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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 10 1977
Description: Man harvesting cranberries on water.
Photograph

Farmer's Birthday

Date: 07 07 1983
Description: John Fitzsimmons and Barton Voegeli take a break from discing the fields to eat the birthday cake that Voegeli's wife made to celebrate the occasion.
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Planting Muskmelon Plants

Date: 05 24 1979
Description: Lyle Lurvey and Mrs. Lurvey on a tractor planting muskmelon on their farm near Highway 67, south of Dousman.
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World Food Fair

Date: 09 18 1967
Description: Ferris wheels and agricultural machinery are some of the things that attract fair-goers at the World Food Fair.
Painting

Steam Power

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Description: Painting of farmer with a steam powered tractor.
Painting

Threshing

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Description: A threshing scene during harvest time. In the background, the separater tender stands on the thresher overseeing the whole operation. He has a weighing dev...
Painting

Steam Power

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Description: A harvest scene in which an old-fashioned steam-powered tractor is hooked up to a threshing machine. There is a pile of coal next to the tractor and a tank...
Painting

Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
Painting

Corn Shredding

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Description: Two farm workers in the righthand foreground toss a corn bundle up to the horse-drawn corn shredding machine to be shredded. To the left, a man loads feed ...
Painting

Woodcutting Bee

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Description: Neighbors work together in the final process of sawing firewood, as they saw poles into blocks. The man with the plaid shirt and suspenders is the owner of...
Photograph

Cleaning Cow Barn

Date: 12 11 1983
Description: Delmer Staus of Waukesha County shoveling contents of one of his cow barns into a manure spreader.
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.
Print

Century of the Reaper

Date: 1931
Description: Cover of the book "Century of the Reaper" by Cyrus McCormick III ("Cyrusie"). The cover includes a color illustration of the senior Cyrus McCormick testing...
Photograph

Alfred Lunt and Threshers

Date: 1942
Description: Alfred Lunt watching as farm workers pitch grain into a thresher on the Ten Chimneys farm. Two men at the end of a chute collect the separated grain in sac...
Photograph

"Of Mice and Men" Publicity Still

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Description: Production still from the film "Of Mice and Men." A man is sitting on a horse while two other men are sitting and standing next to a harvesting machine in ...
Photograph

Haying

Date: 1950
Description: Haying on the farm with dramatic clouds in the background. The John Deere tractor is pulling the chopper as it empties into a wagon.
Photograph

The Population Explosion

Date: 1959
Description: A bird's nest with eggs, on the wheel of a vintage hay rake.
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Irrigation

Date: 06 1964
Description: Irrigation sprinklers spraying water onto a field near Grand Marsh.
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Harvest

Date: 1952
Description: A man driving a tractor, pulling a chopper filling a forage wagon, over gently rolling hills.

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