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Farm Family Posing in Yard of Home with Horse-Drawn Mower

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Description: Farm family posing around a house and yard, with the patriarch sitting in the seat of a mower behind two horses.
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South African McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Dealership

Date: 1899
Description: Four men and a dog posing along the storefront of a South African McCormick Harvesting Machine Company dealership owned by C. North & Son.
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Woman Draws Water from Well

Date: 1920
Description: Farm woman operating a McCormick-Deering portable gasoline engine. The engine is driving a pump to draw water from a well into a homemade trough. Another w...
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Farmer Steers Horse-Drawn Mower Towards Brick Farmhouse

Date: 1899
Description: A farmer operating a horse-drawn mower enters a path leading to a brick farmhouse. The image contains architectural details, including decorative brickwork...
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Trailing Plow with Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: View across field towards a man using a Farmall H tractor with a 2-furrow trailing plow to work in a field. A farmhouse and several outbuildings are in th...
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Horse-Drawn Binder Entering Farmyard

Date: 1900
Description: View from road of farmyard surrounded by a white picket fence. A man is riding on a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder. A small group of men are waiting in...
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Four Men in Front of House with Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Man standing in yard in front of house and fence. There is a woman in the background sitting on the porch. A young man is driving a horse-drawn grain binde...
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Group of Men and Boys with Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man smoking a pipe sitting on a horse-drawn grain binder. Around him are young boys with horses. Another man is standing on the right. In the background ...
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Group of People and Horses with Farm Equipment

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men, children, women and horses posing with farm equipment in front of farm buildings, a farmhouse, and a windmill. A man is posing on a McCormick...
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Men in Field with Grain Binders

Date: 1900
Description: Men are posing in a row of horse-drawn McCormick grain binders. A man and child are posing in a horse-drawn carriage. In the background is a farmhouse and ...
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Three Men Harvesting Corn

Date: 1900
Description: Three men are harvesting corn in a field. One of them is operating a horse-drawn corn binder. In the background a woman is standing holding a child in the ...
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People in Yard Outside a Frame House

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Description: Man posing sitting on farm equipment, probably a grain-binder, pulled by a team of four horses in the driveway of a large two-story frame house. A man is s...
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Child on Horse-Drawn Mower in Yard of Victorian Home

Date: 1900
Description: Group of people posing in front of large Victorian home (Joseph Robbins?). A child is sitting on a horse-drawn mower in the yard in front. The horses are w...
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Group of Men Posing near Man on Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across harvested field towards men posing near a man on a horse-drawn McCormick binder. Farm buildings are behind them, and in the far background are ...
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Man with Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Right side view of a man sitting on a horse-drawn mower. The blade is in the upright position. In the background is a building with a roof over the open po...
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Binder Parked Near Road

Date: 1900
Description: Binder parked near a road. In the background on the left behind a fence is a farmhouse. A horse-drawn buggy is parked near trees on the right.
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Men Moving Cream Separators

Date: 05 23 1925
Description: Men moving cream separators using a truck. The sign painted on the passenger side door of the truck reads: "Hogge Bros. Beecher City, Ill." In the backgrou...
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Large Crowd in front of Dealership

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Description: View towards a large crowd on the porch of a dealership. There is a sign on the ground in front of the building, perhaps over a scale, that reads: "Osgood ...
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Man on Horse-Drawn Manure Spreader in front of Dealership

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Description: View towards a man standing on a horse-drawn manure spreader on the left. In the background is a dealership, with a sign above the porch of the building th...

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