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Worker Assembles Wagon Wheel Spokes

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Description: Worker inserting spokes into a wagon wheel apparatus at International Harvester's Accurate Engineering Works.
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Worker Trims Wagon Wheel Spokes

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Description: Worker trimming assembled wagon wheel spokes with a belt-driven rotary saw at International Harvester's Accurate Engineering Works.
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Young Worker Sands Wooden Wagon Wheel Section

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Description: Young man - possibly a teenager - sanding a section of a wooden wagon wheel with a belt sander at International Harvester's Accurate Engineering Works.
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Worker Mortises Wagon Wheel Hubs

Date: 1919
Description: Factory worker at International Harvester's Weber Works working on wooden wagon wheel hubs.
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Circus Show Buggy and Bandwagon

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Description: Dode Fisk, the operator of a dog and pony show and circus, drives a wire-wheeled show buggy pulled by the horse "Bobby". They are photographed next to a ...
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Circus Canvasman at Work

Date: 07 14 1897
Description: James Whalen, boss canvasman with the Ringling Brothers circus, at work in a van.
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Farm Museum Exhibit

Date: 1951
Description: Two men examine a hook attached to a huge wagon, part of a Farm Museum Exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Cheese Factory

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Description: Building thought to be a cheese factory, with workers and horse-drawn delivery wagons in the front.
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F-30 Tractor and 1-B Hammer Mill

Date: 11 01 1933
Description: Men working with a Farmall F-30 tractor, a No. 1-B hammer mill and a wagon near a barn. The F-30 tractor has electric lights.
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Steel Shredder

Date: 1930
Description: Men use a Farmall tractor and a steel husker-shredder(?) on the farm of Robert Rawley.
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Men Filling Barn with Hay

Date: 1915
Description: Men loading hay into a barn with the help of an International 15-30 tractor. In the foreground a man is standing near the tractor.
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Woman and Very Tall Man

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Description: A young woman and a very tall man stand together in front of the cookhouse wagon. She is holding a bottle of soda and offering him a hotdog; he has his arm...
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McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Agency

Date: 1900
Description: View across street of storefront of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company dealership. Men are standing along the sidewalk. Two other men are sitting on ho...
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 ...
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Exterior of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Dealership

Date: 1900
Description: View across street towards the front and left side of a dealership. On the street and sidewalk at the corner men and a boy stand near a horse-drawn wagon. ...
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Two Men Discussing Binder

Date: 08 23 1912
Description: Two men are standing in the factory yard discussing a binder. The man on the left is wearing overalls and a cap, and the man on the right is wearing a cap ...
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Racing the Storm

Date: 1976
Description: Farmers head for the barn with a load of hay bales as a storm looms overhead. A hay baler is hitched between the tractor and the wagon. Farm buildings are ...

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