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Men with Plow

Date: 1873
Description: Group portrait of men gathered in a farmyard, posed behind two plows. The plow in front has Argyle, Wisc. from Michalson Implement Company inscribed on the...
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Halvor Nerison Hauge and Other Farmers

Date: 1874
Description: Halvor Nerison Hauge (1830-1906) had much to be proud of in 1874: an imposing brick house, modern harvesting equipment and a growing family. When Dahl publ...
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Men with Farm Tools

Date: 1879
Description: Five men, facing away from the camera, are standing in a field. Some of them are holding a rakes and a scythe. A boy is in the foreground facing the camera...
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Super A Tractor Cultivating

Date: 1949
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man on a Farmall Super A tractor following a curving line of furrows in a field with a cultivator.
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Farmall Cub Tractor in Field

Date: 1953
Description: Farmer cultivating a field with a McCormick Farmall Cub tractor. The color photograph was likely taken for advertising purposes at Hinsdale Farm, near Inte...
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Cultivating Vegetable Field with McCormick Farmall C Tractor

Date: 1949
Description: Slightly elevated view of a farmer cultivating a vegetable field with a McCormick Farmall C tractor with attached cultivator. Farm buildings are in the bac...
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German Farmers Baling Hay in Alpine Country

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Description: German farmers baling hay in southern Germany's Alpine country. The men are using an International D-214 tractor with mower and wagon. Original caption rea...
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Farmall Super H Tractor with Cultivator in Field

Date: 1953
Description: View towards a farmer in a field with a stage I McCormick Farmall Super H tractor and attached four-row cultivator. Farm buildings are in the background.
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Farmer Harvests Grain on Steep Hill with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of a farmer harvesting grain on a hill or ridge with a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder near Pittsburgh. In the background is a va...
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Farmers Unloading Corn into Barn

Date: 1941
Description: Delmer Miller is standing in a farm wagon while farm hand, Gus Setser, is shoveling corn from the back end. The wagon is hitched to a Farmall H tractor and...
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Combine Thresher and Tractor

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: A group portrait of men, women and children standing in a field, with a Nichols & Shepard combine thresher and Hart Parr tractor behind them. In the backgr...
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Tractor in Field

Date: 07 30 1927
Description: Tractor in field with Quick-on rims.
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Corn Planters and Drills

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the Kentucky line of International Harvester corn planters and drills. Cover features an illustration of a farmer...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of advertising catalog for the Deering line of IHC harvesting machines. Cover features a chromolithograph of a field scene with shocks of wheat...
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African American Farm Laborer at Stovall's Plantation

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Young man sitting in a planter drawn by two mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall.
Book or Pamphlet

Frost and Wood Agricultural Implement Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Cover of advertising catalog for the Frost and Wood Company, manufacturers of agricultural implements and harvesting machinery, Smith's Falls, Ontario, Can...
Photograph

Farmall M Tractor, 75-P Field Hay Chopper, Trailer and Truck

Date: 1950
Description: Two farmers are working in a field with a McCormick Farmall M tractor, a 75-P field hay chopper, a trailer and an International truck.
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Russian Men Threshing Grain

Date: 1910
Description: Four men threshing grain by hand while two children are watching. The location is Russia, probably near Lubertzy.
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Russian Man Plowing Field with Homemade Harrow

Date: 1920
Description: Man guides a homemade harrow through a field with a horse. The original caption reads: "Primitive methods of agriculture in Russia (Volga region)."
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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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