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McCormick Catalog Art
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Color lithograph illustration on the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a buffalo gazing down upon men with harvesting machinery in a field. Includes the text: "The Last of His Race" and "What Was Only a Few Years Ago the Grazing Ground of the Buffalo is now the Home of the McCormick."
1889
International Harvester Company
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W012S8G
WHi 4398
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McCormick Catalog Cover
1889
Color lithograph cover illustration on the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a Persian horseman on the side of a cliff looking down upon a caravan of farm machinery with the capti...
McCormick Catalog Cover
1884
Cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing a "reaper used by ancient Gauls, First Century." The "reaper" is framed by a reaping hook, flowers and a humming...
McCormick Catalog Cover
1899
Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a field of grain with a man harvesting by hand at an "1801" marker and a man harvesting with a horse-...
McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster
1915
Advertising poster for McCormick brand farm implements featuring two men paddling a canoe in rough water. Also includes color illustrations of a reaper, hay rake, grain binder and mower. Printed by...
McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster
1923
Advertising poster for International Harvester's McCormick line of harvesting machinery. Includes color illustrations of a grain binder, mower, reaper, and hay rake. Printed by the Herman Litho Co....
McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thresher Advertising Poster
1926
Advertising poster for the McCormick-Deering harvester-thresher (combine). Includes a color illustration of a man pulling the machine with a McCormick-Deering tractor.
