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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 |
