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Harvesting Grain with Three-Horse Osborne Binder

Date: 08 05 1913
Description: Man harvesting grain with a New Osborne three-horse grain binder in a field.
Photograph

Farmer Poses with Watermelon aboard Cotton Picker

Date: 1944
Description: Farm worker, Frank White, stops harvesting to pose with watermelon found among the cotton crop. The field, part of the O'Neill Ranch located in Helm, Calif...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Header and Header Binder Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of headers and header binders. Features a color chromolithograph illustrat...
Photograph

Cotton Picker on Farmall Regular Tractor

Date: 1932
Description: Man operating an experimental 2-row cotton picker built around a Farmall Regular tractor [original caption reads: "Regular Farmall & 2 row cotton picker"]....
Photograph

Women Peeling Apples

Date: 1944
Description: Three seated women with bowls on their laps peel apples outdoors while two men stand in the background.
Photograph

Cranberry Cleaning Equipment

Date: 1960
Description: Men loading freshly harvested cranberries into a cleaning machine. Plant debris is still visibly mixed in with the berries.
Book or Pamphlet

The Baker Line

Date: 1929
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Baker line of agricultural equipment, including gas tractors, steam engines, and grain threshers. A photograph at ...
Photograph

Man Operating IH Hay Loader in a Field

Date: 10 06 1928
Description: A man dressed in work clothes and a hat is standing on top of an IH hay loader, using what is probably a pitch fork to pack hay. The implement is in a hay ...
Print

Rumely Farm Truck

Date: 1921
Description: Front cover of an advertisement for the Rumely 1 1/2 ton farm truck. An illustration depicts a man driving the truck past a cornfield and farm buildings.
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Catalog Back Cover

Date: 1898
Description: Back cover with a color illustration of a man using a Buckeye binder in a field drawn by a team of two horses. On the left a woman wearing a dress and apro...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1894
Description: Catalog cover featuring illustrations along with the text: "The Foreign Commisioners Visit the Northwest, and Learn Why Bonanza Farming Pays." At the top i...
Photograph

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne Picking Fruit

Date: 1949
Description: Alfred Lunt standing on a wooden ladder and picking plums from a tree in the Ten Chimneys orchard. Lynn Fontanne stands below holding a basket to collect t...
Photograph

Two Men Using Horse-Drawn Binders in a Field

Date: 1900
Description: Two men are using horse-drawn McCormick binders in a field. One of the horses is wearing a fly-net.
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man standing on a platform binding corn stalks.
Photograph

Man Lifting Corn Stalk from Platform of Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Man standing at side of horse-drawn corn binder and lifting a bound shock of corn stalks off of the platform.
Photograph

Farmall H Tractor with 14P Corn Picker

Date: 1947
Description: Elevated view from front of a man driving a Farmall H tractor with a 14P corn picker in a cornfield. A light dusting of snow is in the field.
Photograph

Tractor-Drawn Harvester-Thresher

Date: 07 21 1926
Description: View across field towards two men using a tractor-drawn harvester-thresher.
Photograph

Men Working with Hay Presses

Date: 07 12 1929
Description: View towards a group of men working with a hay press in a field.
Photograph

The Harvest

Date: 1963
Description: A man shocking oats at harvest time.
Photograph

Feeding the Thresher

Date: 1959
Description: Paul Lembcke and his son Roy threshing grain on their farm at harvest time.

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