International Harvester Company Corporate Archives Central File, 1819-1998

Container Title
Part 1 (McCormick Mss 1Q-5Q, PH 6702 (7)): Original Collection, 1926-1933
Physical Description: 26.5 c.f. (34 archives boxes, 30 volumes, and 1 oversize folder);  
McCormick Mss 1Q
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   1-28
1926 August-1931 February
Box   2
Folder   1-4
1930 March-1931 April
Box   3
Folder   1-5
1931 May-July
Box   4
Folder   1-5
1931 August-November
Box   5
Folder   1-9
1931 December-1932 August
Box   5
Folder   10-11
1932 October-November
Box   5
Folder   12-15
1933 February-May
Box   5
Folder   16
undated
McCormick Mss 2Q
Centennial Committee Files
Box   1
Folder   1
Bulletin: IHC
Box   1
Folder   2-4
The Century of the Reaper
Box   1
Folder   5
Circular (sample)
Box   1
Folder   6
Clippings sought
Box   1
Folder   7-8
Expense accounts
Box   1
Folder   9
Family Centennial Committee report
Box   2
Folder   1
Guest lists
Box   2
Folder   2
McCormick Reaper (diagram)
Box   2
Folder   3
Miscellaneous checks, bills, etc.
Box   2
Folder   4-5
Miscellaneous notes
Box   2
Folder   6
Miscellaneous reports-celebrations
Box   2
Folder   7
Miscellaneous speeches
Box   3
Folder   1
Miscellaneous printed material
Box   3
Folder   2-3
Publicity
Box   3
Folder   4
Source materials
Box   3
Folder   5
Statue unveiling
Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI)
Box   3
Folder   5a
Addresses
Box   3
Folder   6
Committees for McCormick Day
Box   3
Folder   7
Movie
Box   3
Folder   8
Pageant
Box   3
Folder   9
Story
Box   3
Folder   10
Stories not used
Box   3
Folder   11
University periodicals
Box   4
Folder   1
Plans, schedules, etc.
Box   4
Folder   2
Programs
Box   4
Folder   3
Walnut Grove Farms (map)
Washington and Lee
Box   4
Folder   4
Addresses
Box   4
Folder   5
Bulletins
Box   4
Folder   6
Bulletin (proofs)
Box   4
Folder   7
College publications
Box   4
Folder   8
Committees
Box   4
Folder   9
Invitation (sample)
Box   4
Folder   10
Movie
Box   4
Folder   11
Programs
Box   5
Folder   1
Medallions and small Illustrated IHC Bulletin, 1931
Box   5
Folder   2
Instructions for unpacking and setting up 1831 McCormick Reaper replica (pamphlet)
Box   5
Folder   3
Saturday Evening Post ads (colored), 1931
Box   5
Folder   4
Advertising poster showing assembling of Reaper (Romance of the Reaper?), 1931
Box   5
Folder   5
Colored lithographs from Forbes Manufacturing Company, Boston
Box   5
Folder   6
Large poster of IHC motor truck, 1931
Box   5
Folder   7
IHC Motion Picture Film Service
Box   5
Folder   8
Advertisement, IHC-Country Gentleman, 1931 January 31
Box   5
Folder   9
IHC advertisement, pamphlet-tractor plowing, 1931
Box   5
Folder   10
World's first reaper, cards used with reaper models, 1831
Box   5
Folder   11
The Harvester Foreman, Thanksgiving, 1931
Box   5
Folder   12
IHC crop production costs (third edition, 1931 crops)
Box   5
Folder   13
Large display advertisement folders
Physical Description: 9 x 6 inches, folded; 10 titles 
Box   5
Folder   14
Harvester threshers mimeographed bulletin, 1929 April
Box   5
Folder   15
Miscellaneous letterheads, etc., with centennial imprint
Box   5
Folder   16
IHC pennant for motor trucks (orange and blue)
Box   5
Folder   17
Tractor farming
Note: Also Canadian tractor farming.
