Poster
Testing the First Reaping Machine
| Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The scene includes racist depictions of enslaved African Americans. Oval insets are at top left and right: the left is of a man using a twine binder with a team of two horses, and the right is a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick. Printed for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company by the Milwaukee Litho. and Engraving Company. |
| Image ID: | 2497 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1883 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
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| Collection Name: | Advertising materials and catalogs, 1847-1902 |
| Genre: | Poster |
| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | PH 6419.94 (7) |
| Original Dimensions: | 35 x 24 inches |
| See also Image ID: 58621 for a backdrop from the set of the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper", and Image ID: 58620 for a photograph from the set of the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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