Title: McCormick Company Visual Materials
Inclusive Dates: circa 1851-circa 1950

Creator:

• International Harvester Company

Call Number: M2002-175; PH 6680

Quantity: 7.3 c.f. (13 flat boxes, 7 archives boxes, and 10 folders)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Photographs and other visual materials, relating to the International Harvester Company and its predecessor, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Included are photographs, broadsides, original artwork, printed material, and posters mainly concerning promotion of the company product line through advertising and exhibitions. Also included are photographs, engravings, and blueprints of the company factories.

Note:

Forms part of the McCormick Collection.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2002175

Acquisition Information

Accession Number: M2002-175

M2002-175 Box   1 Folder   1	People relating to agricultural implements
Box   1 Folder   2	International Harvester Company officers
Box   1 Folder   3-4	Reaper replica photos
Box   1 Folder   5	19th century McCormick Harvesting Machine Company circulars
Box   1 Folder   6	19th century competitors' circulars
Box   1 Folder   7	Deering Company/Division employees, agents, captioned, identified, dated snapshots of foreign scenes by Fred W. Jones, 1897-1928
Box   1 Folder   8	Deering Division captioned, identified, dated photos by George Lincoln
Box   1 Folder   9	Reapers photos on various battlefields and elsewhere
Box   1 Folder   10	19th century self-rake reapers
Box   1 Folder   11	19th century reaper and mower printer's proofs, illustrations
Box   1 Folder   12	Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner printed items, 1880s
Box   1 Folder   13	19th century binders and attachments
Box   1 Folder   14	Twine binder and twine proofs and cyanotypes
Box   1 Folder   15	Wood mower and assorted twine-making machines
Box   1 Folder   16	Warder, Bushnell, and Glassner/Champion publications, 1880s
Box   1 Folder   17	Fowler McCormick posed with International Harvester Company executives?
Box   1 Folder   18	Photo lithograph with negative of Cyrus McCormick, 1867
Box   1 Folder   19	Miscellaneous blueprints of an 1899 motor and sweep rake, undated
Box   1 Folder   20	1851 McCormick reaper photos with catalog of parts, 1916
Box   1 Folder   21	Scenic view of Hanna-on-Yergh? glass transparency, circa 1899
Box   1 Folder   22	Field scenes of McCormick binder at Eaton, Ohio, 1899 Physical Description: 4 glass negatives
Box   1 Folder   23	Century of Progress exhibit, 1933
Box   1 Folder   24	McCormick hand rake reaper with windmill field scene, undated
Box   1 Folder   25	Office workers and foremen, McCormick Works, circa 1882
Box   2 Folder   1	Haymarket riot illustrations
Box   2 Folder   2	McCormick factory during fire of 1871
Box   2 Folder   3	“Rebuilt Chicago” series of illustrations of McCormick properties from The Land Owner Note: See also Box 7 for originals.
Box   2 Folder   4	19th century McCormick factory photos, engravings, maps
Box   2 Folder   5	New construction at Blue Island and Western Aces, 1899
Box   2 Folder   6	19th century McCormick machines in factory yard and twine balling machine
Box   2 Folder   7	McCormick General Agency at Fargo, Dakota Territory
Box   2 Folder   8	Cigar box label with image of “American Inventors” Cyrus Hall McCormick Note: Wisconsin Historical Images ID 3574.
Box   2 Folder   9	Fraser and Chalmers Corliss steam engine photos, circa 1890-1900
Box   2 Folder   10	Miscellaneous 19th century competitors' farm equipment leaflets and illustrations
Box   2 Folder   11	“Harvest Scenes from Around the World,” 1913
Box   2 Folder   12	Agriculture and farm equipment in Argentina including images of Agar, Cross and Company, captioned snaps submitted by International Harvester Company agent, 1914-1916
Box   2 Folder   13	International Harvester Company pension certificate, 1921
Box   2 Folder   14	McCormick, Deering and Tractor Works, circa 1922
Box   2 Folder   15	International Harvester Company officers at Springfield Works with superintendents of factory, 1922
Box   2 Folder   16	Motor truck advertising literature and photos, 1922
Box   2 Folder   17	Neuss Works, Germany, 1931
Box   2 Folder   18	Fowler McCormick and John L. McCaffrey, 1947
Box   2 Folder   19	Photo album of the International Harvester Company Board of Directors visit to Louisville Works to see Farmall Cub, 1947
Box   2 Folder   20	Fowler McCormick with military and government officials, undated
Box   2 Folder   21	Fowler McCormick visiting International Harvester Company European facilities, circa 1950
Box   2 Folder   22	McCormick exhibit at Virginia State Museum, circa 1931
Box   2 Folder   23	Drag cultivator print and negative, circa 1908
Box   2 Folder   24	Centennial of the Reaper potential illustrations, circa 1931
Box   2 Folder   25	Nettie McCormick, West Virginia Couchman, and George Hoffman photo taken by M. Boyer at trial of auto mower at the 1900 Paris Exhibition, 1900
Box   2 Folder   26	Cyrus McCormick Jr., Harold McCormick and other International Harvester Company officials in Neuss, undated
