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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. MC- 

 CORMICK 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 FlRE OF 1871, ON 



CHICAGO RIVER, EAST OF RUSH STREET BRIDGE . 82 

 MEN OF PROGRESS 96 



