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Wrights' Neighbor

Date: 07 02 1909
Description: Test flight of the bi-plane invented by Ray Zorn of Dayton, Ohio, who later resided in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
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Lindbergh Before the Flight

Date: 05 20 1927
Description: Charles Lindbergh receiving encouragement from an unidentified spectator as the "Spirit of St. Louis" is prepared for take off. Described by some as a fly...
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Field Testing Experimental Cotton Picker

Date: 03 16 1927
Description: Engineering photograph of men field testing an experimental cotton picker pulled by a Farmall tractor.
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Experimental Motor Cultivator

Date: 12 03 1920
Description: Engineering photograph of a man testing an experimental motor cultivator. Original caption reads: "In this job the cultivator is set farther ahead than in...
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Experimental Motor Cultivator

Date: 09 19 1919
Description: Engineering photograph of a farmer field testing an experimental motor cultivator with crawler treads. Original caption reads: "The motor cultivator with p...
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Limited Production Motor Cultivator

Date: 06 12 1917
Description: Engineering photograph of a man field testing a limited production motor cultivator. Original caption reads: "... the 1916 motor cultivator with the additi...
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Boy Operating Farmall Tractor

Date: 06 10 1924
Description: Engineering photograph of young boy cultivating a field with an experimental or early production Farmall tractor with attached cultivator.
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Experimental IH Cotton Picker

Date: 1929
Description: View across cotton field towards right side of a man operating an experimental McCormick-Deering side and rear mounted one-row cotton picker.
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Actors on McCormick-Deering Tractor

Date: 08 16 1929
Description: Man and a young girl plowing a field with a McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor in the Fox Film production "Our Daily Bread".
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No. 77-A Two-Row Corn Picker

Date: 12 03 1920
Description: Engineering photograph of an experimental No. 77-A self-powered two-row corn picker in a field. The caption reads: "No. 77-A two-row corn picker developmen...
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Filming of "Romance of the Reaper" at Walnut Grove

Date: 1930
Description: Film crew setting up a scene in which actors playing the parts of Cyrus McCormick and his slave Jo Anderson operate a replica of McCormick's reaper of 183...
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"Romance of the Reaper" Demonstration Scene

Date: 1930
Description: Still from the feature length motion picuture "Romance of the Reaper" showing a recreation of the demonstration of Cyrus McCormick's reaper of 1831 at Waln...
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Aerial View of Downtown

Date: 1965
Description: Aerial view of downtown Big Falls and the Little Wolf River. The Little Wolf River is at lower right.
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Little Wolf River

Date: 06 20 1965
Description: Aerial view of the Little Wolf River.
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East River with Train Crossing

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Description: Aerial view of a train crossing the East River in a rural community south of Green Bay. Some buildings are visible to the right and the background of the i...
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Aerial View of Scandinavia

Date: 1965
Description: Aerial view looking west-northwest over Silver Lake.
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Aerial View of Rosholt

Date: 1965
Description: Aerial view, looking west, with potato warehouses in the foreground and a pallet factory and junkyard behind them at right.
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Aerial View of Reedsburg

Date: 1957
Description: Aerial view of Reedsburg.
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Loading a Wagon

Date: 01 1916
Description: A farmer shoveling corn stalks from a field into a wagon.
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Deering Ideal Grain Binder

Date: 07 25 1913
Description: A farmer operates a Deering Ideal grain binder pulled by two horses.

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