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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 ...
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...
Photograph

Cutting Weeds

Date: 08 1929
Description: A man using a scythe to cut weeds from a pasture of wild carrots.
Photograph

Round Barn

Date: 11 25 1961
Description: View of a round barn along Highway K. Farm equipment and another farm building are on the left. Fields and hills are in the background.
Photograph

Winnebago County Asylum Farm

Date: 1930
Description: View over fence of a man wearing a hat using a tilling tool in a garden presumably belonging to the Winnebago County Asylum farm.
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Men Planting at the Lake Nursery

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Description: Ten men are working in a field, probably planting raspberries at the Lake Nursery. Some of the men are standing watching. In the background are trees and h...
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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...
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Lynn Fontanne Working in the Garden

Date: 1946
Description: Lynn Fontanne using a hand hoe in the Ten Chimneys garden.
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McCormick-Deering 10-20 Hitched to Orchard Disk Harrow

Date: 12 21 1928
Description: Rear view of a McCormick-Deering 10-20 Hitched to Orchard Disk Harrow sitting in a field. In the background is a fence, and beyond the fence are wood build...
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Children Working in Garden at Van Vlissingen School

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Description: Children, boys and girls, are working in a garden at the school. The stone and brick school building has arched windows. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Boy in Garden with Hand Tool

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a boy standing in a garden holding a tool. Caption on slide reads: "U of C Association 'Gardening' South Deering. Lantern slide.
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Tractor Drawn Cultivator

Date: 06 31 1928
Description: Rear view of a man using a tractor to pull a cultivator through a field of vines.
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Man Working in Garden

Date: 10 1906
Description: View towards a man working in a garden. In the background are trees, and in the distance are buildings.
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Horse-Drawn New 4 Cultivator

Date: 12 12 1919
Description: Rear view of a horse-drawn cultivator with fertilizer attachments working in a field. Power lines and a fence are along the field on the right. Buildings a...

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