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Photograph

Halvor Nerison Hauge and Other Farmers

Date: 1874
Description: Halvor Nerison Hauge (1830-1906) had much to be proud of in 1874: an imposing brick house, modern harvesting equipment and a growing family. When Dahl publ...
Photograph

Picking Corn with Farmall H Tractor and No. 24 Corn Picker

Date: 10 28 1949
Description: Slightly elevated view of farmer Jack Warren picking corn with a McCormick Farmall H tractor and a No. 24 corn picker.
Photograph

Tobacco Harvest

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Description: Men in field with tobacco on wagon, and a barn and an outbuilding in the background. This is Lewis Dahl's tobacco harvest in back of his father's home (Nel...
Photograph

Threshing Grain by Horse Power

Date: 1834
Description: Threshing of grain by horse power, US patent.
Photograph

Man Harvesting with Reaping Hook or Sickle

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Description: A man harvests grain with a reaping hook or sickle. The man was likely re-enacting early grain harvesting methods for a company photographer.
Photograph

Farmer with Silo and Bull

Date: 1915
Description: A farmer wearing hat is standing in the middle distance beside a bull. Behind him is a large silo.
Book or Pamphlet

Gray Tractor Pamphlet

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Gray tractor "with the Wide Drive Drum." The color illustration depicts a man using the tractor to work in a fiel...
Print

Why Best Tractors are Tracklayers

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of an advertisement for Best tractors featuring a color illustration of a man using a plow pulled by two oxen to work in a field. The headline ...
Photograph

Farmer Standing in Tall Corn

Date: 
Description: A man in overalls stands in a cornfield looking up at the tall stalks.

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