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J.P. Morgan & Co. Distribution of Harvester stock : syndicate records, 1902 Nov. 24.

Title: Distribution of Harvester stock : syndicate records, 1902 Nov. 24.

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McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Expositions and exhibitions records, 1851-1900.

Title: Expositions and exhibitions records, 1851-1900.

Records relating to expositions at which the McCormick companies exhibited, both in the U.S. and abroad, chiefly in Europe. The importance the company attached to the need to exhibit its products and compete at international expositions is reflected in this series' many descriptive guides, catalogs, directories, judges' decisions, and commissioners' reports published in connection with such events. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above and described in the register; there are additional accessions which are described below.

ArchivalResource: 18.0 c.f. (17 archives boxes, 1 flat box and 86 volumes); plusadditions of 22 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173702175 View

McCormick Estates. Records, 1841-1969.

Title: Records, 1841-1969.

Records of the office which handled the interests of descendants of Chicago industrialist Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr. The office dealt with business and legal matters for the family; managed their many income-producing properties; reported on all financial transactions in behalf of the two incompetent children, Mary Virginia and Stanley; did the bookkeeping for a variety of trusts and syndicates set up by the McCormicks; handled securities in the form of stocks and bonds; gave accountings of notes and loans; and frequently rendered aid to family members regarding private matters. After the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company's merger into the International Harvester Company in 1902, the McCormick Estates office took on further responsibilities. Although all manufacturing was taken over by International Harvester, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company under its own name continued to receive payments for products previously purchased on credit (until 1910) and to administer a pension system for employees (until 1922). McCormick Estates staff served as advisors and accountants for the Company in these interests as well as for individual members of the McCormick family.

ArchivalResource: 99.0 c.f. (124 archives boxes, 6 flat boxes, 187 volumes, and 1 package)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145788958 View

McCormick, Nettie Fowler, 1835-1923. Nettie Fowler McCormick correspondence, 1775-1939.

Title: Nettie Fowler McCormick correspondence, 1775-1939.

Papers of Nettie Fowler McCormick, a philanthropist and wife of the inventor, Cyrus Hall McCormick, including correspondence with family and friends, with company officials, and with individuals, organizations, and institutions involved in her many philanthropies. Interfiled are legal documents such as powers of attorney, indentures, and contracts; and annual statements and reports. Correspondence before her marriage consists chiefly of letters relating to her own and her husband's ancestors and friends; relatives included the Adams, Esselstyn, Fowler, Merick, and Spicer families. She corresponded regularly with her children Harold, Stanley, Virginia, and Anita and with those who cared for Stanley and Virginia after their mental breakdowns. The papers reveal Mrs. McCormick's role as her husband's aid and her eldest son's advisor. The correspondence illustrates her involvement in business as she accompanied her husband on many trips, discussed problems and wrote letters for him, and in his absence received confidential mail relating to his business and their family life. After Cyrus H. Jr., entered the company in 1879 and became president in 1884, frequent communications between son and mother discuss the business, the estate, and investments. References are made to competitors, patents, and strikes of 1885 and 1886; the unsuccessful attempt to form the American Harvester Company in 1888-1890; and problems attending consolidation when the International Harvester Company was established in 1902. Her close contact with these interests, as well as investments and philanthropies, produced correspondence with lawyers, employees, financial agents, and advisors. Mrs. McCormick received informational copies of many letters and reports from the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and the International Harvester Company long after she ceased to be closely involved. In the 1890s, Mrs. McCormick gave more attention to her interest in philanthropy, an interest that accounts for fully half of her correspondence. The McCormick Theological Seminary, originally her husband's interest, continued to receive a major share of her attention and funds. Its administrators and faculty, as well as her own pastors at Fourth Presbyterian Church, consulted with her regularly and advised her on other schools and missions. Using the need for Christian service as her personal motivation, she became greatly interested in aiding small schools and academies, particularly those stressing self help for students, manual training, and domestic service. These were chiefly white although some were African-American. Letters give evidence of the extent to which she advised them, influenced their curricula, and helped to maintain them. The extent of her personal involvement is illustrated by her many years of correspondence with Harold S. Clemons, whom she assisted through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her interest in the welfare of those in the southern Appalachians led her to aid the Home Industrial School at Asheville under Florence Stephenson ; and to give encouragement to the Laurel schools and to projects in mountain crafts, out of which grew correspondence with Frances L. Goodrich. She helped support Thornwell Orphanage in South Carolina, writing to William Plumer Jacobs; and she kept in touch with James G. K. McClure Jr., of the Farmers' Federation in North Carolina. Mrs. McCormick also received numerous requests from civic groups in the Chicago area, and responded to many. Letters concerning the Presbyterian Church, its various boards of education and missions, and its publications comprise much of the correspondence; Bible work and rescue missions were also important to her. In the last thirty years of her life, foreign mission schools claimed much of her attention; and both the personnel and the institutions were her correspondents as well as recipients of her largess. The papers also document her great interest in both the Young Men's and the Young Women's Christian Association, locally, nationally, and internationally. Through numerous letters exchanged with John R. Motte she aided the World's Student Christian Movement and the work of the International Committee of the YMCA. She corresponded also with Fletcher S. Brockman, George M. Day, Sherwood Eddy, Carlisle V. Hibbard, Richard C. Morse, and Luther D. Wishard concerning the YMCA; and with Grace Dodge and Elizabeth Wilson of the YWCA.

