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Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1886
Description: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company annual catalog cover featuring an illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat. Below the text reads: "Harvesting...
Photograph

Farm Family with Implements

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Description: A stonecutter, a cooper or smith (identified by the tools of their trade) and a girl with a pail are standing on the left in contrast to a group of ladies ...
Photograph

African American Woman at Work in McCormick Works' Community Garden

Date: 07 1932
Description: African American woman tending to her plot in the McCormick Works' garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Harves...
Photograph

Woman and Girls in McCormick Works' Community Garden

Date: 08 1932
Description: Mother and her two daughters at work in the McCormick Works community garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Har...
Photograph

Family Scything in a Field

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Description: Three men scythe a field, possibly of wheat. Behind the men there are three children and a woman standing in a row.
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Teachers Constructing Germination Box

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers working outdoors using tools to construct a sawdust germination box for corn.
Photograph

Longfellow School Greenhouse

Date: 04 21 1953
Description: Five kindergarteners at Longfellow school preparing plants for the school's greenhouse.
Photograph

Women Gardening

Date: 1920
Description: Group portrait of women wearing wide-brimmed hats standing outdoors while holding hoes and a garden plow in what appears to be a city garden. Several build...
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest Party

Date: 1885
Description: Large group of cranberry harvesters posing with implements. Many of the individuals are wearing boutonnières and corsages made from cranberry sprigs. Many ...
Photograph

Pea Viner

Date: 1924
Description: A group of farmers, including women and children, pose in front of a pea processing plant.
Postcard

Hops Farming

Date: 1908
Description: Hops farming, most likely in California. Pictured among the large plants and trellises are farm workers, both children and adults. Caption reads: "Hop Pick...
Photograph

Group of People in Front of Frame House and Farm Buildings

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Description: A group of people are posing om the yard in front of a house. A man on the left is wearing a hat and overalls and is displaying a horse. Next to him are st...
Photograph

Strawberry Picking at Lake Nursery

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Description: Man showing a carton of strawberries under an awning, while behind him men, women, and children are gathered in a field to pick strawberries, probably at t...
Photograph

Peasant Plowing with Horse

Date: 1918
Description: A peasant farmer plowing a field with the plow harnessed to a horse. The farmer's daughter is wearing a light-colored patterned dress and stands on the lef...
Photograph

Man and Grandsons Standing in a Field

Date: 1880
Description: Albert Ludley Tuttle of Baraboo, standing with his grandchildren and grown sons with farm equipment and horses in a field of young trees. In the field in t...
Book or Pamphlet

Walter A. Wood Catalog Cover

Date: 1870
Description: Front cover of catalog with a green cover for Wood's harvesting machines. Features an illustration of, at the top, a view of a town, flanked by two women, ...
Photograph

Turvill House and Garden

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the Turvill house and garden. A man and woman are working in the garden near the Turvill home. The woman, wearing a bonnet, is bent over w...
Photograph

Lynn Fontanne Working in the Garden

Date: 1946
Description: Lynn Fontanne using a hand hoe in the Ten Chimneys garden.
Photograph

French Woman in Her Vineyard

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Outdoor portrait of a woman standing in front of her vineyard. Caption reads: "A chic French Heart-breaker, snapped posing in her vineyard. Near Vaux Varen...
Photograph

Horse-Powered Cane Mill

Date: 1919
Description: Horse-powered cane mill. There are people standing near a building in the background. A man is working near the mill in the foreground.

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