Cyrus McCormick was one of the great successes of the American Industrial Revolution, as he was the inventor of the first commercially successful reaper. While he invented the machine in Virginia, his real triumphs began when he moved to Chicago and formed what would later become known as the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Over the company's long history it produced thousands of various publications, advertising materials, and short industrial films. This particularly strong online collection created by materials donated to the Wisconsin Historical Society includes thousands of images that date from the 1840s to the 1980s. Visitors may view these images by perusing a list of topics, such as farm equipment, railroads, trucks, and women at work. One topic heading that is definitely worth a look is the one dedicated to providing images for the 1931 Reaper Centennial Celebration. Here one may view images that include a re-enactment of the first McCormick reaper and a placard with a painting by N.C. Wyeth that celebrates the first reaper test, which took place in Steele's Tavern, A.