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Non-Treated Oats Sign

Date: 1915
Description: A sign on a fence declaring that the farm's oats were left untreated for smut. The sign reads: "The oats on this farm were not treated for smut. The loss e...
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Horse-Drawn Milwaukee Grain Binder

Date: 1915
Description: Two men and a child, all wearing hats, are at the back of a Milwaukee grain binder. One man is standing with a cradle in his hands. An older man with a bea...
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Crew with Husker and Shredder

Date: 1915
Description: Six men are standing by a husker-shredder, wagon, and two horses in a farm yard. A tractor, possibly a Mogul 8-16 is on the right. Barns and farm buildings...
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Man Filling Silo

Date: 1915
Description: A man is using a belt-driven silo filler powered by a Titan 15-30 or 12-24(?) tractor.
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Country Road

Date: 1915
Description: Low perspective of a dirt country road curving into the distance. The road is bordered by fields and scattered wooden buildings while a solitary figure ap...
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Poultry House

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior view of a chicken coop, or poultry house made of wood and wire.
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Brood Coops on Poultry Farm

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of chickens standing around multiple brood coops on a poultry farm. A farmhouse and other farm buildings are in the background.
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Farm Buildings

Date: 1915
Description: View of a barn, shed, and fence, used to illustrate places where mites and lice might breed.
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Clifford Anderson with Leghorn Chickens

Date: 1915
Description: Clifford Anderson sits in a barnyard among his flock of white Leghorn chickens.
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Herd of Cattle in Barnyard

Date: 1915
Description: A herd of what appear to be Holstein cows stands in a barnyard near several barns and farm buildings.
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Farm Equipment in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: A cultivator sitting in the snow near a fence, illustrating the hazards of improper equipment housing. A herd of cows is in the background near a barn and ...
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Mower in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: A sickle bar mower is sitting in snow beside a wire fence, illustrating the hazards of improper equipment housing. A barn and other farm buildings are in t...
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Farm Equipment in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: A walking plow resting on its side is on snow-covered ground beside a wire fence. The photograph was probably taken to illustrate the hazards of improper e...
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Building Concrete Curb of Silo

Date: 1915
Description: View of the construction of the concrete curbs of pit silo, including a wooden form. On the left is a young girl looking out from behind a fence. In the fa...
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Man Films Workers on Farm

Date: 1915
Description: A man uses a camera mounted on a tripod to film another man and two boys near a farm building. The man and boys appear to be constructing a silo. Two horse...
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Picking Cotton

Date: 1915
Description: Men, women, and children picking cotton in a field.
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Calves Feeding out of Bucket

Date: 1915
Description: Two calves eat out of a wooden bucket near a fence. Farm buildings and an automobile are in the background.
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Demonstration Farm Feed Lot

Date: 1915
Description: Cattle graze in a feed lot at an International Harvester demonstration farm. Snow lies on the ground and a farmhouse, barn, and other buildings appear in t...
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Laundry Line

Date: 1915
Description: Clothing hanging on a line to dry in a farm yard. A pot of steaming water is in the foreground. A small open-sided farm building is behind a fence with a g...
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Boy with Pail

Date: 1915
Description: A boy wearing overalls and a straw hat is carrying a metal pail across a barnyard.

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