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Horse-Drawn Corn Picker

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

Man with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man is farming a hillside using a McCormick grain binder led by a team of two horses.
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.
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Jr. Grain Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1906
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Empire Jr. Grain Drills sold by International Harvester. Includes an illustration of a farm scene with farmhouse, windm...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Grain Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1906
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Empire Grain Drills sold by International Harvester. Includes an illustration of a man operating a horse-drawn grain dr...
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

Men with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Two men are lifting their hats and posing with a McCormick grain binder in a farm field. Another man is lifting his hat while sitting on one of four horses...
Poster

Deering Harvester Company Calendar

Date: 1902
Description: Lithographed advertising poster with calendar, featuring an illustration of a young girl with a parasol. Also features color illustrations of a horse-drawn...
Postcard

Buckeye Postcard

Date: 1900
Description: Postcard for Buckeye Mowers, Droppers, Table Rakes and Binders. Color illustrations of butterflies and flowers over a gold and yellow background surround a...
Book or Pamphlet

Emerson Manufacturing Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Forty-ninth annual catalog cover featuring an orange and blue illustration, over a gray background, of two yoked oxen. Directly behind the oxen a man weari...
Book or Pamphlet

Hoosier Grain Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1903
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Hoosier Grain Drills manufactured by the American Seeding-Machine Company. The company was later purchased by Internati...
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

Men with Deering Auto-Mower

Date: 1900
Description: A group of men outdoors are standing behind a Deering Auto-Mower holding Deering signs. The mower was an experimental gas powered mowing machine. The text ...
Photograph

Men with Tractor

Date: 1907
Description: Two men standing outdoors beside a 10-horsepower tractor, possibly built by the Ohio Manufacturing Company.
Book or Pamphlet

Acme Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Catalog cover, in Spanish, featuring an illustration of trees framing a view of a man working in a field with two horses and a harvesting machine. Text at ...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1902
Description: Front cover of catalog for grain and grass cutting machinery, featuring an art deco style frame with a landscape scene of a wheat field with trees, a windm...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Spread

Date: 1902
Description: Inside 2-page spread with a color illustration of a man in a field on a Milwaukee harvesting machine pulled by a team of two horses. A woman is standing ne...
Photograph

Henry Ford on Tractor

Date: 1908
Description: Henry Ford sitting on the 1908 model Fordson tractor. The tractor is attached to a plow, with another man sitting in the seat of the plow.
Photograph

Betsey Busied by Bossy's Butter

Date: 1905
Description: Woman churning butter.

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