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Squash Harvest

Date: 1920
Description: A woman stands amid a patch of squash plants and displays a large squash in Marinette County.
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Townspeople Improve Township Road

Date: 1920
Description: Original caption reads: "Members of Marshalltown Club at work on township road near Marshalltown, IA (1920). Over fifty members of the Club contributed a d...
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Russian Man Plowing Field with Homemade Harrow

Date: 1920
Description: Man guides a homemade harrow through a field with a horse. The original caption reads: "Primitive methods of agriculture in Russia (Volga region)."
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Carcajou Pasteur

Date: 1920
Description: View of a rocky pasture with some small, distant farm buildings, and a few farm animals grazing.
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Carcajou Farm and Grazing Cattle

Date: 1920
Description: View of grazing cattle, and pigs, in a field, with a farmhouse in the background.
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Hoard's Dairy Farm

Date: 1920
Description: View across field toward Hoard's dairy farm with silos, barns, and trees.
Postcard

Holy Hill

Date: 1920
Description: View of Holy Hill, with a field and the Hillside Hotel in the foreground. Captions read: "America's Favorite Place of Pilgrimage" and "The Holy Hill and Hi...
Postcard

Toll Bridge

Date: 1920
Description: View of two automobiles crossing a toll bridge. There are cherries on branches at the top of the postcard. Caption reads: "In Door County 'Cherryland,' The...
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College of Agriculture

Date: 1920
Description: Site of the first dairy school. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Men are working near a wagon parked in front of the building.
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Seven Ho-Chunk Men in Field

Date: 1920
Description: Outdoor group portrait of seven Ho-Chunk men standing outdoors in a cranberry bog, They are holding the hand scoops used to harvest cranberries. The long n...
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Upland Prairie Farming Country

Date: 1920
Description: Upland prairie farming country with a view of the fields.
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Man with International Friction Drive Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Man standing next to an International friction drive tractor, parked in the snow next to a farm building.
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Wisconsin Landscape

Date: 1920
Description: A view of a rolling rural landscape, most likely in Sauk County. In the far distance are houses and farm buildings, a church and a larger building, center ...
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Autumn Farm Scene

Date: 1920
Description: A small farmhouse in the Greek Revival style stands near a field with corn shocks and pumpkins. Large evergreens line the lane, and a barn is in the backgr...
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Glenn Oil Field

Date: 1920
Description: A view of rows of oil derricks and steel tanks at Glenn Pool Oil Field where oil was first discovered on November 22, 1905 by Robert Galbreath and Frank Ch...
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Oil Fields

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view of Tulsa, and its vast oil fields. Caption reads: "Oil Fields Near Tulsa, Okla."
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Oil Fields with Smoke

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view of smoke rising from the oil fields in the distance, resulting from an electrical storm.
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Close-up of P&O Plow

Date: 1920
Description: Close-up of an International Harvester P&O (Parlin and Orendorff) tractor plow in a field.
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Well-Dressed Man with a P&O Plow

Date: 1920
Description: A man wearing a hat and overcoat is standing near a P&O plow with his hand on a lever.
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Tractor Pulling P&O Plow

Date: 1920
Description: Tractor pulling a P&O plow in a field.

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