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Tobacco Farming

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Description: Farmers harvesting and loading tobacco on a tobacco rack to take to a shed.
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Engine Powered Hay Press on Farm

Date: 1905
Description: Men operating a hay press powered by an International Harvester stationary engine as a woman is looking on. They are working near a barn which has chink-lo...
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Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Man in a field in the seat of a mower drawn by two horses. The mower may be a McCormick, manufactured by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company.
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Advance Thresher Company

Date: 1899
Description: Exterior view of the Advance Thresher Company, 601 Williamson Street, as seen in "Madison, Wis. And It's Points Of Interest." The dealer was one of many wh...
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Hough Payloader

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Description: Man driving Hough Payloader, clearing land and loading demolition debris. Hough became a subsidiary of International Harvester Company.
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Woman On Avery Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Woman holding flowers posing on the back of an Avery gasoline tractor.
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Katherine Dexter McCormick on a Grain Binder

Date: 08 1905
Description: Three men in suits work on an International Harvester grain binder while Katherine Dexter McCormick sits in the seat of the machine. The man bent over the ...
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Sweep Horsepower Threshing

Date: 1890
Description: Sweep horsepower threshing. Men and products lined up near the machinery with a large haystack on the left.
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Katherine Dexter McCormick Operating a Grain Binder

Date: 08 1905
Description: Katherine Dexter McCormick operating a horse-drawn grain binder on a 1,320 acre farm near west of Fargo, North Dakota. The five men following the binder ar...
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Farm Machinery Exhibit at the State Fair

Date: 1905
Description: Exhibits of farm equipment and the gasoline engines that would have powered some of them at the Wisconsin State Fair. A Ferris wheel is visible in the back...
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Esterly Harvesting Machine Company

Date: 1890
Description: Esterly Harvesting Machine Company looking southeast across State Street at intersection with Newcomb Street.
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Esterly Harvesting Machine Company

Date: 1890
Description: Esterly Harvesting Machine Company looking southwest across State Street at intersection with Newcomb Street.
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Threshing Steam Tractor

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys posing around a threshing steam tractor. Oliver Johnson is in the foreground. John Bergeson and Art(?) are on top of the stack. Henning Berges...
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Green Pea Combine

Date: 1969
Description: A pea combine in use on an unidentified Wisconsin farm.
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Harvesting Corn

Date: 1902
Description: A farmer is using a corn binder, while two other men are collecting the shocks. A farmhouse is in the background with several individuals standing on the p...
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Group of People Posed Along Storefronts

Date: 1900
Description: Large group of people posed in commercial area on a wooden sidewalk. Leigeois Bar, Implement Store, and Blacksmith Shop. Joseph Leigeois is shown in the fo...
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Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using what appears to be a mower drawn by two horses to work in a field. Farm buildings and other workers are in the background, as well as child...
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Family in front of La Crosse Happy Farmer Tractor

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Description: A family in front of a La Crosse Happy Farmer tractor hitched to a threshing machine.
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Don't Buy Rath

Date: 04 17 1950
Description: Workers leaving the John Deere factory read literature from United Packinghouse of America workers on strike at a nearby plant. Although the location of th...
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Wallin Brothers Threshing Rig

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Description: Crew of men harvesting grain using horses, a tractor and a thresher. Three men standing in the field at left are wearing suits and hats.

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