ArchivalResource: 145.2 c.f. (351 archives boxes and 25 index boxes)

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McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Financial, distribution, and production records, 1848-1903.

Title: Financial, distribution, and production records, 1848-1903.

Central business records of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company for the period before the formation of International Harvester. The series consists of general financial accounts, agency records, customer accounts, factory shipments and stock (1857-1902), twine accounts (1888-1902), and records of real estate and rentals (1862-1901).

ArchivalResource: 3.0 c.f. (6 flat boxes) and.117 reels of microfilm (35mm)

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J.P. Morgan & Co. Harvesting Companies consolidation : syndicate records, 1902 Aug. 13.

Title: Harvesting Companies consolidation : syndicate records, 1902 Aug. 13.

Documents the consolidation of McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, Deering Harvester Company, Plano Manufacturing Company, Warden Bushnell and Glessner Company and Milwaukee Harvester Company.

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McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Incoming correspondence and reports, 1849-1902.

Title: Incoming correspondence and reports, 1849-1902.

Domestic and foreign correspondence and reports received by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company (1879-1902) and its predecessors, C.H. McCormick and Co. (1848-1859), C.H. McCormick & Bros (1859-1866), C.H. McCormick & Bro. (1866-1874), and C.H. & L.J. McCormick (1874-1879).

ArchivalResource: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and.418 reels of microfilm (35mm)

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McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Advertising materials and catalogs, 1847-1902.

Title: Advertising materials and catalogs, 1847-1902.

Advertising catalogs, leaflets, handbills, trade cards, brochures, and posters produced by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and its predecessor companies, including McCormick & Gray (1847); McCormick & Ogden (1849); C.H. McCormick & Company (1850-1859); C.H. McCormick & Bros. (1860-1866); C.H. McCormick & Bro. (1867-1874); C.H. and L.J. McCormick (1874-1879); and McCormick Harvesting Machine Company (1879-1902). The company manufactured horse-drawn reapers, mowers, and grain binders. Also included are news clippings (1867-1893), parts catalogs (1854-1897) and oversize posters and handbills. The processed portion of the collection is summarized above and described in the register; there are additional accessions which are described below.

ArchivalResource: 3.2 c.f. (9 archives boxes) plus124 oversize items additions of 2.0 c.f.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787522 View

International Harvester Company. Competitors' advertising literature, 1832-1950.

Title: Competitors' advertising literature, 1832-1950.

Catalogs, pamphlets, postcards, flyers, posters, and other advertising literature produced by over two hundred different agricultural equipment companies, primarily in the nineteenth century. The companies were competitors of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and later, the International Harvester Company.

