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Soil and Crop Improvement Association

Date: 1918
Description: A man is leaning on the passenger side of an automobile marked: "Kankakee County Soil and Crop Improvement Association." Another man is sitting inside. The...
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Agricultural Extension Agent in Surrey

Date: 01 27 1932
Description: Miss Zella Wigent, International Harvester extension agent, travels across a dirt road in the back of a surrey from Florence, Alabama to present a talk in ...
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National 4-H Club Contest Flyer

Date: 1935
Description: Advertising flyer promoting the National 4-H Club Farm Accounting Contest. The flyer describes prizes provided by International Harvester Company, and incl...
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Classroom Presentation on Flies

Date: 1915
Description: A group of students and a teacher are sitting at desks in a classroom while listening to a lesson on the dangers of house flies. Agricultural lecture chart...
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Lesson on Flies in Classroom

Date: 1915
Description: A student is using a pointer to direct the attention of seated students toward a poster labeled "Life Cycle of a Fly" during a lesson on the dangers of hou...
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Dairy Barn

Date: 1905
Description: The dairy barn on the agriculture campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Horse Barn

Date: 1905
Description: The horse barn on the agriculture campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There is a central tower and half-timbering on the gable end of the upper ...
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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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Hybrid Seed Corn Brochure

Date: 1939
Description: Cover of a brochure on hybrid seed corn with the text: "Hybrid Seed Corn - What it is and how to Plant it."
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International Students Attend the University of Wisconsin

Date: 07 27 1954
Description: International students attend the University of Wisconsin. Pictured is Ali Ahmed Attiga of Missurata, Libya who studies full time at the University. He is ...
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Farm Hazard: Woodburning Stove

Date: 1926
Description: Old, wood-burning stove whose bottom is flush with the floor. This photo was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to illus...
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Farm Hazard: Boy Dumping Ashes

Date: 1926
Description: A boy dumping ashes against the side of a house. This photo was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to illustrate potenti...
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Farms Hazards: Children on Machinery

Date: 1926
Description: A child on a Farmall tractor. The original caption warns of the danger of children "fooling with levers on running machinery." This photo was taken for Int...
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Hanging Up the Corn

Date: 1914
Description: A man is hanging up strings of corn to demonstrate corn testing in front of a group of children (students?).
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Inspecting Corn

Date: 1919
Description: Men and women are seated at tables inspecting corn, most likely as part of an instructional session organized by the IH Agricultural Extension. There is a ...
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Students Returning to School with Corn

Date: 1919
Description: Small class of students and their teacher carrying sacks full of corn. Original caption reads: "Returning with trophies, Elm Grove School." The writing on ...
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Professor Laurence F. Graber

Date: 12 01 1955
Description: University of Wisconsin Agronomy Professor Laurence F. Graber posing in front of shelves of agronomy books in his office library.
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Governor Scott McCallum

Date: 1976
Description: "Wisconsin Governor, Scott McCallum, was photographed at a Dairy Convention."
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Grain Binder

Date: 07 1994
Description: "Grain Binder Demonstration."
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Annual Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 05 1957
Description: Portrait of Albert Asp of Spring Brook, one of the many Wisconsin farmers who attended the University of Wisconsin's annual Farm and Home Week.

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