| 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] |