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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1950
Description: A group of cranberry harvesters at work.
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Farmall H Tractor and Manure Spreader

Date: 1950
Description: Farmer spreading manure in a field with a Farmall H tractor and manure spreader (possibly a model 100).
Poster

International "Mid-Century Promotion" Advertising Poster

Date: 1950
Description: Advertising poster for International Harvester's "mid-century promotion" featuring a line drawing of a white Farmall C demonstrator tractor. Includes the t...
Poster

IH "Milker Service Day" Advertising Poster

Date: 1950
Description: Advertising poster promoting "Milker Service Day" at International Harvester dealerships. Includes the text: "Our trained milker service men will adjust an...
Photograph

Grinding Corn with a Farmall C Tractor

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a farmer standing at an open barn door pouring corn into a belt-driven McCormick hammer mill powered by a Farmall C tractor.
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Cutting the Cheese

Date: 1950
Description: Wisconsin Department of Agriculture workers cut large blocks of Swiss cheese.
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Pharmacist

Date: 1950
Description: A pharmacist working in the lab area of a pharmacy.
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Weather Radar

Date: 1950
Description: Meteorologists using radar equipment outdoors.
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Threshing Grain

Date: 1950
Description: A stationary McCormick-Deering thresher in action at the E.J. Shuster Farm.
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Unitarian Church's Work Day

Date: 1950
Description: People gather around a table of food for the First Unitarian Society's "Work Day". The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and some of the construc...
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James Melton on Plant Tour

Date: 1950
Description: "Harvest of Stars" radio and stage personality James "Jimmie" Melton talking with African American workers during a tour of an International Harvester's In...
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Stoking the Fire

Date: 1950
Description: A man in work clothes gets ready to shove a log into the fire chamber of a boiler.
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Visiting a Lead Mine

Date: 1950
Description: Students from Platteville, Wisconsin tour a mine to see how lead is extracted.
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McCormick Farmall H Tractor with Manure Spreader

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man pulling a McCormick No. 200 manure spreader with a McCormick Farmall H tractor. Photograph was taken at or near the compan...
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McCormick Farmall Tractor H with a 14-P Pull-Type Corn Picker

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man picking corn with a McCormick Farmall H tractor, a McCormick 14-P pull-type corn picker and a wagon. The photograph was tak...
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McCormick Farmall H tractor with McCormick Plow

Date: 1950
Description: Man plowing a field with a McCormick Farmall H tractor and McCormick plow, at or near the company's experimental farm in Hinsdale, Illinois.
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McCormick Farmall Tractor H and Grain Drill

Date: 1950
Description: Farmers are unloading bags of seed from the back of an International L-series pickup truck in a field. A McCormick Farmall H tractor with attached grain dr...
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McCormick Farmall H Tractor and Plow

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man in a field operating a McCormick Farmall H tractor with attached plow, either at or near the company's experimental farm in Hinsdale.
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McCormick Farmall H Tractor with Mounted Cultivator

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man in a field operating a McCormick Farmall H tractor with a mounted cultivator. A barn with "Hinsdale Farms" painted on the f...
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McCormick Farmall C Tractor with Fronted-Mounted Cultivator

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man in a field operating a McCormick C Tractor with a front-mounted cultivator. The color photograph was taken either at or near the company...

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