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McCormick Self-Delivery Reaper
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McCormick Self-Delivery [self-rake] reaper parked in front of some wooden buildings. The reaper was likely the model displayed by Cyrus McCormick at the London Exhibition of 1862. A handwritten caption with the photograph reads: "McCormick reaper as used in the harvest of 1862."
1862
C. H. McCormick & Bros., active 1859-1866
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