ArchivalResource: 17.0 c.f. (48 archives boxes) and163 oversize items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145773524 View

Latta, Frank Forrest, 1892-. Frank F. Latta Collection: Skyfarming, 1802-1982 (bulk) 1860-1975.

Title: Frank F. Latta Collection: Skyfarming, 1802-1982 (bulk) 1860-1975.

The collection contains Frank F. Latta's research material from his five decades of researching the history of California's San Joaquin Valley and Miller & Lux, in particular dry farming known as skyfarming. Subjects include: agriculture and farming in the San Joaquin Valley, the development of agricultural machinery (combines, plows, reapers, scrapers, threshing machines, tractors and various types of harvesters), livestock, ranches, cattle, and crops, mostly wheat. Also covered are: early aviation, early automobiles, bears, crime, the Dalton Gang, the Donner Party, earthquakes, education and schools in the San Joaquin Valley, floods, freight and steamships on the San Joaquin River, gold mines, irrigation, canals and water rights in San Joaquin Valley, land grants, livestock, lumber, outlaws, pioneers, the Presbyterian Church in California, ranches, rivers, roads, saddlery, sheepherding in California, overland journeys to California and California politics, government and history. Also talked about are women, African Americans, Chileans, Chinese, Mormons, Native Americans and Jews in California. The collection contains roughly 180 oral interviews with people living in the San Joaquin Valley in the 1930s through the 1970s. One of the series contains drafts of the unpublished manuscript zSky Farmers and Mule Skinners with Something about Hay Muckers, Buckaroos, and Bindle Stiffs and a Sheepherder or Two.y Frank F. Latta worked on this manuscript for five decades. Individuals covered or represented in the collection: Grizzly Adams, George S. Berry, San Brannan, Robert Maitland Brereton, J. P. Collyer, John Charles Fremont, James Ben Ali Haggin, William H. Hall, Obed Hussey, Jesse James, Cyrus McCormick, C. Z. Merritt, Rufus R. Moore, Joaquin Murieta, George W. Nickel, J. Leroy Nickel, Harriet Quimby, Lovell Alexander Richards, Frank Day Robinson, Edward Francis Treadwell, Tiburcio Vazquez, Eli Whitney and William M. Wiley. Corporations covered or represented in the collection: Butterfield Overland Stage Line, California Department of Public Works, Caterpillar Tractor Company, Central Valley Project, Death Valley '49ers, Deere & Co., Early Birds of Aviation, H. C. Shaw Company, Holt Manufacturing Company, International Harvester Company, Kern County Land Company, Lux College, McCormick Harvesting Machinery Company, Miller & Lux, Pacific Live Stock Co., San Joaquin and King's River Canal and Irrigation Company, San Joaquin Pioneer & Historical Society, the United States Geological Survey, Bureau of Reclamation, and Department of Agriculture. Latta's research also concerns the development and history of Stanislaus and Kern counties and several California cities including: Bakersfield, Buttonwillow, Crows Landing, Fresno, Grayson, Gustine, Hill's Ferry, Los Banos, Merced, Modesto, Newman, Orestimba, Sacramento, San Francisco, Stockton, Tulare, and Visalia. The collection is made up of articles, Miller & Lux business and financial documents and records, catalogs, brochures, clippings, legal document, oral interviews, correspondence, manuscripts for publication, newspapers, notes, official reports, receipts and research material in general. The collection also contains hundreds of photographs, both color and black and white, slides, panoramas and glass plates. The Huntington Library also has a collection of material relating only to Miller & Lux that also came from the Latta Family Trust: Frank F. Latta Collection: Miller & Lux Papers.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 17,320 items.121 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228770256 View

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Legal and patent records, 1830-1896.

Title: Legal and patent records, 1830-1896.

Records from the McCormick company's early and continuing controversies with other inventors and implement manufacturers. Files from lawsuits are composed of briefs, records, arguments, exhibits, and specifications used in proceedings before civil courts and the U.S. Patent Office. Included also are descriptions of McCormick family patents; volumes showing the history of agricultural machinery patents, some dating back to seventeenth-century Britain; and a manuscript book of the McCormicks' own assignor-assignee patent records between 1860 and 1880.

