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| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the blacksmith shop at Walnut Grove farm where Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) invented and built his first reaper in 1831. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Farmer grinding corn in a barn with a belt-driven McCormick-Deering feed grinder powered by a Farmall tractor. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | The newspaper used this building from 1907 until the mid or late 1920's. A few cars are parked in front of the building. A sign for the Good Fellow House (... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Three horse-drawn fire engines are in the street with steam rising from their tanks. Other fire vehicles are to the right. Many pedestrians are on the stre... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a barn and its two attached silos. Adjacent to the barn there is a fenced-in area with two horses and a rider wearing a hat. Farm located ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Farm of Frank Johns of Hastings, Florida. Two men wearing hats are standing among stacks of filled burlap bags. There is a birdhouse on the right atop a lo... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A sign with a garland around it, and pennants on poles are hanging above a plaque at International Harvester's Breslau branch house. The sign is in German,... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A man works with a husker-shredder near a silo and barn. A wagon is parked on the right. Original caption states: "Husker and Shredder used for custom w... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Farmall Regular tractor powering a McCormick Deering No. 2 corn sheller near a barn. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Miss Lielle Geddis sitting in a rocking chair while reading an issue of "Country Gentleman" magazine in the living room of her home. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from across street of the church. It has a bell steeple, stained glass windows, double french doors with an archway, and a wall gable facade.... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Cover of a McCormick-Deering "triple-power tractors" brochure. Cover includes a banner reading "1831-1931 McCormick Reaper Centennial," and an image of the... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of International Harvester's St. Louis branch building facade, facing a commercial street. Several automobiles are parked alongside the stree... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View across yard of three people standing on the porch of the two-story Northern Lakes Hotel on Rest Lake. There is a stone chimney and brickwork around th... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View of the road and entrance to Mercer Tourist Park on Grand Portage Lake showing the fences, road and buildings. The larger building on the left has a st... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | An automobile is parked near the Melvin Larson barn in Bayfield County. The large barn has a concrete block foundation, gambrel roof, and three large venti... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Harold Calder, wearing bib overalls and a cap, poses with his calf, which won second place at the Cambridge Festival in 1931. There are chickens, a small c... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Men using horse-drawn and gasoline powered road equipment work on Highway 80 near Rockbridge. A wooded bluff rises steeply behind a farmhouse. Barns, a sil... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Vines cover trellises on two porches of the Schulz house, a large wood frame Victorian farmhouse. There is fretwork in the gables and a band of decorative ... |
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