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Farmyard with Implements

Date: 1878
Description: Family in farmyard with farm implements, including a grain seeder and a threshing machine. Men are standing on top of hay in a wagon. Farm buildings and a ...
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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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Horse-Drawn Reaper with Windmill

Date: 1905
Description: Two men, two women and a boy harvesting grain with an early McCormick reaper. A windmill is in the background. The photograph may have been a staged re-ena...
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Alfalfa Field "The Manx"

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Description: Photographic postcard view across harvested field towards a man holding a rake and standing next to a horse-drawn wagon, and two women in the wagon sitting...
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Poster Illustrating Old and New Harvesting Methods

Date: 05 15 1928
Description: Poster or display board illustrating the differences between "old" and "new" methods of harvesting grain. Includes images illustrating harvesting methods b...
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Workers and Foremen (?) Posing in Field with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A group of men in suits, presumably foremen or supervisors, and several men in work clothes, are in a grain field. Most of the men in suits are either sitt...
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Miniature Farm Display at Muscatine Imp. Co.

Date: 07 02 1929
Description: A tabletop display of a miniature farm, including a house, barn, garage, windmill, fences, plants, tractor, truck, animals, and two water pumps. A sign on ...
Painting

A Farm Auction

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Description: An auctioneer, a clerk, and a helper stand on a stage on a farm conducting an auction as potential bidders surround them. Farming equipment and other items...
Photograph

Man and Child with Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe is raking cut stalks from a binder as a boy is riding a horse pulling the machine across a field. A windmill is stan...
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Farming with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man using a McCormick grain binder pulled by horses to work in a field. In the background is a barn, windmill and several other farm buildings.
Photograph

Farming with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using a McCormick grain binder pulled by horses to work in a field. In the background is a barn, windmill and several other farm buildings.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering 10-20 Pulling P&0 Little Wonder

Date: 05 04 1928
Description: Three-quarter rear view of man pulling a P&O (Parlin and Orendorff) Little Wonder plow with a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor. Decals are on the tractor an...
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Farmall Regular with No.2 Corn Sheller

Date: 1931
Description: Farmall Regular tractor powering a McCormick Deering No. 2 corn sheller near a barn.
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Farm Home with Dilapidated Yard

Date: 1924
Description: Exterior view of a farmhouse, windmill, and an adjacent barn, all standing in a dilapidated yard. A partially collapsed fence is in the foreground, and wha...
Book or Pamphlet

Parrett Tractor Pamphlet Back Cover

Date: 1900
Description: Back cover of a pamphlet advertising the Parrett tractor, featuring a photograph of a man using the tractor on a farm. The text reads: "The Parrett Tractor...
Photograph

Husker and Shredder in Farm Yard

Date: 1902
Description: Men with a wagon feeding corn stalks into a husker-shredder near a barn. Other farm implements are in the foreground behind a fence, and a windmill is in t...
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Grain Stacks

Date: 09 09 1895
Description: View across field of two men leaning against an enormous stack of grain on the farm of August Schmidt. There are many more stacks of grain leading into the...
Print

Hart-Parr Advertisement

Date: 1925
Description: Front cover of a Hart-Parr advertising booklet featuring a color illustration of a farmer using the Hart-Parr 30 tractor to work in a field on a farmstead,...
Photograph

Threshing Crew

Date: 1900
Description: Group of seven men, each holding a pitchfork, standing in a yard. Front row, left to right: Herman Bentert, Herman Riebe, Henry Burchardt. Back row, left ...
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No. 20 Harvester Thresher

Date: 1930
Description: Original caption reads: "No. 20 harvester-thresher equipped with pick-up attachment. When this device is used on the No. 20 harvester-thresher the machine ...

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