ArchivalResource: 18.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes and 79 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173702171 View

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Letterpress copy books [microform], 1856-1902.

Title: Letterpress copy books [microform], 1856-1902.

Copies of outgoing correspondence of company officials and secretaries to agents, suppliers, shippers, lawyers, inventors, and other manufacturers concerning both domestic operations and foreign trade. Topics include sales and production goals; field trials and machine performance; prices and contracts; agricultural conditions; arrangements for supplying parts, repairs, and twine; competitors and their practices; problems with unreliable agents; collection policies; agent expenses and commissions; freight routes and costs; and the expansion of the agricultural implement trade. Three letterbooks of R. B. Swift deal with patent matters and inventions and improvements to McCormick implements. Three volumes contain the outgoing correspondence of field agents J. B. Heywood of Indianapolis, D. W. Pratt of St. Louis, and N. E. Barnes of San Francisco. One volume of circular letters to agents contains instructions on prices, sales and advertising strategy, assembly of machines, and similar matters. One letterbook is that of Harold F. McCormick as company vice president, 1899-1900. Letters of Cyrus H. McCormick, particularly concerning foreign markets, appear after he joined the company in 1879.

ArchivalResource: 8.0 c.f. (8 record center cartons) and.472 reels of microfilm (35mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122455549 View

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884. Cyrus Hall McCormick accounts records, 1859-1896.

Title: Cyrus Hall McCormick accounts records, 1859-1896.

Business, family, and household account books, 1863-1896, kept by Chicago industrialist Cyrus McCormick and his wife, Nettie Fowler McCormick, and bills, receipts, and statements, 1859-1891. The account books contain entries showing speculation in railroads, mineral lands, and other properties. Order stubs for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company are present for 1880-1884. Check stubs, bills, receipts, and commercial account statements concern chiefly household expenses, clothing, and travel.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 c.f. (10 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787549 View

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Home files, 1873-1936.

Title: Home files, 1873-1936.

Letters and other papers which McCormick had kept in his home rather than in his office. The contents of many of the folders are fragmentary, and in effect supplement correspondence or records in other series. Also included in the Home Files are letters by, to, or about numerous members and relatives of the McCormick family, letters from a few personal friends, material relating to McCormick's patronage of musicians and musical events, and data on household expenses and maintenance. Included is correspondence, 1892-1934, with the Rev. James G. K. McClure, president of Lake Forest College and president of the McCormick Theological Seminary, and his wife. Also present are recollections of ten men employed by McCormick, Deering, and other agricultural implement manufacturers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who were interviewed in California by Herbert A. Kellar in 1930.

ArchivalResource: 5.6 c.f. (14 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787542 View

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Letterpress copy books [microform], 1891-1928.

Title: Letterpress copy books [microform], 1891-1928.

Outgoing correspondence of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr., president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company (later International Harvester), 1884-1918, and chairman of the board, 1918-1935. The letters reflect external business conditions including the unsuccessful attempt in 1890 to combine with other companies to form the American Harvester Company; the successful consolidation with the Deering Harvester Company and other companies to form International Harvester; the role of J. P. Morgan and Company in effecting that consolidation; and problems attendant to the government's subsequent anti-trust suit. Internal operations such as plant expansions, introduction of new lines, and domestic and foreign marketing are also covered. Other topics include McCormick's personal investments; his service as trustee of Princeton University, 1889-1936; and his role as a member of the government's special diplomatic mission to Russia (the Root Commission) in 1917.

ArchivalResource: 72 reels of microfilm (35mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122455556 View

Smith, John W. Personal papers, accounts and receipts belonging to Walker Smith, farmer in Trafalgar Township, Halton County, Ont.

Title: Personal papers, accounts and receipts belonging to Walker Smith, farmer in Trafalgar Township, Halton County, Ont. 1882- 1896.

