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Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1885
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat under one arm, and holding a hand scythe in the other hand.
Book or Pamphlet

Walter A. Wood Catalog Cover

Date: 1870
Description: Front cover of catalog with a green cover for Wood's harvesting machines. Features an illustration of, at the top, a view of a town, flanked by two women, ...
Book or Pamphlet

William Anson Wood Catalog Front and Back Cover

Date: 1880
Description: Front and back cover with gold and blue ink. On the front cover a woman representing Europa is giving a coin to another woman representing America. Other i...
Photograph

Turvill House and Garden

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the Turvill house and garden. A man and woman are working in the garden near the Turvill home. The woman, wearing a bonnet, is bent over w...
Photograph

August Krueger Family

Date: 1908
Description: Outdoor portrait of the August Krueger family posing with farming tools and leaning on a fence in front of a Catalpa tree. From the left: August Krueger is...
Photograph

Lynn Fontanne Working in the Garden

Date: 1946
Description: Lynn Fontanne using a hand hoe in the Ten Chimneys garden.
Photograph

Man and Woman in Field

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from Ceylon Carrie records: "Both men and women wear a sort of skirt made of a straight piece of cloth wound around the body." Here, a man i...
Book or Pamphlet

"Now is the Time for Showmanship" Booklet Cover

Date: 1953
Description: Cover of booklet on how to promote new International Harvester equipment with an equipment show and family party, and how to put them together for profit. ...
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

European American Family in Their Yard

Date: 
Description: View across yard in an unidentified location of a group of people posing in the yard of wooden house with a front porch. On the left is a boy sitting on a ...
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

Olsson & Larsson Dealership Grand Opening

Date: 1900
Description: View of people posing on the porch of a dealership during the grand opening. Two men are holding a U.S. Flag. People are standing with a mower and binder a...
Photograph

Unidentified Group of People at a Residence

Date: 
Description: Four women, two men and a horse are posing in the front yard of a house. In the background are farm buildings.
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

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Men and women work in a field raking and binding by hand near a man using a horse-drawn binder.
Photograph

Hand Reaping Operation

Date: 1900
Description: One man and two women are posing standing while working in a field. The women are wearing bonnets and are holding bundles of grain in their arms, and the m...
Photograph

Woman Driving Tractor Pulling Peg Tooth Harrow

Date: 1920
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a woman driving an International tractor pulling a peg tooth harrow in a field. The harrow is attached with a chain.
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

Man Driving Farmall M Tractor Harvesting Sugar Beets

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of a man driving a Farmall M tractor with 2-row beet puller for harvesting sugar beets in Midland, Manitoba, Canada. Wom...

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