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Indian Farmers Gather around International Harvester Tractor

Date: 07 01 1969
Description: The original caption reads: "Under a Banyan tree by the village well, neighboring farmers look over a farm tractor, first India-made one they have seen. Th...
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Man Operating M-12-H Cotton Picker

Date: 1948
Description: Man harvesting cotton with a McCormick-Deering M-12-H cotton picker.
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Farmer Poses with Watermelon aboard Cotton Picker

Date: 1944
Description: Farm worker, Frank White, stops harvesting to pose with watermelon found among the cotton crop. The field, part of the O'Neill Ranch located in Helm, Calif...
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African American Tenant Farmers Picking Cotton

Date: 1900
Description: Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand.
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Picking Beans at a Chicago Vegetable Garden

Date: 1917
Description: Three women and a man dumping the beans they've picked into wooden containers at a vegetable garden northwest of Chicago.
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F-12 Tractor and African American Field Workers

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: African American field worker levels the ground with a McCormick-Deering F-12 tractor and a rotary scraper in preparation for planting a new crop of celery...
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Man Standing in Clover

Date: 07 06 1940
Description: A man standing in field of high clover.
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Cultivator Demonstration

Date: 09 17 1936
Description: Slightly elevated view of a male worker in a field demonstrating a cultivator for the McKay Nursery. Other workers are in the field in the background.
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Cutting Grain

Date: 08 02 1926
Description: Harvesting grain with horse-drawn machinery at Farm Colony, Wisconsin State Hospital for Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), Highway 113.
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Threshing in the 1870s

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Description: Men and women pose in the middle of threshing operations with steam engine, horse-drawn wagon and a wheelbarrow equipped with a homemade basket. A handwrit...
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Young Girl on F-12 Tractor

Date: 07 06 1937
Description: Beverly Lundsten and hired man Gerald Stanford pose with a Farmall F-12 tractor on the Lundsten farm. The tractor is equipped with rubber tires and a singl...
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Harvesting Hemp with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Men harvesting hemp with an International 8-16 tractor and a hemp harvester.
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Harvesting Hemp with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Workers harvesting hemp with an experimental six-wheel drive International 8-16 tractor and hemp harvester.
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Hauling Hemp with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Worker hauling a wagon loaded with hemp using a an experimental four-wheel drive International 8-16 tractor.
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Harvesting Hemp with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Workers harvesting hemp with an International 8-16 tractor and a hemp gathering and bundling machine (binder?). After retting, hemp gathering machines were...
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Harvesting Hemp with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Man and woman harvesting hemp with an International 8-16 tractor and hemp gathering and bundling machine (binder?).
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Men Cutting Grain with Cradles

Date: 1929
Description: Men cutting grain with cradles while other men gather it into bundles by hand. The scene is a re-enactment filmed in 1929 for the Fox-Hearst film "Romance ...
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Picking Apples

Date: 1950
Description: An apple-picker stands among the branches of a tree, on a ladder with a pouch slung over his shoulder and belted around his waist.
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International 8-16 Tractor in front of Barn

Date: 06 18 1918
Description: Man in the seat of an International 8-16 tractor on the farm of E.V. Babcock. Mr. Babcock was mayor of Pittsburgh at the time.
Book or Pamphlet

Low Cloverleaf Manure Spreader Catalog

Date: 1917
Description: Advertising catalog for International Harvester's Low Cloverleaf manure spreaders. Features a color illustration of a man riding a horse-drawn manure sprea...

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