Reaper Centennial Celebration Records, 1923-1936

Container Title
M2002-049
Part 2 (M2002-049): Additions, 1923-1936
Physical Description: 4.2 c.f. (11 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1923-1936, consisting of files from IHC's executive offices regarding the Reaper Centennial celebration of 1931 and documenting 4-H club scholarships, the development of the feature film Romance of the Reaper, commemorative coins, reaper replicas, toys, a dedication at Walnut Grove, and events at the company's dealerships and branch houses around the country.
Box   1
Folder   1
Reaper Centennial, undated
Box   1
Folder   2
Reaper Centennial, 1923-1929
Box   1
Folder   3
Address by Cyrus McCormick Jr. at the Stevens Hotel, 1931 January 15
Box   1
Folder   4
Agricultural motion picture-tentative plan for treatment, circa 1929
Box   1
Folder   5
Agricultural scholarships, 1931-1932
Box   1
Folder   6
American Farm Bureau Federation-radio broadcast on invention of reaper
Box   1
Folder   7
Arcade Toy Company toy replica
Box   11
Folder   4
Boys and Girls Club conference, 1931
Box   1
Folder   8
Canada Company pension plan, 1929-1936
Centennial dinners
Box   1
Folder   9
Branch houses
Box   1
Folder   10-11
Chicago
Box   1
Folder   12
Invitations and acceptances: officers, members of the board, McCormick family
Box   1
Folder   13
Knoxville, Tennesee-Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Box   1
Folder   14
Minneapolis, Minnesota-Parkersburg, West Virginia
Box   1
Folder   15
Centennial film letters-foreign
Box   2
Folder   1-2
Centennial letter sent to branch managers
Box   2
Folder   3
Centennial picture, 1931
Box   2
Folder   4
Centennial source material, 1930-1931
Box   10
Folder   1-2
“Century of the Reaper,” by Cyrus McCormick III (manuscripts), 1930-1931
Box   2
Folder   5
Chicago Jubilee Week celebration, 1931
Commemorative coins
Box   5
Folder   11
General, 1931-1932
Box   5
Folder   12
Distribution to McCormick family, officers and directors, 1931
Box   5
Folder   13
Furnished to outstanding business man, 1931
Box   2
Folder   6-8
Medallic Art Company
Box   2
Folder   9
Copies of invoices
Box   3
Folder   1-2
Shipment of medals and plaques
Box   11
Folder   5
Photographs
Correspondence
Box   3
Folder   3
1931 March-May
Box   3
Folder   4
Aberdeen, South Dakota-Birmingham, Alabama
Box   3
Folder   5
Bismarck, North Dakota-Columbia, South Carolina
Box   3
Folder   6
Columbus, Ohio-Evansville, Indiana
Box   3
Folder   7
Fargo, North Dakota-Kansas City, Missouri
Box   4
Folder   1
Parsons, Kansas-St. Joseph, Missouri
Box   4
Folder   2
St. Louis, Missouri-Toledo, Ohio
Box   4
Folder   3
Topeka, Kansas-Winona, Minnesota
Box   4
Folder   4
Regarding State Colleges, 4-H Club
Box   4
Folder   5
Decorah, Iowa article by M.T. Grattan, 1931
Box   4
Folder   6
Djamgaroff, George
Box   4
Folder   7
The Fair of the Iron Horse-centennary exhibition of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1926-1931
Box   4
Folder   8
Film
Box   4
Folder   9
Financial matters
Box   4
Folder   10
Foreign advertising, 1931
Box   4
Folder   11
Foreign letters
Box   11
Folder   8
Grand Rapids, Michigan-feature article
Box   4
Folder   12
Harvester World, 1931
Box   4
Folder   13
Hutchinson's book, Cyrus McCormick, acknowledgements, 1931
Box   5
Folder   1
Iowa State College; American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Box   5
Folder   2
Kellar, Herbert, correspondence, 1931
Box   5
Folder   3
Letter of announcement, 1930
Box   5
Folder   4
Letterheads and stickers, 1930-1931
Box   11
Folder   1
Local celebrations, 1931
Box   5
Folder   5
McCormick-W.F. McDermott's articles, 1931
Box   11
Folder   2
McCormick celebration (Washington and Lee University), 1931
McCormick, Stanley
Box   5
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1931
Box   5
Folder   7
Suggestions for anniversary of father's death, 1931
Medallic Art Company
Box   5
Folder   8
Broken plaques
Box   5
Folder   9
Plaques
Box   5
Folder   10
Medallion base
Box   5
Folder   14
Messmore-Damon, New York, 1931
Box   5
Folder   15
Metropolitan Sound Studios, 1930 May-December
Box   6
Folder   1
Metropolitan Sound Studios, 1931 January-November
Box   6
Folder   2
Mimeograph letters, 1931-1932
Motion picture
Box   6
Folder   3
Chandlee Treatment, 1931 February 4
Box   6
Folder   4
Tentative plan for treatment, 1930
Box   11
Folder   7
Newspapers by state
Box   6
Folder   5
Oregon State Agricultural College celebration
Box   6
Folder   6
Photographs of Walnut Grove, circa 1931
Box   6
Folder   7
Pickett, John E., speech
Box   6
Folder   8
Postage stamp
Box   6
Folder   9
Radio advertising plan, Famous Artists of the Air Inc.