Box   2 Folder   27	Negatives of films of harvesting machines working, made by C.H. Ahmet Manufacturing of Waukegan, Illinois Physical Description: 25 mm negatives
Box   2 Folder   28	“McCormick's Reaper,” writing fragment by Cyrus McCormick?, undated
Box   2 Folder   29	International Harvester Company souvenir postcards from Paris and Panama exhibits, 1900, 1915
Box   2 Folder   30	First office of Cyrus McCormick Jr. at 606 S. Michigan, Chicago, Illinois
Box   3	Deering Division employee welfare, teams, recreation, women workers photo album
Box   4	Hand methods of harvesting, use of cradle and scythe in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Algiers, Harvester Club of Southern California banquet, circa 1927
Box   5	International Harvester Company original calendar art, matted, acrylic? paintings of farm scenes and International Harvester equipment
	McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Mounted Photos
Box   6	Machines, iron mower, McCormick binder
Box   6	Ship Alexander McNeil, “Loading full cargo McCormick's harvesters,” 1878
Box   6	Sociedad Rural Argentina
Box   6	Pencil drawing of McCormick binder
Box   7	Photos and caricature of Alexander Legge
Box   7	Images of Deering, Dixon (a Deering official), Withington, Appleby and others connected to the binder industry
Box   7	Group photos of International Harvester Company officers including Harold McCormick, Cyrus McCormick, and possibly Cyrus McCormick III (“Cyrusie”)
Box   7	Reaper Block, Chicago, Illinois
Box   7	Builder's specifications for McCormick buildings, photostats
Box   7	“Rebuilt Chicago,” related material
Box   7	International Harvester print advertising campaigns, “Security” and “Lessons from History” themes, circa 1916-1918
Box   7	Deering machines being unloaded from a ship
Box   7	J.D. Rockefeller photo
Box   7	Katherine Legge photograph
Box   8-9	McCormick Harvesting Machine Company pencil, pen and ink catalog illustrations of machines, parts, borders and titles, 1892, undated
Box   10-11	Romance of the Reaper Centennial Film, albums of scenes, cast, crew, props, and location stills, circa 1931
Box   12 Folder   1	19th century McCormick printed broadsides, originals, “Patented Virginia Reaper”
Box   12 Folder   2	Photographs and one negative of 19th century printed materials
Box   12 Folder   3	Allegheny, Pennsylvania general agency with employees, 1904
Box   12 Folder   4	First state fair of Oklahoma, 1908
Box   12 Folder   5	Reaper block under construction?, reference to Nettie Fowler McCormick, 1887
Box   12 Folder   6	Warder, Bushnell, and Glassner/Champion instructions and ads, 19th century
Box   12 Folder   7	19th century McCormick chromolithograph, color photo of Steele's Tavern poster
Box   12 Folder   8	Large size, 8x10-inch, negatives of McCormick 19th century printed material
Box   12 Folder   9	Mounted photos of reaper and binder on exhibit
Box   12 Folder   10	Bonanza farms
Box   13	Photostats of reapers, binders, header-binders, McCormick works, Deering binders, Deering Works
Box   13	Oversize photo of agents in field scene with Deering binder, badly damaged
	Exhibits
Box   14	Machine models, patent and exhibit models tracing evolution of mechanical harvesting
Box   15	1894 World's Columbian, small photo album
Box   16	1851 engravings related to London Exhibit, pages from the Illustrated Exhibitor
Box   16	1876 Philadelphia, McCormick wire binder finished for exhibit
Box   16	1878 Exposition Universalle, few related items, print of award certificate
Box   16	1894 World's Columbian, Chicago, loose prints, White City art folio
Box   16	1900 Paris Exhibition, McCormick Pavilion exteriors and plans
Box   16	1907 Jamestown Exhibition, McCormick historical exhibit
Box   16	circa 1950 International Harvester Company exhibit at Museum of Science and Industry, plan of layout
Box   17	1898 Omaha sight of Twine “retrospective” exhibit?, photos of twine making machinery
Box   17	1900 Paris Exhibition
Box   18	1900 Paris Exhibition McCormick pavilion interior and exterior, exhibit cases, auto mower at Vincennes
Box   19-20	Harvester's 100 Years in Chicago, photo albums parts 1 and 2, 1947
PH 6680 Folder   1-4	Diplomas, exhibit prize, and award certificates, 1871-1915
Folder   5	Layout plan of historical tent, circa 1931
Folder   5	Farmer's Advance, 1880 February
Folder   5	Uncut sheet of Case-International Harvester tractor trading cards by Ertle Company, 1995
Folder   5	Rough layout sketch of Tribune ad for Centennial
Folder   6	Farm equipment posters, color, issued during centennial year, circa 1931
Folder   7	John Deere Company, 100th anniversary calendar
Folder   8	Placards for display with 1931 centennial of the reaper replica
Folder   9	McCormick Building Reaper Block plans, encapsulated
	Instructional charts, five, possibly prepared by International Harvester Extension Department or Herb Kellar
Folder   10	The reaper historically
Folder   10	Evolutionary steps in agriculture
Folder   10	Longevity of farm machinery
Folder   10	Panel: “Scenes of McCormick Triumphs” illustrating world exhibitions 1851-1893