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McCormick-Deering 123-SP Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1944
Description: Slightly elevated view of fifteen-year-old Peggy Wold operating a McCormick-Deering 123-SP (self-propelled) harvester-thresher (combine) on the farm of Car...
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Wanda Lee Grace on Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: 16-year-old Wanda Lee Grace, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, driving her father's Farmall B tractor t...
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Family Farming

Date: 1942
Description: Slightly elevated view of Louis Finn and his five sons and three daughters working on their 150-acre potato farm with a Farmall tractor, a potato digger an...
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McCormick-Deering Cotton Harvester

Date: 1944
Description: Dorothy Hutchison operating a McCormick-Deering H-10-H cotton picker in a field. Stencils and/or decals are on the machine.
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Justman Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: The Justmans purchased the farm in 1976. They last milked cows in January 1998. They farm previously was in the possession of Ron's parents, Marvin and Van...
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Young Man Sitting on Hay Rake

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a young man sitting on a horse-drawn dump rake pulled by a team of horses. In the background are hills.
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Man Operating Mower with Horse

Date: 1895
Description: Left side view from front of a young man on a horse-drawn McCormick mower (or dump rake) in a field.
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Group of People with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1895
Description: A man with his back turned is posing on a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. On his left are four females, including a woman, one younger woman...
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Tobacco Planting

Date: 1960
Description: A young man in the foreground examines tobacco leaves. Two boys sit on a tractor attachment in the background.
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Stone Picking Bee

Date: 06 1987
Description: The Wagner family and friends stage a stone picking bee on their farm.
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Group of Men with Binders and Carriage

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of men standing in a field near a man using a horse-drawn binder in a field. In the background two men are sitting in a horse-drawn carriage...

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