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Beauty Queen Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1947
Description: A young woman dressed in a bathing suit and wading boots poses for a promotional photograph for the Wisconsin cranberry industry at Thunder Lake Marsh. Tw...
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M-11-H Cotton Picker

Date: 1947
Description: Man operating a McCormick-Deering M-11-H cotton picker in a cotton field.
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Man with Milk Cans on Cart

Date: 1947
Description: A man pushes a wheeled cart loaded with six milk cans past buildings on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. The original caption reads: "...
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Man Weighing Milk

Date: 1947
Description: A man writes information on a chart as he weighs a can of milk in a barn. A row of cows standing in stalls is behind him. The man may be working at Interna...
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Man Feeding Cows

Date: 1947
Description: A man takes bales of hay from a wheeled cart and places them in a wooden livestock feeder. Farm buildings and a herd of cows are behind the man.
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Man Feeding Cows

Date: 1947
Description: A man fills troughs with silage for a herd of cows at a farm. The text on the wheeled container holding the feed reads: "McCormick-Deering."
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Building Farmer-Labor Solidarity

Date: 1947
Description: Booth sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers Union Local 46 at the Black Hawk County Fair. The booth included a special exhibit that illustrated how both...
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Hay Mowing

Date: 1947
Description: Young Ralph Quinney driving a horse-drawn hay-mower on his family's farm.
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Corn Cultivation

Date: 1947
Description: Yound Richard Quinney operating a tractor to cultivate corn.
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McCormick-Deering M-11-H Cotton Picker

Date: 1947
Description: Man operating a McCormick-Deering M-11-H cotton picker in field. Decals and/or stencils are on the machine. The picker is mounted on a Farmall tractor.
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McCormick-Deering M-11-H Cotton Picker

Date: 1947
Description: Left side view of a man driving a McCormick-Deering cotton picker M-11-H in a field. Decals and/or stencils are on the machine. The picker is mounted on a ...
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Farmall H with Soil Pulverizers

Date: 1947
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man driving a Farmall H with soil pulverizers, with grass seeding attachment and seed box. Farm of Tom Stolen, Route...
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Farmall M with 9A Disk

Date: 1947
Description: Rear view of man driving a Farmall M tractor with a 9A disk in a field. Owned by Zora Tackett.
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Farmall M with 6-Section Peg-Tooth Harrow

Date: 1947
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of a man driving a Farmall M with wide front axle, dual tires, 6-section peg-tooth harrow for better traction in gumbo l...
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Farmall H Tractor with No. 5 Peg-Tooth Harrow

Date: 1947
Description: Three-quarter view from left front of a Farmall H tractor with No. 5 peg-tooth harrow preparing ground for oats on the farm of Ed Gentt. Farm buildings are...
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Farmall H Tractor with 14P Corn Picker

Date: 1947
Description: Elevated view from front of a man driving a Farmall H tractor with a 14P corn picker in a cornfield. A light dusting of snow is in the field.
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Farmall H Tractor with 24P Corn Picker

Date: 1947
Description: Elevated view from front of a man driving a Farmall H tractor with a 24P corn picker in a cornfield.
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Wayne Harrington Driving Farmall M to Harvest Beets

Date: 1947
Description: View from front of Wayne Harrington driving a Farmall M to pull an HM-1 1947 model International Harvester sugar beet harvester in a field. Two men are sta...
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Man Using Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1947
Description: Elevated view looking down at a man using a Farmall Cub tractor to belt-drive a corn sheller. The man is inside the open doorway of a farm building bent ov...
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No.30 Corn Sheller with Farmall B Tractor and Power Take Off

Date: 1947
Description: Farmall B tractor parked just outside an open-sided farm building. The tractor is powering a corn sheller inside the barn, where a man is standing and shov...

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