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Steam Tractor with Sod-breaking Plows

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Description: Two men are posing standing on a steam tractor on the right, probably a Linnell, attached to sod-breaking plows steered by two men on the left. Behind them...
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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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Children Working in School Garden

Date: 1913
Description: Large group of school children tending to their school garden plots.
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Farmer in Grove with O-4 Orchard Tractor

Date: 1941
Description: Farmer operating a McCormick-Deering O-4 orchard tractor and disc harrow.
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Truck Garden

Date: 08 02 1926
Description: Six men with hoes in a truck garden at Farm Colony, Wisconsin State Hospital for Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), Hwy 113.
Book or Pamphlet

IHC Pull Power Hay Press Catalog

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester. Shows pull power hay presses featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers ...
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German Farmers

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Description: German farm couple returning from the fields, crossing railroad tracks.
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International 454 Tractor

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Description: Man plowing a field with an International 454 tractor in a field in Great Britain.
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Boy and Men in Field with Rake Reaper

Date: 1873
Description: A boy and three men are in a field in the foreground with a manual rake reaper and other harvesting tools. Various farmstead buildings, a fence and Lombard...
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Halvor Nerison Hauge's Farm

Date: 1874
Description: People in a field standing around a mower, with a farmstead and windmill in background, looking west. Halvor Nerison Hauge (1830-1906) purchased the farm i...
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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...
Photograph

Eleazer William's ("Lost Dauphin") Cabin Site

Date: 1900
Description: A young girl and a woman working a field with horses. Trees and buildings are in the background.
Book or Pamphlet

Cotton King Disk Harrow Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Cotton King disk harrows sold by International Harvester. Features an illustration of a view framed by trees and a fenc...
Photograph

Cutting Weeds

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

Walking Cultivator

Date: 1910
Description: Farmer using a horse-drawn walking cultivator in field.
Photograph

Spreading Lime

Date: 10 07 1927
Description: A man operating a Farmall Regular tractor pulls a man shoveling lime from a farm wagon. In the background on the left is a barn and silo's.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Fairway 12

Date: 05 17 1934
Description: Ralph Teter, groundskeeper of the Aurora Country Club, sits on a McCormick-Deering Fairway 12 tractor.
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Indian Head Golf Club

Date: 1932
Description: A groundskeeper uses a McCormick-Deering Fairway tractor to care for the golf course at Indian Head Golf Club. A group of people are playing golf in the ba...
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Unitarian Work Campers Cleaning School Grounds

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Description: Two work campers at the Highlander Folk School cleaning the school grounds. The boy in front is using a scythe to clear brush.
Poster

McCormick 10-20 and 15-30 Tractors Advertising Poster

Date: 1938
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick 10-20 and 15-30 tractors. The poster features a color illustration of each of the tractors, and photographs of men using t...

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