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International TD-6 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1940
Description: Seldon Starcher, owner and operator of an International TD-6 Diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor), uses his tractor both in logging and oil field work. Sta...
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Farm Scene

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

Cherry Orchards in Door County

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

H.W. Berry on TD-40 TracTracTor

Date: 1940
Description: View down field twoards H.W. Berry, sales promotion, on a TD-40 TracTracTor pulling a gang of rod weeders. Bert Burrell operates the 5,000 acre ranch.
Photograph

Two Men with Farmall M Tractor and No.42 Combine Threshing Alfalfa

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of two men, Grant Porter and L.M. Porter working in a field harvesting seed from 60 of 200 acres in alfalfa. 3200 acre ...
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 ...
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

St. Croix River

Date: 1940
Description: An elevated view of the St. Croix River at Interstate Park. There is a boat with open sides, probably an excursion boat, going down the river, and rock for...
Photograph

Horseback Riding

Date: 1940
Description: View towards a line of several dozen men and women, in equestrian attire and on horseback, riding single file up a hill from a large arena style building s...
Photograph

Stocking a Lake

Date: 1940
Description: A biplane is dropping fingerling fish into a Wisconsin lake. There are two small sheds on the shoreline. The caption on the reverse of the print reads: "Fi...
Photograph

Potawatomi State Park

Date: 1940
Description: A young woman smiles as she enjoys the view from the Potawatomi Tower in Potawatomi State Park. There is a house on a small island in Sawyer Harbor, with ...
Photograph

View from Gibraltar Rock

Date: 1940
Description: A view from the top of Gibraltar Rock showing a portion of the bluff, left, and rolling fields and woodlands beyond. There is a pond or stream on the right...

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