Box   6
Folder   10
Reaper replica correspondence with Professor Gore regarding reaper at the University of Virginia-Charlottesville, 1931
Box   6
Folder   11
Replica letters, foreign
Box   6
Folder   12
Results of newspaper publicity
Box   6
Folder   13
Romance of the reaper scenario, circa 1929
Scholarships: 4-H Club
Box   6
Folder   14
Original scholarship list selected by Judges Arthur Hyde, E.J. Bodman, Carl Gray, Murphy F. Traylor
Box   6
Folder   15
1930
Box   7
Folder   1-4
1931-1935
Correspondence
Box   10
Folder   3
1930-1931
Box   7
Folder   5
1931
Box   7
Folder   6
Alabama, 1932-1935
Box   7
Folder   7
Arkansas, 1932-1936
Box   7
Folder   8
California, 1932-1933
Box   7
Folder   9
Colorado, 1932-1936
Box   7
Folder   10
Florida, 1932-1934
Box   8
Folder   1
Georgia, 1932-1933
Box   8
Folder   2
Idaho, 1932-1933
Box   8
Folder   3
Illinois, 1932-1935
Box   8
Folder   4
Indiana, 1932-1934
Box   8
Folder   5
Iowa, 1932-1935
Box   8
Folder   6
Kansas
Box   8
Folder   7
Kentucky
Box   8
Folder   8
Louisiana
Box   8
Folder   9
Massachusetts
Box   8
Folder   10
Michigan
Box   8
Folder   11
Minnesota, 1932-1935
Box   8
Folder   12
Mississippi, 1932-1934
Box   8
Folder   13
Missouri
Box   8
Folder   14
Montana
Box   8
Folder   15
Nebraska
Box   8
Folder   16
New Mexico
Box   8
Folder   17
New York
Box   8
Folder   18
North Carolina
Box   8
Folder   19
Ohio
Box   9
Folder   1
Oklahoma
Box   9
Folder   2
Oregon, 1932-1934
Box   9
Folder   3
Rhode Island
Box   9
Folder   4
South Dakota
Box   9
Folder   5
Tennessee
Box   9
Folder   6
Virginia
Box   9
Folder   7
Washington
Box   9
Folder   8
West Virginia
Box   9
Folder   9
Wisconsin
Box   9
Folder   10
Wyoming
Box   9
Folder   11
Letters from winners, 1932
Box   9
Folder   12
List of contest participants
Box   9
Folder   13
Newspaper clippings
Box   9
Folder   14
Prize letter contest winners
Box   9
Folder   15
School
Box   9
Folder   16
A plan for the International Harvester Company regarding the seventy-fifth anniversary of the McCormick Reaper Works, 1923
Box   11
Folder   3
Shenandoah Valley Fair Association, 1931
Box   9
Folder   17
Speech file, 1930-1931
Box   11
Folder   6
Virginia State Fair, 1931
Box   10
Folder   4
Works (factories) celebrations, 1931
Box   10
Folder   5
Yorktown Sesquicentennial Celebration