Includes an information pamphlet and booklet with constitution, rules of order, etc. of the Canadian Order of Foresters, 1890; Trafalgar tax payments for 1890 and 1894; various receipts for lumber, newspaper and magazine subscriptions, hardware, shingles, a binder from McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., Singer sewing machine, fruit trees and bushes, blacksmithing repairs and services, dry goods, etc.; semi-monthly statement for milk sold to Milton Creamery.

ArchivalResource: 29 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/629718826 View

Fowler, Eldridge M. (Eldridge Merick), 1833-1904. Papers, 1833-1835, 1860-1899.

Title: Papers, 1833-1835, 1860-1899.

Papers documenting the lumber and land-related business activities of Eldridge Fowler, brother of Nettie Fowler McCormick. Fowler was a highly successful timber baron in Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin. His companies included Fowler and Chapman of Bay City, Michigan. He was also president of the St. Anthony Lumber Co. in Minnesota, and vice-president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Other business interests included investments in office buildings and docks in Chicago and Duluth; the H. W. Fowler Car Wheel Co.; and the Tin Mountain (mining) Co. in South Dakota.

ArchivalResource: 8.2 c.f.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145785823 View

McCormick, Cyrus H. (Cyrus Hall), 1859-1936. McCormick family financial records, 1890-1958.

Title: McCormick family financial records, 1890-1958.

Eight financial ledgers for members of the McCormick family.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet (8 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/695694595 View

McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. (Chicago, Ill.). [Miscellaneous catalogs of harvesting machinery], 1869, 1878, 1880a, 1880h, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1893, 1896 [testimonials only], 1900, 1976.

Title: [Miscellaneous catalogs of harvesting machinery], 1869, 1878, 1880a, 1880h, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1893, 1896 [testimonials only], 1900, 1976.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270719462 View

Benjamin, Bert, 1870-1969. Papers, 1893-1968.

Title: Papers, 1893-1968.

This collection contains biographical information, correspondence, photographs of farm implements and family, and research materials. Topics discussed include the Farmall tractor, the International Harvester company, cotton production and genealogical materials.

ArchivalResource: .42 linear ft. (1 document box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53371246 View

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Private financial file, 1880-1937.

Title: Private financial file, 1880-1937.

Financial records of Chicago industrialist Cyrus McCormick, Jr. composed of correspondence; pamphlets; telegrams; legal documents including trust agreements, contracts, powers-of-attorney, and deeds of gift; clippings; reports; and financial agreements; dealing with McCormick's private financial affairs, bank loans, gifts, McCormick Harvesting Machine Company related liquidations and finances, the McCormick Historical Association, politics, salaries, and family correspondence relative to Harold F., Mary Virginia, Harriet Hammond, and Nettie Fowler McCormick, and Anita McCormick Blaine.

ArchivalResource: 15.6 c.f. (39 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787540 View

J.P. Morgan & Co. Harvesting Companies consolidated : syndicate records, 1902 July 25.

Title: Harvesting Companies consolidated : syndicate records, 1902 July 25.

Documents the consolidation of McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, Deering Harvester Company, Plano Manufacturing Company, Warden Bushnell and Glessner Company and Milwaukee Harvester Company.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270886660 View

Richmond, Emma,. Agricultural machinery photographs, ca. 1890-1915.

Title: Agricultural machinery photographs, ca. 1890-1915.

Photographs of agricultural machinery produced primarily by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, including gasoline engines, mowing machines, harvesters, and manure spreaders in use, ca. 1890-1915. Also includes images of agencies and a McCormick day celebration in Iola, Wis.

ArchivalResource: 26 photographs (1 archives box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173694344 View

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Paris exhibit papers, 1900.

Title: Paris exhibit papers, 1900.

Miscellaneous printed forms and similar papers concerning an exhibit by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company at the Paris Exposition of 1900.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787407 View

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Correspondence, 1870-1936.

Title: Correspondence, 1870-1936.

