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Grain Binder Production at McCormick Works

Date: 1902
Description: Factory workers standing at stations apparently designed to test knotters for grain binders, most likely at the McCormick Reaper Works.
Photograph

Testing Area at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Men inside the McCormick Works standing at machinery doing research and development.
Photograph

Factory Workers with Grain Binder Parts

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of factory workers testing(?) the binding mechanisms for grain binders at the McCormick Reaper Works. Loose hay and hay bundles are ...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Cover of a catalog for International Harvester's line of Deering harvesting machinery, showing a man pitching hay.
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

International Harvester Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Cover of International Harvester McCormick line catalog depicting a lush, golden wheat field with a farmer riding a horse-drawn grain binder in the backgro...
Photograph

Barn Raising

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of a large group of workers, along with women, children, and dogs, posing on the frame of the barn they are building.
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

A Full Dozen

Date: 09 1904
Description: Edgar and Jennie Krueger playfully hunting for eggs.
Photograph

Sitting in a Barn with a Watermelon

Date: 09 1904
Description: Jennie and Edgar Krueger sitting in hay barn, cutting up and eating a watermelon.
Photograph

Hay Press, Horse Powered

Date: 1905
Description: Horse hitched to a hay press near International Harvester's Champion Works. A sign on the factory reads: "International Harvester Co. Champion Division." T...
Photograph

Eating Watermelon in the Hay Barn

Date: 09 1904
Description: Edgar and Jennie Krueger eating watermelon in the hay barn. The watermelon and a knife are sitting between them on a small wheelbarrow.
Photograph

Eating Watermelon in the Barn

Date: 09 1904
Description: Alexander Krueger family eating watermelon in a hay barn. Alexander, Edgar, and Jennie are each holding a slice of watermelon, while Florentina is cutting ...
Photograph

Two Children with Reaping Hook

Date: 1902
Description: A boy and girl gaze at one another in a haystack, one with a reaping hook and the other with a handful of straw. The children were models and the photograp...
Photograph

Passing Eggs in a Barn

Date: 09 1904
Description: Jennie and Edgar Krueger sitting in a barn, each with a handmade basket filled with eggs. Edgar is sitting atop a barrel with his right hand on an egg, whi...
Photograph

Englehardt Farm

Date: 1905
Description: The manufacture of bricks was begun on this spot sometime in the latter 1860's by Henry Bretag, a German brickmaker, the father of Mrs. Englehardt. Brick ...

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