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Farmall 300 Tractor with McCormick Baler

Date: 1955
Description: Color photograph of two men operating a Farmall 300 tractor and a McCormick baler in a field.
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At Grandfather's House

Date: 1955
Description: A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs.
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Two-Row Mounted Corn Picker on Farmall 400 Tractor

Date: 1955
Description: View of a man picking corn with a two-row corn picker mounted on a Farmall 400 tractor.
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Farmall 400 Tractor with Disk pPlow

Date: 1955
Description: Color photograph of a man plowing a field with a McCormick Farmall 400 tractor and attached disk plow.
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34HM-120 Cotton Picker

Date: 1955
Description: Man operating a 34HM-120 cotton picker mounted on a Farmall 400 tractor in a cotton field.
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St. Cloud Combine Promotion

Date: 1955
Description: Tour of International Harvester's East Moline Works (factory) for the St. Cloud combine promotion. Original caption reads: "There are hundreds of inspectio...
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International Farmall 300 Assembly Line

Date: 1955
Description: Factory workers making Farmall 300 tractors on an assembly line at International Harvester's Farmall Works.
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International S-110 Light Duty Pickup Truck

Date: 1955
Description: View of a truck driver at a loading dock with an International S-110 light duty pickup truck with panels. The truck was owned and operated by Parkway Deliv...
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Striking Sugar Workers

Date: 1955
Description: Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u...
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Sporting Goods Strike

Date: 1955
Description: Employees of the Wilson Sporting Goods Company in suburban Chicago are Bob Pickles and Ed Cronk. The men were representing the United Packinghouse Workers ...
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State Patrol Field Headquarters

Date: 1955
Description: State patrol officers line up beside their patrol cars at Old District 1 State Patrol Field Headquarters on Highway 12. They appear to be receiving instruc...
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Coonskin Haircut

Date: 1955
Description: Composite photograph of a boy and his barber. The front view shows the boy holding a coonskin cap popularized at the time by the Davy Crockett television p...
Book or Pamphlet

Annual Report

Date: 1955
Description: Front cover of the International Harvester Company's annual report, featuring a color photograph of a man operating a Farmall 400 tractor in a field. Farm ...
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Louie Suttner

Date: 1955
Description: Louie Suttner inspecting the wheat crop at his farm, the current site of the Fox River Mall.
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Mr. Beat in his Store

Date: 1955
Description: Mr. Beat in his store.
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Baling Hay

Date: 1955
Description: Left side view of man driving a John Deere tractor pulling a square baler attached to a wagon. Robert Krueger stands on the wagon behind the baler, stackin...
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Commodore Heggestad with "Monona-Mobile"

Date: 1955
Description: View from pier of John "Commodore" Heggestad of Department 40 of Gisholt proudly standing on the pontoon of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon boat) on which his...
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Muir Locust

Date: 1955
Description: Workers strain to move a heavy limb which has been cut from the large black locust tree which grew along Observatory Drive on the University of Wisconsin c...
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Junior Showmen

Date: 1955
Description: A young boy leads his calf during the cattle judging at the Walworth County Fair. Sunlight is streaming through the doors and windows, back lighting the fi...
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Vanishing Ways

Date: 1955
Description: A blacksmith working at his forge. He is wearing a leather apron to protect his clothes from the heat.

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