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Workers in newly Sprouted Grain Field

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Description: Farm workers are in a newly sprouted grain field with a harvest rake and a grain cradle. A man wearing a suit and hat is standing on the left watching the ...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thresher

Date: 07 22 1926
Description: Side view of a McCormick-Deering harvester-thresher (combine). A group of men are standing behind the machine; and decals and/or stencils are on the side o...
Photograph

Boys Ready for Day in the Field

Date: 1911
Description: Group of boys outdoors with gardener E.E. Harris. Original caption reads: "Boys of the Onalaska Agricultural School, with rakes and forks, saws and other i...
Photograph

Harvesting Hay with Hay Stacker

Date: 1895
Description: Outdoor group portrait of men harvesting hay. Two men are standing on top of a haystack with pitchforks filled with hay. A wooden counter-weighted hay stac...
Photograph

Plowing at 96th and Muskegon

Date: 1919
Description: Three men in a field working on an International 8-16 tractor. One of the men is dressed in a suit. There are houses in the background.
Print

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

Grain Stacks

Date: 09 09 1895
Description: View across field of two men leaning against an enormous stack of grain on the farm of August Schmidt. There are many more stacks of grain leading into the...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 498-506

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Description: Cranberry growing has been and is one of the most profitable and picturesque branches of agriculture in Wisconsin. In the 1860's and 1870's, land previousl...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering 15-30 in New Zealand

Date: 07 23 1928
Description: A McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor in a New Zealand field. Five men stand in a field gathered around bushels of wheat, and one man drives a tractor pulling ...
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Harvesting Machinery

Date: 1883
Description: Inside spread of 4-page brochure featuring illustrations accompanying blocks of text explaining the features of Champion machines. The top left shows a man...
Photograph

Group of Men with Mowers and Rakes

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of men working in a field. A man in the center is wearing a suit and hat. Two men are using horse-drawn mowers, and anoth...
Photograph

Men in Field with Horse-Drawn Mowers

Date: 1900
Description: Two men using horse-drawn mowers in a field. A man wearing a suit is standing on the left. A man is standing behind the mower on the right holding a scythe...
Photograph

Men with Self Tying Hay Press in Field

Date: 09 11 1917
Description: Three men are working with a self tying hay press. There is a haystack in the background. A man wearing a suit is standing and watching near a stack of hay...
Photograph

Four Men Posing with Tractor Hitched to Disc Harrow

Date: 08 04 1921
Description: Group portrait of four men standing between a disc harrow and a tractor in a field. The disc harrow is in the foreground, and the tractor is behind them. T...
Photograph

Spring Ground Preparation

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: A group of men are posing in front of a man sitting on a Farmall tractor.
Photograph

Man with Horse-Drawn Mower

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Description: A man is working in a field with a horse-drawn mower. Three other men are standing and watching in the background on the left. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
Photograph

Spring Ground Preparation

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: A man wearing a suit is standing next to a man driving a Farmall tractor in a field. A cultivator is attached to the tractor.
Photograph

Six Horse-Drawn Binders in Field

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Description: A large group of men are in a field with a long line of horse-drawn binders.

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