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Machines Agricoles & Ficelle Deering

Date: 09 25 1925
Description: Advertising calendar for Deering brand farm machinery showing a French woman in a field with a basket and tilling tool. Printed by H. Brun, Paris, France.
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

Alexander Legge

Date: 09 20 1923
Description: Alexander Legge (1866-1933) with a pitchfork full of hay at a Thresher demonstration at International Harvester's Hinsdale farm. Men are milling around a t...
Poster

Deering Harvesting and Hay Machines Poster

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising poster for Deering harvesting and haying machines. Includes color illustrations of a hay rake, grain binder, hay tedder and mower. Printed by E...
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Unloading Oats at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Stock Pavilion

Date: 12 09 1929
Description: A cargo of oats is unloaded from a horse-drawn wagon with the assistance from a tractor, via a grain elevator at the Stock Pavilion on the University of Wi...
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Combine Thresher and Tractor

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: A group portrait of men, women and children standing in a field, with a Nichols & Shepard combine thresher and Hart Parr tractor behind them. In the backgr...
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Toledo Scale

Date: 06 13 1928
Description: Man weighing a milk can on a new Toledo scale at the H.M. Zander Creamery.
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Tractor in Field

Date: 07 30 1927
Description: Tractor in field with Quick-on rims.
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Potato Field

Date: 08 02 1926
Description: Four men in a potato field at Farm Colony, Wisconsin State Hospital for Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), Highway 113.
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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.
Poster

Harvester-Thresher Advertising Poster

Date: 1929
Description: Advertising sign for the McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thresher (Combine). The poster includes the slogan "Once Over and it's All Over."
Poster

Spanning the Centuries

Date: 1929
Description: Calendar sheet for "Deering-International" farm equipment manufactured by International Harvester Company. Features a color illustration of a man operating...
Photograph

Planting Corn with Farmall Tractor

Date: 06 17 1927
Description: Farmer planting corn with a Farmall tractor and corn planter on the farm of D.H. Hummell.
Photograph

African American Farm Laborer at Stovall's Plantation

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Young man sitting in a planter drawn by two mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall.
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Farmer with Walking Planter

Date: 1925
Description: Farmer in a field walking behind a P&O planter drawn by a mule. There is an automobile on a road near a house behind a fence in the background.
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Russian Man Plowing Field with Homemade Harrow

Date: 1920
Description: Man guides a homemade harrow through a field with a horse. The original caption reads: "Primitive methods of agriculture in Russia (Volga region)."
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Farmall Regular Tractor with Plow

Date: 10 04 1923
Description: Man operating an experimental(?) Farmall Regular tractor with attached plow.
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Farmall Drawn Planters

Date: 07 13 1928
Description: Rear view of a man driving a tractor pulling a planter in a field.
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Titan Tractor Pulling P&O Plow

Date: 1921
Description: Farmer pulling a P&O plow with a Titan tractor. The original caption reads: "Ira Wolf's farm, Aurora Ill., P&O plow."
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Farmall Drawn Cultivators

Date: 07 10 1928
Description: View towards two men driving Farmall tractors with cultivators in a field. There are farm buildings in the background.

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