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Farmers Baling Hay with IHC Hay Press

Date: 01 15 1908
Description: Three men are posing in a field while baling hay with an IHC horse-driven hay press.
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Oliver Chilled Plow Works Advertisement

Date: 1883
Description: Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f...
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Terrace Plowing Demonstration

Date: 09 27 1945
Description: Art Giese, Loganville, and state soil conservation committee members, Ben Rusy, Madison; M.H. Ward, Durand; and Paul Weis, Waunakee, inspecting a two-way p...
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La Crosse Tractor Plowing on Hilly Field

Date: 
Description: Man driving a La Crosse Happy Farmer tractor plowing in field up a hill with several men in long coats, suits, and hats watching nearby.
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Testing a Corn Shocker

Date: 1915
Description: Two men using a team of two horses to pull a corn shocker through a farm field. Both men are wearing hats, and one of the men is wearing a long overcoat an...
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Mowing Machine

Date: 06 1927
Description: A mowing machine with its cutter raised is resting near the entrance to a barn as a man is walking nearby while carrying a metal bucket. The photograph was...
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Cranberry Growers

Date: 10 1984
Description: Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Corn Planter Brochure

Date: 1939
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering corn planters featuring photos of seeding disks and the with the text: "Planters for the Corn Belt."...
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Rock Island CTX Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Interior spread of a pamphlet advertising the Rock Island "CTX" tractor plow. The advertisement features an illustration of a male farmer using a Heider tr...
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Tractor Tilling Newsletter

Date: 07 1917
Description: Cover of the Volume 1, Number 2 issue of Tractor Tilling newsletter, produced by the Smith Form-a-Tractor Company. The cover features a photograph o...
Photograph

Men Pushing Binder Across Field

Date: 1900
Description: View from rear of six men pulling a binder across a field. A man is standing on the back of the binder holding a whip in one hand. Other men are standing a...
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Farmall H Pulling a Seaman Tiller in a Field of Muckland

Date: 1946
Description: Three-quarter rear view from left side of a man driving a Farmall H pulling a Seaman tiller on the big Zellwood Farms.
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Man with Experimental Farmall Cub Pulling Disk-Harrow

Date: 1948
Description: View across field towards a man using an experimental Farmall Cub pulling a four-foot tandem disk-harrow on a farm.
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Man Driving Farmall A Tractor with Mounted Planter Fertilizer

Date: 1947
Description: Right side view of man driving a Farmall A tractor with mounted planter fertilizer in a field.
Photograph

Man on Tractor Pulling Disk Harrow

Date: 10 31 1917
Description: Left side profile view of a man driving a tractor pulling a disk harrow in a field. In the background is a silo, barn, windmill and farmhouse.
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Man Driving Titan 10-20 Tractor Pulling Corn Planter

Date: 1918
Description: View from rear of a man driving a Titan 10-20 tractor pulling a corn planter in a field.
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Man Driving Six Horses to Pull Planter

Date: 1920
Description: Rear view of a man driving a team of six horses to pull a planter in a field.
Photograph

Spring Ground Preparation

Date: 07 15 1929
Description: Rear view of a man pulling a McCormick-Deering Power Lift disk harrow in a field.
Photograph

Spring Field Preparation

Date: 07 15 1929
Description: Rear view of a man driving a tractor pulling a disk harrow in a field. Farm buildings are in the background on the right.
Photograph

Spring Field Preparation

Date: 07 15 1929
Description: Rear view of a man driving a tractor pulling a disk harrow in a field.

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