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Cranberry Spraying

Date: 1940
Description: Boom spraying of cranberries, in the Wisconsin Rapids area and probably by members of the Asa Bennett family. This technique using a tractor was developed ...
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Haystacks

Date: 1940
Description: Large stacks of hay or wheat.
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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 Corn Picker Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering corn pickers, featuring a photograph of a man operating a Farmall M tractor and a corn picker. Also ...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering No.4 Stalk Cutter Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering stalk cutters featuring two photographs of a stalk cutter pulled by a Farmall H tractor. Includes th...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Tractor Mower Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering tractor mowers. Features two photographs of farmers pulling mowers with Farmall tractors. Original c...
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...
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No. 61 Combine with Farmall A

Date: 1940
Description: Original caption reads: "Photographs I-2958-DD to I-2962-DD, inclusive. Fourth of Wyoming and Montana Basin combine series. See first for general descripti...
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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...
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Elmer Tompkin Driving Farmall M with No. 12 Two-Row Digger

Date: 1940
Description: View from rear of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elmer Merrill's 400-acre ...
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Elmer Tompkin Driving Farmall M with No. 12 Two-Row Digger

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elme...
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Frank Russell Driving Farmall H Tractor in Potato Field

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of Frank Russel driving a Farmall H tractor with a middlebuster to harvest potatoes.
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Man Driving Farmall M Tractor Harvesting Sugar Beets

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of a man driving a Farmall M tractor with 2-row beet puller for harvesting sugar beets in Midland, Manitoba, Canada. Wom...
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Man Driving Farmall H Tractor and Disk Harrow

Date: 1940
Description: Left side view of a man driving a Farmall H tractor with disk harrow in a field. Shocks of corn are in long rows in the field. Farm buildings are in the fa...
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Man Driving Farmall H Tractor and Disk Harrow

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a man driving a Farmall H tractor with disk harrow in a field. Shocks of corn are in rows in the field. James Clark F...
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Man Driving Farmall A Tractor

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a man driving a Farmall A tractor pulling a man sitting on a McCormick-Deering No.61 Harvester-Thresher with bagger ...
Photograph

Men with Farmall H Tractor and No. 42 Combine

Date: 1940
Description: Four men posing with a Farmall H tractor pulling a No. 42 combine in a field in the Snake River Valley. The tractor and combine were being demonstrated in ...
Photograph

Two Men Using Farmall A Tractor with No.61 Combine

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of two men working in a field with a Farmall A tractor and No. 61 combine in a field of Great Northern beans on 100-acre ...
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Group of Men with Farmall A Tractor and No.61 Combine

Date: 1940
Description: Four men are standing with a Farmall A tractor pulling a No. 61 combine in a field of Great Northern beans on 110-acre farm of Ralph Lyda. The outfit is ow...
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Two Men Using Farmall A Tractor with Combine in Field

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of two men harvesting Great Northern beans in a field in the Big Horn Basin. One man drives the Farmall A tractor, and ...

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