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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The sidewheel steam rafter "Clyde," which was the first iron hull steamboat. Sign on side of boat reads: "Dubuque, Reads Landing & Eau Claire." Agricultura... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel packet, Arkansas, loaded with gunny sacks of wheat taken between 1872 and 1878. Men are unloading barrels and gunny sacks on a gangpl... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for the Dodge's patent Reaper & Mower, Self-Raker. The cover features an engraved illustration of a woman leaning on a hor... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | McCormick Self-Rake reaper in front of a fence or wall in a factory(?) yard. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Engineering(?) photograph of a grain binder. The binder may be experimental. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of upright and wing house with adjacent windmill structure made in Batavia, Illinois, by U.S. Wind Eng. Pump Co. The barn has a stone foundation. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Men, horses and wagons on a hillside. A barn and another building are in the background. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | People in field with hay piles and traditional Norwegian Sval House (right) and salt-box house (left) with adjoining garden and farm buildings in the backg... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A family stands in front of a barn. Beside them are cattle, horses, a wagon and a manual rake reaper. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A pasture is in the foreground with a brick house, barn and connected outbuildings behind it. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Farmyard with machinery in foreground. A man stands with a team of large horses, perhaps Percherons. Two women stand on the front porch of the farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A family in a wagon, on horseback and standing in front of farmstead that has a stone fence. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A farmyard, with a windmill and boy standing on top. Included in the view is a barn, upright and wing frame house. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The Michael Johnson Engesether family is seen from across a field standing at the side of a stone house with a frame addition. The house has a small front ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Advertising brochure for the Ohio Mower and Reaper manufactured by Ephraim Ball. The advertisement features a line drawing of men using two mowers pulled b... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Lodi, Wisconsin. A field is in the foreground, and the town beyond and hills in the far background. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view across what may be the Fox River, or a field with snow on the ground. There are large buildings behind a fence in the background. Caption ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a mower and reaper catalog. Features a color illustration of a man using a mower in field, with the caption: "Mower Finger Bar Lifter Over a... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Front cover of catalog with a green cover for Wood's harvesting machines. Features an illustration of, at the top, a view of a town, flanked by two women, ... |
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