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Loading Sacks with Farmall A Tractor and Wagon

Date: 1940
Description: Farm manager R.M. Hawse standing in a Weber Wagon loaded with bags. The wagon is hitched to a Farmall A tractor. The bags are labeled "concrete cement" but...
Photograph

Turkey Farm

Date: 1940
Description: A farmer standing near a tractor amidst turkeys at Reif Turkey Farm. The original caption reads: "Mr. Glenn Reif uses Farmall H for general farm work, belt...
Photograph

Farm Scene

Date: 1940
Description: Farmhouse with several barns, a silo, and a windmill surrounded by fields and a bright, cloud strewn sky.
Photograph

Farmall M with Number 8 Bottom Plow

Date: 1940
Description: Rear view of a man using a McCormick-Deering Farmall M tractor with a Number 8 bottom plow to do field work on a hillside. Farm buildings are in the backgr...
Photograph

Wm. Harris Estate Truck

Date: 1940
Description: Two men handle bags near a barn. One of the men is standing on a wooden ramp leading up to the open barn door, the other is standing in the back of an Inte...
Photograph

Iowa Farm

Date: 1940
Description: The William Langenbaw farm, viewed against a cloud-filled sky.
Photograph

Man Milking Cows

Date: 1940
Description: Roger Thomas uses a McCormick-Deering milker on a Holstein cow at the Lee Thomas farm.
Photograph

Man Weighing Milk

Date: 1940
Description: A man inside a building uses a hanging scale to weigh a can of milk. He writes the weight on a chart hanging adjacent to the scale.
Photograph

Young Boy Driving Farmall B Tractor with Disk Harrow

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a 10-year-old boy, Wilmer Nissley, driving a Farmall B tractor with a disk harrow attachment. He is driving his fathe...
Photograph

Hammer and Roughage Mills Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for "McCormick-Deering Hammer and Roughage Mills / Corn Shellers, Feed grinders." Includes a photograph of a field with co...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Tillage Tools

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for tillage tools, featuring a photo of a man in a field with a Farmall M tractor and a disk harrow. Also includes the text...
Print

International D-2 and D-3 Truck Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for International D-2 and D-3 trucks. Original caption reads: "International Models D-2 and D-3 for economical light deliv...
Photograph

International D-30 Truck at Lumber Mill

Date: 1940
Description: Lumber is loaded onto the bed of an International D-30 truck parked at a lumber mill. A team of oxen pulling a load of timber stands near piles of cut lumb...
Print

Plowshares Are Swords

Date: 1940
Description: Flyer promoting International Harvester's war work, featuring a color illustration of a man dressed in overalls and his Farmall tractor. In the background ...
Photograph

Construction Crew on Silo

Date: 1940
Description: Construction crew on Kastenmeier farm. They are standing at the top of a silo they are building. A barn is on the left and a shed is on the right. Names fr...
Photograph

Sport, the Family Dog

Date: 1940
Description: Sport, the family dog, sitting in the middle of the driveway. In the background is a car parked next to a garage or farm building, with a stack of lumber i...
Postcard

Cherry Orchards in Door County

Date: 1940
Description: Color enhanced aerial postcard view of cherry orchards in Door County.
Photograph

Farmall M with a Dyrr Off-Set Disk Harrow

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of Raymond Ritter of Amity, Oregon, on a Farmall M with a Dyrr off-set disk harrow in 40-acre field covered with straw f...
Photograph

Clayton Nissley, Jr. with Two Men and Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1940
Description: Clayton Nissley, Jr. sits on a Farmall B tractor. Standing next to him, left to right, are R.C. Northamer, sales promotion, general line, Harrisburg; and J...
Photograph

Amos Shelby, Jr. on Farmall A Tractor

Date: 1940
Description: Amos Shelby, Jr. sitting on a Farmall A tractor on his father's 80-acre farm near Manheim. He is talking with J.B. Hostetter, of Mount Joy, International H...

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