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Farm Equipment in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: A plow is sitting in the snow in front of farm buildings and a woodpile. The photograph was likely taken to illustrate the hazards of improper equipment st...
Photograph

Farm Implements in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: Several farm implements, including a grain binder and mower, sitting in a barnyard covered with snow. A shed, farmhouse, and woodpile are in the background...
Photograph

Cleaning Cow Barn

Date: 12 11 1983
Description: Delmer Staus of Waukesha County shoveling contents of one of his cow barns into a manure spreader.
Photograph

Crowd at Farm Sale

Date: 01 1924
Description: Large crowd gathered at a sale on the farm of Bert Dunbar. Harrows and other farm implements are on the snow-covered ground. Several automobiles are in the...
Photograph

Farm Equipment in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: Farm equipment, including a grain binder and mower, are lying in the snow outside a farmhouse. In the background on the right two children are standing nea...
Photograph

Farm Equipment in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: A horse-drawn mower lying in snow near a wire fence. A barn and several other farm buildings are in the background beyond a field. A wooden crate stands be...
Photograph

Farm Implement used in Cranberry Fields

Date: 
Description: Newell Jasperson of the Whittlesey Cranberry Company with machinery used in cranberry fields. There is snow on the ground, and behind him is a parked autom...
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1983
Description: Man with cranberry rake harvesting berries on flooded marsh.
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Men Moving Field Harvesters at McCormick Works

Date: 1959
Description: Elevated view of a factory worker using a forklift on a loading dock to move a field harvester on a pallet at International Harvester's McCormick Works. An...
Photograph

Zimmel Implement

Date: 02 1978
Description: "Zimmel Implement has been located at 202 Mayville Street since 1946. They previously spent 11 years at 113 North Milwaukee, the building now occupied by ...
Book or Pamphlet

Craig Tractor Pamphlet

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising Craig tractors. The cover features an illustration of a farmer using a Craig tractor to complete field work with a tr...
Photograph

Kemp's 20th Century Manure Spreader

Date: 01 1907
Description: A Kemp's Manure Spreader is sits on a snow-covered loading dock of a brick building, possibly the McCormick Works factory. The side of the manure spreader ...
Photograph

Loading Dock and Train at Osborne Works

Date: 1907
Description: View down platform of train stopped at a loading dock at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). On the dock is a large stac...
Print

Trackpull Crawler Equipment

Date: 05 1926
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet for Trackpull crawler equipment for the Fordson tractor. The cover features a man using the Fordson tractor to pull a...
Print

Why Best Tractors are Tracklayers

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of an advertisement for Best tractors featuring a color illustration of a man using a plow pulled by two oxen to work in a field. The headline ...
Book or Pamphlet

Power for Every Need

Date: 1921
Description: Back cover of a pamphlet advertising the Caterpillar tractor with a headline that reads: "Power for Every Need." It is illustrated with six photographs of ...
Book or Pamphlet

Dependable Under All Conditions

Date: 1921
Description: Back cover of a pamphlet advertising 10-ton Caterpillar tractors. The headline reads: "Dependable Under All Conditions" and is illustrated with six photogr...
Photograph

Hogs

Date: 1933
Description: Three hogs feed on the Larson farm. There are farm wagons in the background and snow on the ground.
Print

The Mail Plane

Date: 
Description: Engraved print depicting two people harvesting grain along a fence line in a field. One person holds a scythe while the other carries a bucket, possibly th...
Print

Holt's Lightning Hay Knife

Date: 1881
Description: Front of advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man and young boy outside during winter. The man is using a Lightning Hay knife to cut the ha...

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