| A Chicago mower in Siberia | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE |
| Cyrus Hall McCormick | 12 |
| The Virginian birthplace of the McCormick reaper | 22 |
| A model of the first practical reaper | 27 |
| William Deering | 51 |
| William N. Whiteley | 53 |
| C. W. Marsh | 53 |
| John F. Appleby | 53 |
| E. H. Gammon | 53 |
| Asa S. Bushnell | 60 |
| Benjamin H. Warder | 60 |
| Hon. Thomas Mott Osborne | 60 |
| David M. Osborne | 60 |
| A self-binder in Scotland, with the Wallace Monument in the background | 62 |
| Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. | 85 |
| Charles Deering | 85 |
| Harold McCormick | 92 |
| J. J. Glessner | 92 |
| W. H. Jones | 92 |
| James Deering | 92 |
| American self-binders on the estate of President FalliÈres, in France | 135 |
| King Alphonso of Spain driving an American seeder | 138 |
| Bismarck having his first view of an American self-binder | 147 |
| An American harvester at work in Argentina | 151 |
| Gathering in a Finland harvest | 154 |
| In the ancient fields of Algiers | 158 |
