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Tobacco Farming

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Description: Farmers harvesting and loading tobacco on a tobacco rack to take to a shed.
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Strip Cropping

Date: 07 27 1937
Description: Contour strip cropping with corn, grain, alfalfa, grain, and alfalfa. Protected woodlot in background.
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Aerial View of Contour Strip Farming

Date: 1958
Description: Aerial view of contour strip farming with the Obert Olstad farm in foreground. The Carl Backum farm is in the background.
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Man and Cornstalks

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Description: Man in hat standing by cornstalks with husks peeled back from corn.
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Contour Farming

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of a farm and surrounding fields farmed with the contour method. Shocks of grain dot several of the fields.
Postcard

Threshing Time on the Old Farm

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored postcard showing a farm crew with horses, a tractor, and other agricultural implements threshing grain crops in a field. Women in dresses pose...
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Threshing Scene

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Description: A scene in a field of men posing on and near a thresher. A man sits on a wagon with four or five pairs of horses standing around him. There is an oval-shap...
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Fescue Bundles in a Field

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Description: Fescue bundles lined up in a snow-covered field.
Postcard

Farm Scene

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Description: Members of a farm family, including children, pose in a hay field with a team of horses. There are farm buildings and a barn with a windmill in the backgro...
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Norwegian Farmers

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Description: A farming couple pose together on the steps of a building with a sod roof in Nordfjord country. In the background is a lake and a mountain on the far shore...
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Tree in Hayfield

Date: 1936
Description: Shocks of oats form long rows in a large, rolling field. A single tree is standing in the field. On the reverse of the print is written: "Greenfield near L...
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Oat Harvest

Date: 09 1929
Description: Harvested bundles of oats in a field on the Dean farm.
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Crops in a Field

Date: 1968
Description: View of a field of crops at the Falls Canning Company. A barn with silos is in the background on the left.
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Oat Harvest

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Description: View across field of a man driving a team of horses in a field harvesting oats in the Fox River Valley.
Print

Case's Threshing Machine

Date: 1850
Description: Engraving of a man in a coat and hat feeding stalks into a thresher. The thresher is run by two horses on a treadmill at right. The grain is collected from...
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Hemp Shocks

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Description: Cut hemp stalks gathered in shocks in a field.
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Man in Hemp Field

Date: 1912
Description: View of a man wearing a suit and a straw hat standing among tall stalks of hemp in a field.
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The Greenwood Farm

Date: 09 21 1945
Description: Elevated view over automobiles parked in the foreground and across fields towards a farm, which has several buildings, including a large silo. Caption read...
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Solon R. Walbridge and Cabin

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Description: View across a cornfield towards a cabin and farm. A man is standing in the shade of a tree. A cone-shaped hill is in the background. Caption reads: "Pionee...
Postcard

Stream Crossing on S.T.H. #11 M 6

Date: 08 1925
Description: View from hill across a field towards a stream running along the base of a hillside. Caption reads: "U.S. H. 61, Crawford Co. Boscobel-Soldiers Gr. Road. M...

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