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Photograph

Horse-Drawn Corn Picker

Date: 10 1906
Description: Horse-drawn corn picker parked in a cornfield. Farm buildings are in the background.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Corn Binder Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of red and yellow dried corn spilling out of a basket.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across partially harvested field towards a man with a horse-drawn corn binder.
Photograph

Man on Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man using a horse-drawn corn binder.
Poster

Hoosier Corn Planter Advertising Poster

Date: 1908
Description: Advertising poster for Hoosier brand corn planters showing a color illustration of a corn planter inside a "The Shield of Quality," with three corn cobs at...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Corn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Left side view across rows of harvested corn towards a man using a horse-drawn corn binder in a field.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 10 1906
Description: Rear view of a man operating a horse-drawn corn binder in a cornfield. Farm buildings are in the distance on the right.
Poster

International Harvester "Prospy" Advertising Poster

Date: 1909
Description: Advertising poster showing a little man with a corn cob body, a shield in the shape of the International Harvester logo, and a spear made of a stalk of gra...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Corn Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1906
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Empire Corn Drills sold by International Harvester. Features an illustration of a man walking behind a horse-drawn corn...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1902
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration, on an orange background, of a young child wearing overalls standing near a pile of corn, corn cribs, and a Plano H...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 10 1906
Description: Side view of a man operating a horse-drawn corn binder in a cornfield. Farm buildings are in the background among trees. The horses are wearing fly-nets.
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Corn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Left side view across rows of harvested corn towards a man using a horse-drawn corn binder in a field. A man wearing a hat, vest, sleeve protectors and a n...
Book or Pamphlet

Hoosier Corn Planters and Drills

Date: 1903
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Hoosier corn planters and drills manufactured by the American Seeding-Machine Company. The company was later purchased ...
Photograph

Man with Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a man with a horse-drawn corn binder. A man is standing behind the binder on the left holding onto a shock of cornstalks. In the ...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Corn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Left side view across rows of harvested corn towards a man using a horse-drawn corn binder in a field. A man wearing a suit walks along beside him, and two...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1902
Description: Catalog cover for Deering Corn Binders, Shockers, Huskers & Shredders. Features an illustration of a dried ear of corn at an angle, and inside the ear of c...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Corn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View across rows of harvested corn towards left side of a man using a horse-drawn corn binder in a field. On the right a group of four men are walking behi...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: A Heavy One

Date: 1908
Description: Photomontage of a giant ear of corn resting on a flatbed wagon. The ear is so heavy that is has broken the hitch, and the driver is going to assess the da...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: A Carload of Corn

Date: 1909
Description: Photomontage of flatbed train car holding a giant corn cob. Additional train cars and tracks visible in the background. Red text in the upper left corner r...
Map or Atlas

Commercial Map of Wisconsin and Portions of Adjoining States

Date: 1906
Description: A hand-colored commercial map of Wisconsin and portions of eastern Minnesota, Iowa, northern Illinois, and the Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The map shows ra...

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