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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Dan Downey, International Harvester blockman from Philadelphia, teaches three women how to operate a Farmall M tractor and a McCormick-Deering harvester-th... |
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| Description: | Instructor Mr. Schweitzer reviewing the operation of a Farmall M tractor with a group of women. The women are (L to R): Donna Mehaffy, Oakville; Marian Hul... |
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| Description: | Mrs. Elizabeth Lancton cultivating with a Farmall H tractor on the 105 acre farm of Cliff Lee. Mrs. Lancton attended classes offered by Fred R. Walkley, pr... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a farmer hauling sacks of onions on a trailer pulled by a diesel Farmall MD tractor on the Jaskin Brothers farm. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Man testing the model 123-SP (self-propelled) combine (harvester-thresher) in a field. The machine was International Harvester's first self-propelled combi... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Farm worker dumping cotton from an International Harvester cotton picker into a trailer pulled by a Farmall M tractor. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill towards the city of Laona on the far shoreline. A large smokestack is spewing smoke. Caption reads: "Laona, Wis." |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | 16-year-old Wanda Lee Grace, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, driving her father's Farmall B tractor t... |
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| Description: | Betty Stevens, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, is riding a Farmall H tractor through J.D. Thompson's ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Chester Sowerby is sitting on a Farmall H tractor while her husband is standing in the field beside her. The original caption reads: "Mrs. Chester Sow... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A Red Cross motor corps woman sitting on a Farmall H tractor at Herbert's Hill Angus farm. The original caption reads: "Red Cross motor corps women in Paol... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Elsie L. Meyer operating a Farmall AV tractor on her father's farm. The original caption reads: "Elsie L. Meyer of Hicksville, New York, not only operates ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A woman is steering a Farmall H tractor through a farm field, while another person driving a tractor is following closely behind. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A woman operating a Farmall H tractor with an attached cultivator in a farm field. |
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| Description: | Mrs. John T. Shea, Mary Elma Riddell, and Mrs. John R. Riddell, participants in "Tractorette" class, are posing around a Farmall H tractor with J.S. Inman,... |
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| Description: | Mrs. Beulah Ogden, a participant in the "Tractorette" class organized by the Blanchard Motor Company, rides a Farmall tractor through an 88-acre farm owned... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of "Tractorette" participants are looking on as their teacher, L.J. DeMars, assistant manager of the Blanchard Motor Company in Springfield, is ins... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of Mrs. Helene George driving a Farmall A tractor as part of a "Tractorette" class organized by the Blanchard Motor Company. The cla... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a participant in International Harvester's "Tractorette" class sitting on a Farmall H tractor. The class consisted of 15 women an... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A woman uses an International Model A tractor to mow grass on the side of a hill at Camp Pendleton. In the background is an encampment of tents set up at t... |
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