Private and business correspondence of Chicago, Illinois industrialist Cyrus McCormick, Jr., consisting of incoming and outgoing correspondence, copies of monthly financial records, annual reports, newspaper clippings, bulletins, photographs, copies of wills, and other legal documents. A wide variety of subjects is covered, including the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, investments, trusteeships and settlements of estates, charities and donations, membership in many societies, particularly in Chicago, and family affairs. An alphabetical index to correspondence can be found in boxes 300 through 303.

ArchivalResource: 120.4 c.f. (299 archives boxes, 4 index boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787524 View

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Business papers--real estate and trusts, 1897-1936.

Title: Business papers--real estate and trusts, 1897-1936.

Composed primarily of monthly, quarterly, and annual statements of the income from real estate owned wholly or in part by Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., or administered by him as trustee or executor. Besides real estate reports, more general financial reports by the trustees of Mary Virginia and Stanley are also included, along with legal documents appointing administrators of Stanley's property in 1906 and 1909. Also present are reports on the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., and material on the proposed additions to the Reaper Block in 1919.

ArchivalResource: 5.2 c.f. (13 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787541 View

McCormick, Harold Fowler, 1872-1941. Harold Fowler McCormick papers, 1892-1947.

Title: Harold Fowler McCormick papers, 1892-1947.

Papers of McCormick, a Chicago industrialist with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and the International Harvester Company; consisting of correspondence, notes, business records, appointment books, speeches, clippings, and printed items. These concern financial interests, civic groups, personal and family life, and his publicized peace plan during World War I. Of his business activities the Belle City Malleable Iron Company is best documented. A small portion of the collection consists of papers of his daughter, Muriel, documenting her interest in postwar relief work, the theater, and Chicago grand opera.

ArchivalResource: 36.7 c.f. (91 archives boxes and 1 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787574 View

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884. Correspondence and subject file, 1788-1939.

Title: Correspondence and subject file, 1788-1939.

Papers of McCormick, inventor of the reaper and a Chicago industrialist, comprising correspondence, memoranda, and letterbooks concerning the growth of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in both the domestic and foreign fields, and dealing with McCormick's many other interests, particularly the Presbyterian Church and several charities; his activities as a member of the state and national Democratic party; and his investments, chiefly in Chicago real estate, railroads, and mines. Also included are deeds, contracts, investment proposals, and other documents. Some of the letters are to or from McCormick's wife Nettie Fowler, their son Cyrus, Jr., and others associated with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. The earliest dated items were written or received by Cyrus' father, Robert McCormick, and by other family members.

ArchivalResource: 84.6 c.f. (192 archives boxes, 50 card boxes, and 8 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145788280 View

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Diaries, appointment books, letterbooks, school books, memorial volumes, 1875-1936.

Title: Diaries, appointment books, letterbooks, school books, memorial volumes, 1875-1936.

Volumes dealing with both business and personal matters in the life of Chicago industrialist Cyrus McCormick, Jr. The diaries contain references supplementing the correspondence found in other series by recording contacts and comments often not found in letters. For example, Cyrus, Jr.'s detailed diary of disagreements and negotiations with his uncle and counsin, Leander J. and Robert Hall McCormick, appears for 1879, when the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company was agreed upon. McCormick's office staff also kept diaries and journals for him and both he and his staff recorded appointments. Letterbooks of particular interest are his traveling copy books which contain letters to his parents and other business associates, 1881-1885 and 1887. Other volumes include his personal health record, 1888-1894; school books from high school and Princeton University; congratulatory letters on the births of his children; condolences on the death of his wife and on his own death; printed musical compositions by McCormick; clippings concerning Cyrus McCormick, Sr.; and letterbooks touching on family history, the McCormick Theological Seminary, the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund, and the private letters of John R. Hoagland, 1884-1895.

ArchivalResource: 9.6 c.f. (19 archives boxes and 8 oversize volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787534 View

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Time and payroll books [microform], 1858-1901.

Title: Time and payroll books [microform], 1858-1901.

