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Farmall F-20 Tractor and Combine on Rural Highway

Date: 07 03 1934
Description: Farmer driving a McCormick-Deering Farmall F-20 tractor and combine (harvester-thresher) on a rural highway. The tractor and combine were equipped with Fir...
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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 Field Demonstration

Date: 1942
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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"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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Children at Work and Play in Schoolyard

Date: 1917
Description: Boys working in a garden while smaller children dance in a circle on the grounds of Middlefield No. 2 Consolidated School in Ostego County. Teachers are lo...
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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...
Book or Pamphlet

Drain the Wet Land

Date: 04 15 1930
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. The cover shows a man standing near a drainage ditch. The bookl...
Photograph

"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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"Tractorette" Student

Date: 1942
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...
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Aerial View of Agricultural Buildings

Date: 1910
Description: Aerial View of University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture. Lake Mendota with Picnic Point is in the background.
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Aerial View of University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

Date: 1908
Description: Aerial View of University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture. Lake Mendota with Picnic Point is in the background.
Photograph

Aerial View of University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

Date: 1900
Description: Aerial View of University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture. Lake Mendota with Picnic Point is in the background.
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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...
Print

Soil and Moisture Conservation in the Western Plains Area

Date: 1939
Description: Cover of a brochure titled "Soil and Moisture Conservation in the Western Plains Area." Includes the text: "Stop runoff, Reduce Erosion and Evaporation."
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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...
Photograph

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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Arville Schaleben and Prof. Goodman

Date: 1935
Description: Arville Schaleben and Prof. Alpheus Mansfield Goodman talking in front of tent. Arville is holding a camera on his left arm.

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