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Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick Frontispiece
Old Blacksmith Shop on Walnut Grove Farm, Virginia 14
The Old McCormick Homestead, Walnut Grove Farm, Rockbridge County, Virginia 18
Portrait of Robert McCormick 22
Portrait of Mrs. Mary Ann Hall McCormick 24
New Providence Church, Rockbridge County, Virginia 28
Facsimiles from Manuscript by Mr. McCormick, Giving his Own Account of the Origin of the Reaper 30
First Practical Reaping Machine 34
The Field on which the First McCormick Reaper was Tried, Walnut Grove Farm, Virginia 38
Interior of Blacksmith Shop in which C. H. McCormick Built his First Reaper 42
Reaping with Crude Knives in India 50
Reaping with Sickles in Algeria 56
Reaping with Cradles in Illinois 60
An Early Advertisement for McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper 64
The McCormick Reaper of 1847, on which Seats were Placed for the Driver and the Raker 70
Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, 1839 76
Panoramic View Showing the McCormick Reaper Works before the Chicago Fire of 1871, on Chicago River, East of Rush Street Bridge 82
Men of Progress 96
The First McCormick Self-Rake Reaping Machine 112
Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, 1858 120
Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, 1867 136
McCormick Reaper Cutting on a Side Hill in Pennsylvania 144
Reaper Drawn by Oxen in Algeria 150
The Reaper in Heavy Grain 166
Harvesting near Spokane, Washington 174
Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, 1883 182
The Works of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company 190
McCormick Reaper in Use in Russia 196
Chart Showing Relative Distribution of Values by Producing Countries of 1908 of World's Production Of Five Principal Grains 206
Chart Showing Relative Values in 1908 of the World's Production of the Five Principal Grains 206
Mammoth Wheat-Field in South Dakota with Twenty Harvesters in Line 214
Harvesting in Roumania 222
Harvesting Heavy Grain, South America 230
Indians Reaping their Harvest, White Earth, Minnesota 236
A Harvest Scene Upon a Russian Estate 242

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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