photograph

Young Man Sitting on Hay Rake

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a young man sitting on a horse-drawn dump rake pulled by a team of horses. In the background are hills.
Photograph

McCormick Display at Columbian Exposition

Date: 1893
Description: View of the McCormick display at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (World's Fair of 1893). The exhibit features several full size and scale model...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Advertising Card

Date: 1886
Description: Inside of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company advertising card. Features color illustrations demonstrating the development of harvesting technology, in...
Photograph

Men Harvesting Hay

Date: 1902
Description: Men use horses, mowers, rakes and a hay loader to harvest hay in a field. A man is standing on a large haystack in the background.
Photograph

McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man uses a McCormick grain binder pulled by three horses to harvest a crop of what appears to be wheat near a stand of pine trees.
Drawing

Six Decades of Progress 1831-1891

Date: 1890
Description: Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration for a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Includes illustrations of McCormick's "first" reaper and McCor...
Photograph

Factory Storage Room at McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1902
Description: Factory storage room, probably at the McCormick Works, filled with farm implement components.
Photograph

Farmers Harvest Grain with McCormick Binder

Date: 1899
Description: Three farmers harvest grain with McCormick horse-drawn grain binder. One farmer is sitting aboard the binder guiding horses while two men, one with scythe ...
Photograph

Men Raking Hay in a Field

Date: 1900
Description: A young man is operating a horse-drawn hay rake in a field, while other men are raking by hand. There are large piles of hay scattered in the field. In the...
Photograph

"McCormick Day" in Owatonna

Date: 1899
Description: Elevated view of a large crowd gathered on a dirt road in front of a strip of commercial buildings to celebrate the arrival of a McCormick agricultural equ...
Photograph

McCormick Display at Columbian Exposition

Date: 1893
Description: Flags hanging above a McCormick Harvesting Machine display at what is possibly the World's Columbian Exposition (The World's Fair of 1893). A painting of a...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Advertising Card

Date: 1886
Description: Front of a card advertising the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Illustrations show "primitive" harvesting methods alongside a McCormick binder and a ...
Photograph

Haying Operation

Date: 1900
Description: Men are working with a horse-drawn mower and a horse-powered hay stacker in a field. Two men and a child are standing on a large stack of hay, and a horse-...
Photograph

Farmers Harvesting with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A group of men using a McCormick grain binder in a field.
Photograph

McCormick Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using two horses to pull a McCormick mower through a field, probably in or around Boston. Piles of what appear to be hay are in the background.
Photograph

McCormick Binders on Hillside

Date: 1900
Description: Two farmers are using McCormick grain binders along the side of a steep hill overlooking farm buildings below.
Photograph

Farmers Loading Crop into Barn

Date: 1900
Description: Five men are using a tractor to power a belt and grain elevator while storing a harvested crop in a barn.
Photograph

Harvesting Rye on Vogel Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Two men harvesting rye in a field with a horse-drawn grain binder. The men are working on the Vogel farm.

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