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Women Engaged in "Tractorette" Training

Date: 1942
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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"Tractorette" Operating Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
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...
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Land Clearing Train

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Description: View across field towards the Land Clearing Special Train, a program sponsored by the University of Wisconsin's Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Depa...
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"Tractorette" Group on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
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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Aerial View of Agricultural Buildings

Date: 1946
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on isthmus, including the Agricultural campus and men's dormitories. Part of Lake Mendota is in the top right corner...
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Mrs. John T. Shea, Tractorette

Date: 1942
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a woman on a Farmall H tractor in a field. Caption: "A very successful tractorette class of twenty women was organize...
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Mrs. John T. Shea, Tractorette

Date: 1942
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a woman on a Farmall H tractor in a field. Caption on accompany photograph: "A very successful tractorette class of t...
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University of Wisconsin — Agriculture Campus

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Description: Exterior view from west of University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture on a hill on campus. Trees and a sidewalk run along the road on the right...

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