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Harvesting Scene

Date: 1915
Description: Harvesting scene with groups of men, women, and boys and multiple reapers hitched to oxen. Foothills or mountains are in the background, behind a row of t...
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Horse-Drawn Corn Picker

Date: 1915
Description: Farmers with a horse-drawn corn picker.
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Deering Corn Binder

Date: 1915
Description: Demonstration for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition showing how the labor swing bundle elevator of the Deering corn binder operates.
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Grain Binder on a Hill

Date: 1915
Description: A farmer uses a McCormick grain binder on a hillside with a windmill in the background.
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Experimental Motor Grain Binder

Date: 1915
Description: A man operates an experimental motor-driven grain binder.
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Grain Binder and Mogul 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1915
Description: Two men using an experimental rig to operate a grain binder and a Mogul 8-16 tractor. Bundles of the harvested grain are stacked in the foreground.
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Mogul Tractor Pulling Hay Balers

Date: 1915
Description: An International Harvester Mogul 25 H.P. tractor pulling at least three grain binders.
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Man Using Side Delivery Rake

Date: 1915
Description: One man uses a horse-drawn side delivery hay rake, while others load hay into a large wagon.
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Men Harvesting Hay in Field

Date: 1915
Description: Three men using pitchforks to lift hay onto a wagon drawn by two horses.
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Mogul 8-16 Tractor with Grain Binder

Date: 1915
Description: Men with grain binder hitched to Mogul tractor.
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Mogul 8-16 Tractor with Hay Loader

Date: 1915
Description: Man pulling a wagon and hay loader with a Mogul 8-16 tractor. Another man stands atop the hay in the wagon.
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Mogul 8-16 Tractor and Corn Picker

Date: 1915
Description: Men with a Mogul 8-16 tractor, corn picker and horse-drawn wagon in a cornfield.
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Picking Cotton

Date: 1915
Description: Men, women, and children picking cotton in a field.
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Hauling Sisal Leaves

Date: 1915
Description: Men carrying cut sisal leaves to take to a decorticating mill (which removes the outer husk), loading them on a donkey, and tram car which is on rails.
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Man Standing with Corn Shocks

Date: 1915
Description: Farmer standing outdoors among corn shocks. He is holding a small dog in his arms, and is wearing work gloves and a hat.
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Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1915
Description: View across field towards a man using a team of three horses to pull a binder while another man is looking on nearby from the right.
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Tractor Drawn Binder

Date: 1915
Description: View across field and fence towards men using a (very early model) tractor to pull a binder. There are horses near the binder on the left, and a man is dri...
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Harvesting Operation

Date: 1915
Description: View across field towards a large harvesting operation. On the far left is a large haystack. The thresher is belt-driven by a tractor in the right foregrou...
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Horse-Drawn Harvester Thresher

Date: 1915
Description: Men are standing in a field near a horse-drawn harvester thresher.
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Horse-Drawn Wagons Loaded with Supplies

Date: 1915
Description: View across field towards a large team of horses pulling a tall wagon loaded with supplies on an unpaved road.

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