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Farmer with Walking Planter

Date: 1925
Description: Farmer in a field walking behind a P&O planter drawn by a mule. There is an automobile on a road near a house behind a fence in the background.
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Lars Davidson Reque's Farm with Men and Boys

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Description: In this tableau, men and boys stand at the edge of the field in elaborate and fanciful poses. The man on the left holds a hoe and cake while the one on the...
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Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: Main Street with plank sidewalk and dirt road. A piece of agricultural equipment is in the foreground.
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Plows at Chattanooga Plow Works

Date: 1930
Description: Men (mostly likely employees), plows, cane mills and an evaporator are lined up on a Main Street sidewalk outside the Chattanooga Plow Works.
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Williamson Street

Date: 1918
Description: A view east from the corner of South Blair and Williamson Streets. On the left is Joe's News Store (Joseph J. Kuhn) 520 E. Wilson Street and a sign for th...
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Ottawa Farm Machinery Co.

Date: 05 03 1929
Description: Exterior of the Ottawa Farm Machinery Company, an International Harvester dealership. Agricultural equipment and machinery are visible through the storefro...
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Improved McCormick Reaper

Date: 1910
Description: A McCormick reaper rests on the grass near a rural road. The original caption reads: "Invented 1845, patented 1847. The improvement embodied in this machin...
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Four Men in Front of House with Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Man standing in yard in front of house and fence. There is a woman in the background sitting on the porch. A young man is driving a horse-drawn grain binde...
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Showroom of Fresno IH Dealership

Date: 1944
Description: Farmall A tractor and farm equipment on display in front of large show windows at Brown Tractor Company, an International Harvester dealership. Outside man...
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Wyoming IH Dealership

Date: 1944
Description: Exterior view from across road of the storefront of an International Harvester agricultural equipment dealership with a fenced-off side yard. Advertisement...
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Grain Cutting

Date: 1944
Description: Richard and Ralph Quinney, posing for a photo with their father, Floyd Quinney with corn knives and a scythe.
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International Model M Truck Outside Implement Dealership

Date: 1915
Description: View across the road of three men and an International Model M truck outside the A.H. Bentz farm equipment dealership. A sign on the building advertises ga...
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Spreading Lime in Alfalfa Field

Date: 09 1929
Description: View from rear of a man using a Farmall tractor and a McCormick-Deering lime sower to fertilize an alfalfa field at International Harvester's Hinsdale expe...
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"One-Mule Agriculture Method"

Date: 1914
Description: A group of farmers use mules to plow a field near a dirt road. A farm building and electrical or telephone poles are in the background.
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Horse-Drawn Wagon

Date: 03 1926
Description: A wagon hitched to two horses is standing alongside a dirt road as a man uses a hoe or shovel in the field to the left.
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Men with Big 4 Mowers

Date: 1900
Description: Two men are leading horses in pulling McCormick Big 4 mowers near a brick farmhouse. A girl wearing a dress and hat is sitting on a horse in the foreground...
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McCormick-Deering Mower

Date: 03 09 1933
Description: Front view of a McCormick-Deering mower on dirt road with decal below seat.
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Men with Cub Cadets

Date: 1961
Description: Elevated view of men, possibly dealers or buyers, sitting on and gathered near International Harvester Cub Cadet lawn tractors. The machines were manufactu...
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IH Kansas City Branch House

Date: 1925
Description: Train cars rest on tracks leading past International Harvester's Kansas City branch. Farm equipment stands on loading dock on the side of the building, and...
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Men working in field during Wisconsin cranberry harvest. Crates are stacked up throughout the field.

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