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McCormick's 1834 Reaper Patent
1897
Official copy of Cyrus McCormick's 1834 reaper patent. This copy was made by the Patent Office at the request of the McCormick family.
McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper
1851
Handbill or Broadsheet advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper. Includes an illustration of the reaper in use. One man is driving the horses, another raking the cut grain from the reaper's p...
Illustration of Cyrus McCormick's Reaper
1887
Illustration of men harvesting grain with Cyrus McCormick's reaper of 1831. The illustration appeared in an advertising folder produced by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Includes the tex...
McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper
1850
Broadside advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper, manufactured by what was then known as C.H. McCormick & Co. Features an illustration of the reaper in use. This early model required a pers...
Cyrus McCormick's Reaper Patent
1834
Press release image compiled by the International Harvester Company. The image includes "excerpts of the patent grant from the U.S. Patent Office to Cyrus Hall McCormick for his reaper, patented Ju...
First McCormick Reaper Re-Enactment
1929
Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playing the part of Cyrus McCormick's slave, Jo...
