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Hop Pickers

Date: 1879
Description: Hop harvesters, mostly female, stand with hops, probably on the farm of Knudt Heimdal. Many of the harvesters have hop wreaths on their heads. Two men with...
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Horse and Buggy on a Country Road

Date: 1906
Description: View down tree-lined country road near Wausau, taken by Dr. Joseph Smith, talented amateur photographer. It depicts women (probably members of his family) ...
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Prize-Winning Cabbage

Date: 09 28 1895
Description: Five-acre cabbage field of Martin Anderson near Grantsburg, with several frame houses in the background. Mr. Anderson is holding a prize-winning head of ca...
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Tobacco Field

Date: 08 24 1929
Description: A farmer is standing in a tobacco field, with crop ready to harvest. Farm buildings are in the background.
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Men Waving Hats in Field

Date: 07 30 1895
Description: Men, waving their hats, standing in a field of shoulder-high oats on the farm of Edward Dascam, one and one-half miles northeast of Antigo, Langlade County...
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Reaping Scene

Date: 1879
Description: Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings...
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Men with Farm Tools

Date: 1879
Description: Five men, facing away from the camera, are standing in a field. Some of them are holding a rakes and a scythe. A boy is in the foreground facing the camera...
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Farmall Super M-TA Tractor with Forage Harvester

Date: 1954
Description: Men operating a Farmall Super M-TA tractor, a forage harvester and an International R-150 truck.
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Krueger Family in Field

Date: 08 24 1907
Description: August, Tina, Sarah, Jennie, Edgar and Alex Krueger posing outdoors in a field. Alex took this photograph remotely with a string tied to the shutter of the...
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Three Grain Binders in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men with three horse-drawn grain binders in a field.
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McCormick Binders in a Field

Date: 1905
Description: Four men harvesting grain in a field with two horse-drawn McCormick binders. (D.R. Robbins?)
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Workers Inspecting Fibre at Osborne Twine Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Workers inspecting strands of fibre (fiber) in a warehouse at International Harvester's Osborne Twine Mill. The Osborne Works was owned by D.M. Osborne Com...
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Workers Loading Sisal Leaves onto Tram Car

Date: 1900
Description: Two workers loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a tram car on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The sisal or hennequen was used by the McCormick Company and...
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Foreign Scene with McCormick Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Foreign farm scene, possibly in Algiers, with farmers using a mule-drawn McCormick binder in a field. In the background is a horse-drawn carriage.
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Farmer and Farmall Tractor in Cornfield

Date: 09 15 1924
Description: View over cornfield towards a farmer driving a McCormick-Deering Farmall tractor with a sun shade.
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Farmer Using Horse-Drawn Hay Rake

Date: 1907
Description: Left side view of farmer in a field aboard horse-drawn hay rake.
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Farmers in Field Posing with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men, one on binder, and two standing, are posing with a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in field as farmhands are bundling grain in the background...
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Boy and Girl Posing with Milwaukee Binder in Field

Date: 1907
Description: Young girl and boy posing with a horse-drawn Milwaukee grain binder in a field. The boy is drinking from a jug.
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Farmers Baling Hay with IHC Hay Press

Date: 01 15 1908
Description: Three men are posing in a field while baling hay with an IHC horse-driven hay press.
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McCormick-Deering Combine

Date: 11 21 1927
Description: View of right side of a McCormick-Deering combine (harvester-thresher) pulled by a Farmall tractor in a field. A man wearing a hat is driving the tractor.

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