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Poster

Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
Photograph

Steam Tractor with Sod-breaking Plows

Date: 
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...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — India

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard with a color illustration of men and women working in fields. Original caption: "India — Primitive methods are still in use. The Reaping Hook has ...
Poster

Deering Small Calendar

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising calendar for the Deering line. The 1926 French calendar's month of January shows a woman who had been working on a farm.
Photograph

Family Scything in a Field

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Description: Three men scythe a field, possibly of wheat. Behind the men there are three children and a woman standing in a row.
Photograph

Woman Operating International A Tractor at Military Base

Date: 1942
Description: A woman uses an International Model A tractor to mow grass on the side of a hill at Camp Pendleton. In the background is an encampment of tents set up at t...
Photograph

Three Men with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men use a McCormick grain binder in a field overlooking a body of water, probably the Saint John River, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Men an...
Photograph

Harvesting with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Men use a McCormick grain binder to harvest a crop on a hill overlooking a valley. Town buildings are on a hill in the far background. Two women and two ch...
Photograph

Cranberry Growers

Date: 10 1984
Description: Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries.
Postcard

Threshing Time on the Old Farm

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored postcard showing a farm crew with horses, a tractor, and other agricultural implements threshing grain crops in a field. Women in dresses pose...
Photograph

Field Cultivation

Date: 1967
Description: Migrant laborers hoe a cucumber field by hand. There is one worker in the foreground and two others in the background. Rows of seedlings extend across the ...
Photograph

Working with a Binder

Date: 1899
Description: View of August, Alex, and Mrs. Alex (Florentina) Krueger working with the binder in a field.
Photograph

Strawberry Picking at Lake Nursery

Date: 
Description: Man showing a carton of strawberries under an awning, while behind him men, women, and children are gathered in a field to pick strawberries, probably at t...
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...
Photograph

Group with Two Horse-Drawn Binders in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men, children, and a woman with two horse-drawn McCormick binders in a field. Some of the men are standing sideways, in profile, looking left. A y...
Photograph

Group of People in Field with Horse-Drawn Binders

Date: 1900
Description: Group of people in a field posing with two horse-drawn McCormick binders. On the right a man stands in front of a woman sitting on a binder. On the left, t...
Photograph

Woman Cutting Grain with Hand-Scythe

Date: 1900
Description: Woman in field cutting grain with hand-scythe. There is a small building behind a fence on the right. In the background are fields, rolling hills, and an e...
Photograph

Four People Posing in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards four people, a man, woman, and two children, reaping grain by hand.
Photograph

Mrs. Mabel Arbogast Driving a Farmall A

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Mabel Arbogast of Eldon, Mo., driving a Farmall A pulling a disk harrow through rye on the farm of Mr. E. Arbogast. She is sitting on a sheepskin seat...
Photograph

Woman Driving Tractor Pulling Disk Harrow in Canada

Date: 11 22 1927
Description: Elevated view of a woman driving a tractor to pull a disk harrow in a field.

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