Box   5
Folder   18
McCormick works and twine mills-tractor works-centennial bulletin
Box   5
Folder   19
The International Trail, pamphlet, 1931
Advertising pamphlets, 1931
Box   6
Folder   1
Unlabeled
Box   6
Folder   2
Farm trucks
Box   6
Folder   3
Unlabeled
Box   6
Folder   4
Plows-drilled, moldboard and disk
Box   6
Folder   5
Threshers
Box   6
Folder   6
Corn shellers-grain grinders
Box   6
Folder   7
Ensilage cutters
Box   6
Folder   8
Cultivators
Box   6
Folder   9
Unlabeled
Box   6
Folder   10
Triple power tractors
Box   6
Folder   11
Farmall farming
Box   6
Folder   12
Farmall equipment
Box   6
Folder   13
Potato planting and digging
Box   6
Folder   14
Farm gears
Box   6
Folder   15
Springtime-tools
Box   6
Folder   16
Tillage tools
Box   6
Folder   17
Corn planters and drills
Box   6
Folder   18
Cotton and corn planters
Box   6
Folder   19
Grain binders
Box   6
Folder   20
Corn binders
Box   6
Folder   21
Fluted and double-run feed grain drills
Box   6
Folder   22
Corn pickers
Box   6
Folder   23
Spring needs
Box   6
Folder   24
Cream separators
Box   6
Folder   25
Saving the world from starvation (revised edition, 1931)
Box   6
Folder   26
Harvester-threshers
Box   6
Folder   27
Haying machines and hay presses
Box   6
Folder   28
Display file of current advertising
Note: 76 different ads.
Box   6
Folder   29
Foreign advertising
Note: 2 circulars, 7 pamphlets, 2 postcards.
McCormick Mss 3Q
Clippings
General clippings
Box   1
Alabama, Arizona-Illinois
Box   2
Illinois
Box   3
Illinois-Iowa
Box   4
Iowa-Kansas
Box   5
Kentucky-Minnesota
Box   6
Mississippi-Missouri
Box   7
Montana-New York
Box   8
New York-North Dakota
Box   9
Ohio-Oregon
Box   10
Pennsylvania-Texas
Box   11
Texas-Virginia
Box   12
Virginia-Wyoming, miscellaneous
Box   13
Miscellaneous articles to Foreign: Morocco
Box   14-18
4-H Scholarships
Centennial publicity accumulated by branches
Volume   1
Aberdeen-Buffalo
Volume   2
Cedar Falls-Des Moines
Volume   3
Dodge City-Fort Wayne
Volume   4
Grand Forks-Knoxville
Volume   5
Lincoln-Mason City
Volume   6
Memphis-Minneapolis
Volume   7
Nashville-Portland
Volume   8
Quincy-South Bend
Volume   9
Spokane-Winona
Volume   10-11
Miscellaneous
Foreign
Volume   12
Argentina
Volume   13
Australia
Volume   14
Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Poland, Romania
Volume   15
Brussels
Volume   16
Canada
Volume   17
Denmark
Volume   18
Finland
Volume   19
France
Volume   20
Germany
Volume   21
Latvia
Volume   22
New Zealand
Volume   23
Norway
Volume   24
Philippines
Volume   25
Sweden
McCormick Mss 4Q
Centennial Celebration Reports
Volume   1
Alabama-Iowa
Volume   2
Kansas-New York
Volume   3
North Dakota-Wyoming
Volume   4
Special, USA reports to Canada, Saskatchewan
McCormick Mss 5Q
Photographs
Volume   1
McCormick Harvesting Machines, 1831-1901
Volume   2
McCormick Day-Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, 1931 July 29
Volume   3
McCormick Day-Cyrus Hall McCormick statue (photographs by E.F. McGovern, IH)
Volume   4
McCormick Celebration, Washington and Lee University, 1931 September 25
Volume   5
A photographic story of the events commemorating International Harvester's “100 Years in Chicago”
Box   1
Cyrus McCormick-Clay statue and castings to miscellaneous
PH 6702 (7)
Oversize Folder  
Blueprints for replica of McCormick reaper produced for the Reaper Centennial Celebration, 1929