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Agricultural Manufacturing at Osborne Works

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Description: Agricultural machinery parts hang from hooks on a track suspended from a ceiling and winding around a factory floor at International Harvester's Osborne Wo...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne World's Fair Souvenir

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back of an advertising folder produced by the D.M. Osborne Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features illustrations of a young gi...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne Factory Scene Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne and Company showing a "scene in the Osborne rolling mill." The Osborne company manufactured agricultural m...
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of D.M. Osborne Catalog

Date: 1895
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne and Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features color illustrations of the New Osborne...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne Catalog Cover

Date: 1896
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Osborne agricultural machinery showing a woman and two young girls mixing ingredients for a recipe from an Osborne cata...
Photograph

Cream Separators and Milkers on Display Under a Tent

Date: 08 31 1934
Description: McCormick-Deering stainless steel cream separators and milers on display on a platform underneath an open-sided tent. Tractors and other equipment are on ...
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Fertilizer Distributor

Date: 07 25 1935
Description: A Fertilizer Distributor in a building, perhaps a factory. Sign painted on the side reads: "Made in Sweden."
Photograph

Woman with Home Canning Equipment

Date: 1915
Description: Mrs. Buckley, wearing a dress, apron, and bonnet, is standing next to a table where equipment used for the home canning of agricultural produce is displaye...
Photograph

International Harvester Dealership(?) Showroom

Date: 01 04 1921
Description: Showroom of an International Harvester farm equipment dealership or factory (possibly Osborne Works) featuring International 8-16 and Titan 10-20 tractors ...
Photograph

Trucks and Twine on Display Under Tent

Date: 07 27 1935
Description: McCormick-Deering twine, trucks, and other equipment on display under an open-sided tent. Banners and flags are hanging above the equipment. Groups of men ...
Photograph

Cream Separators on Display Under a Tent

Date: 08 26 1935
Description: A cream separator is on display on a platform under a large, open-sided tent. Men are standing around looking at the displays. Flags are hanging above the ...
Photograph

Factory Workers Among Hanging Implement Parts

Date: 1907
Description: Factory workers are standing among implement parts hanging from hooks suspended from a track on the ceiling at International Harvester's Osborne Works (lat...
Photograph

Man Working a Field with a Walking Cultivator

Date: 1910
Description: A man dressed in overalls and a hat is standing behind a horse-drawn walking cultivator in a field.
Print

D.M. Osborne & Co. Advertisement

Date: 1860
Description: Advertisement card that reads: "The Kirby. It Mows! It Reaps! It Rakes!" Includes a photograph that has been pasted onto the card of a man using the Kirby.
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne Catalog Cover

Date: 1899
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the D.M. Osborne Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features an illustration of a farmer in a barnyard w...
Photograph

Two Men with a New Osborne Tedder

Date: 06 09 1911
Description: A man sits on a New Osbourne six-fork hay tedder with his back to the camera at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). He i...
Photograph

McCormick Grain and Corn Binders at Dealership

Date: 07 20 1935
Description: Elevated view of a group of men posing outdoors with McCormick-Deering grain binders and corn binders outside Kilborne Bros., Inc., an International Harves...
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of D.M. Osborne Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for Osborne harvesting machinery, featuring a color illustration of a man operating a horse-drawn corn binder.
Photograph

Community Canning Kitchen

Date: 09 1926
Description: Man searching through cans of food piled in a wooden basket on a shelf in the distributing room of a community canning kitchen.
Poster

Dodge and Stevenson Advertising Poster

Date: 1871
Description: Advertising poster for the Dodge improved combined self raking reaper and mower featuring a color illustration of a well-dressed farmer on the machine pull...

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