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Field Preparation for Cranberry Marsh

Date: 08 08 1922
Description: A man is sitting on the back of a Kissel truck using machinery to dredge a field. The field was being cleared in order to prepare it for use as a cranberry...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Print

Pulling Stumps with Cletrac Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: A man uses a Cletrac crawler tractor to clear land on a farm. The caption beneath the photograph reads: "Pulling stumps and clearing land are important job...
Photograph

Men on Gang Plow in Horicon Marsh

Date: 09 08 1914
Description: Five men in hats and jackets, some holding the levers on a gang plow pulled by a Rumley tractor, pose for a group portrait. One man in work clothes stands ...
Photograph

Draining Horicon Marsh

Date: 1914
Description: View of a drainage ditch in Horicon Marsh. A man is on a path along the left of the ditch.
Photograph

Men in Plowed Horicon Marsh

Date: 1914
Description: Group of well-dressed men standing in front of a plowed segment of Horicon Marsh.
Photograph

Plowing on Horicon Marsh

Date: 10 1914
Description: View of furrowed ground in Horicon Marsh and men on a tractor in the process of plowing a drained portion of the marsh.
Photograph

IH TD-15 Series B Tractor Crawler Clearing Trees

Date: 1969
Description: This photograph was likely taken by the International Harvester Overseas Division for promotional purposes, and shows a man driving an International Harves...
Photograph

Clearing Land

Date: 1920
Description: Four Native American men posing while clearing land for farming. One man is standing atop a stump which has been pulled from the ground. Another man is hol...
Photograph

Man Using Tractor to Pull Stumps

Date: 06 12 1925
Description: Right side profile view of a man using a tractor to pull stumps.
Photograph

Man Using Tractor to Pull Stumps

Date: 06 12 1925
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a man using a tractor to pull stumps in a field.
Photograph

Man Using Tractor to Pull Plow to Break Up Field

Date: 06 12 1925
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a man using a tractor for pulling a plow to break up a field.
Photograph

Man Using 10-20 Tractor to Pull Plow to Break Up Field

Date: 06 12 1925
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of a man driving a 10-20 tractor for pulling a plow to break up a field.
Photograph

Two Men Pulling Stumps with a Tractor

Date: 06 16 1925
Description: One man is standing and watching while a man driving a tractor is pulling a stump from a field. There are farm buildings in the background.
Photograph

Man Driving 10-20 Tractor Pulling Plow in Rough Ground

Date: 06 16 1925
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man driving a 10-20 tractor pulling a plow in rough ground. A man on the right is helping with a rope being used to ...
Photograph

Two Men Pulling Stumps with a Tractor

Date: 06 16 1925
Description: View from rear of one man standing who is helping a man driving a tractor to pull a stump from a field. Farm buildings are in the far background.
Photograph

Man Clearing Land

Date: 09 14 1925
Description: A man is driving a McCormick-Deering tractor to clear a field near a forest.
Photograph

Stump Fence

Date: 1930
Description: A field is demarcated by tree stumps piled in a wide row. Beyond the piled stumps is a field with stumps still in the ground. There is a farm building on t...

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