Photograph
McCormick Display at Columbian Exposition
| View of the McCormick display at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (World's Fair of 1893). The exhibit features several full size and scale model agricultural machines, including a grain binder and a reaper. A large framed portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick is on the right, and in the back of the exhibit, the McCormick Reaper Works factory in miniature. |
| Image ID: | 76650 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1893 |
| Creator Name: | McCormick Harvesting Machine Company |
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| Collection Name: | Glass negative series, circa 1900-1939 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 6Z, Box 590, File 00501 |
| Original Dimensions: | 13.5 x 11 inches |
| The signs on the display read, "The Grand Prizes of the World Are Here" and "All Harvesters of To-Day Are Based Upon the Features C.H. McCormick Invented and Built in 1831." |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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