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McCormick Reaper Illustration

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Description: Illustration of a McCormick reaper of 1858 in the field near a farm house. A crowd of onlookers is gathered near the field.
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Avery 130 Tractor

Date: 1915
Description: Men use an Avery 130 tractor with a gang plow to work in a farm field.
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Avery's "Infant"

Date: 1915
Description: A man sits behind the wheel of an Avery tractor pulling a piece of farm machinery. In the background is a long open building with a tower. The back of the ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Keystone Farms

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Description: View of barn, house, and outbuildings at Keystone Farms, owned by Owen W. Rolands.
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Farm Fields

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Description: Elevated view of a farm, fields and hills near River Falls.
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Bluffs

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Description: View across field towards bluffs covered with trees. The edge of the bluff has an exposed rock face. The leaves on the trees are autumn colored.
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Landscape with Hills and Mound Near Lake

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Description: Elevated view from a hill of a lake or river surrounded by fields and hills. The water is either marshy, or has been flooded, as trees and plants are growi...
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Bridge Over a River

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Description: Elevated view from shoreline of a river with an iron bridge over it. Buildings are on the far shoreline near fields, and tree-covered hills are in the dist...
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Rural Road

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Description: View across unpaved rural road that curves around to the left around a large rock formation with an exposed rock face with trees growing on the top. There ...
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Landscape with Rock Formation

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Description: View across flat field towards a tall, narrow exposed rock formation on the left with a few trees growing on it, and on the far right another rock formatio...
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University Heights Looking Towards Madison

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Description: View from University Heights looking south across hills and open fields towards barns and fences. There is a series of long barns and a long fence on the r...
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Man Pulling a Combined Disc and Harrow

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Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man pulling a "combined disk and harrow" through a field with a tractor.
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Man Walking Behind Horse-Drawn Harrow

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Description: View towards a man walking behind a harrow in a farm field. Farm buildings are in the distance. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Man Working with Walking Plow

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Description: Left side view of a man working in a field with a horse-drawn walking plow. Lantern slide.
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Man Walking Behind Horse-Drawn Spring-Tooth Harrow

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Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man walking behind a horse-drawn spring-tooth harrow in a field. Piles of harvested grain are lined up in the field....
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Man and Boy with Horse-Drawn Walking Plow

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Description: Seth Shepard and Willie Bletle with a horse-drawn walking plow in a field. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Field with Stacks of Freshly Cut Grass

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Description: View towards a fenced field with stacks of freshly cut grass. A farm building is on the hill in the background on the right. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Shell Mound

Date: 1930
Description: Poppies blooming in a field in front of a hill, right, identified by the photographer as a shell mound. The dark squares in the side of the mound are proba...
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Truck

Date: 1930
Description: A 1925 Ford Model T Roadster pickup is parked in a field of red-blooming wildflowers. There is a man in the driver's seat, another man is reclining on the ...
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Men in Field with Haystacks

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Description: View towards two men standing and holding pitchforks in a field with haystacks around them. Lantern slide.

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