Payroll books from a manufacturer of agricultural machinery. Information included generally is the payroll period, name of employee, number of days worked, rate per day or piece rate, amount of wages charged and credited to former balances, cash paid or charged or credited to a forwarded balance, and plant, department, or division where employee worked.

ArchivalResource: 35 reels of microfilm (35 mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122453931 View

Steward, John F. (John Fletcher), 1841-1915. John F. Steward papers, 1833-1913

Title: John F. Steward papers, 1833-1913

Papers of John F. Steward, a superintendent and supervisor of patents for the Deering Harvester Company and the International Harvester Company, chiefly concerning the history of the agricultural machinery industry. The collection documents the development of the twine binder, the accomplishments of several inventors in the agricultural machinery industry, and the efforts of Steward and others to dispute the importance of Cyrus Hall McCormick as an inventor. Includes patent applications of and correspondence with John F. Appleby, James Deering, William Deering, Elijah Gammon, C. W. Marsh, George Rugg, Cyrenus Wheeler, various agricultural equipment companies, and several pioneering inventors in the field; correspondence with and genealogical research about Obed Hussey; and notes, clippings, and drafts for a book that was posthumously published as "The Reaper: A History of the Efforts of Those Who Justly May be Said to Have Made Bread Cheap." Also included are correspondence and magazine articles pertaining to Steward's 1896 effort to stop a Bureau of Engraving and Printing plan to mint a ten dollar silver certificate with Cyrus McCormick's image; documents relating to competitions among agricultural equipment manufacturers, including the Paris Exposition of 1900 (in French and English) and the 1900 Siamese Royal Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition; correspondence about Steward's historical research and publications; and material relating to the purchase and improvements of Steward's farm in Fox, Kendall County, Illinois.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145774307 View

International Harvester Company. McCormick Company visual materials, ca. 1851-ca. 1950.

Title: McCormick Company visual materials, ca. 1851-ca. 1950.

Photographs and other visual materials, relating to the International Harvester Company and its predecessor, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company.

ArchivalResource: 7.3 c.f.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173693700 View

McCormick, Stanley R., 1874-1947. Papers, 1881-1945.

Title: Papers, 1881-1945.

Papers of Stanley R. McCormick, youngest son of industrialist Cyrus Hall and Nettie Fowler McCormick, who became mentally incompetent at the age of thirty-two; consisting of correspondence, notes, minutes, financial accounts, medical reports and charts, legal documents, and transcripts of court hearings. These concern his early business interests, arrangements for his care, controversies between the McCormicks and his wife Katherine, whom he married in 1904, and reports of medical consultants. The papers contain business letters of 1899 and 1900, chiefly in the latter year when he represented the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company at the Paris exposition and corresponded with his Chicago office, his brothers Cyrus, Jr. and Harold, their competitor James Deering, and the Company manager in Hamburg, Germany, W. V. Couchman. A few letters and accounts appear relating to his Cimarron Ranch on the historic Maxwell Land Grant in New Mexico, acquired in 1898 with John W. Garrett but later developed by McCormick. The bulk of the papers deal with the many problems concerning McCormick's care after his breakdown in 1906, and his progressive incapacitation due to a mental disease diagnosed as catatonia. In addition to letters of his wife, members of the McCormick family, and a few friends, correspondence of doctors and psychiatrists such as Frank Billings, Henry Baird Favill, C. G. Jung, Adolf Meyer, and George Tuttle is included, as is a special medical evaluation by August Hoch and Emil Kraepelin. Medical correspondence, reports by nurses and staff, minutes of the board of guardians, financial accounts, and arrangements for his care at the spacious California home provided him are all filed. Four volumes contain court proceedings of 1929-1930 regarding the question of guardianship and his multimillion-dollar estate. Guardians at various times included his wife, Dr. Favill, Cyrus Bentley, Anita McCormick Blaine, Harold Fowler McCormick, and Cyrus McCormick, Jr. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1881-1945, and is described in the register. There are unprocessed additions dating 1890-1909 which are described below.

ArchivalResource: 6.0 c.f. (15 archives boxes including 6 volumes); plusadditions of 0.8 c.f.

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