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Farmer with Walking Planter

Date: 1925
Description: Farmer in a field walking behind a P&O planter drawn by a mule. There is an automobile on a road near a house behind a fence in the background.
Photograph

Lars Davidson Reque's Farm with Men and Boys

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Description: In this tableau, men and boys stand at the edge of the field in elaborate and fanciful poses. The man on the left holds a hoe and cake while the one on the...
Photograph

Plows at Chattanooga Plow Works

Date: 1930
Description: Men (mostly likely employees), plows, cane mills and an evaporator are lined up on a Main Street sidewalk outside the Chattanooga Plow Works.
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Four Men in Front of House with Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Man standing in yard in front of house and fence. There is a woman in the background sitting on the porch. A young man is driving a horse-drawn grain binde...
Photograph

Grain Cutting

Date: 1944
Description: Richard and Ralph Quinney, posing for a photo with their father, Floyd Quinney with corn knives and a scythe.
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International Model M Truck Outside Implement Dealership

Date: 1915
Description: View across the road of three men and an International Model M truck outside the A.H. Bentz farm equipment dealership. A sign on the building advertises ga...
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Spreading Lime in Alfalfa Field

Date: 09 1929
Description: View from rear of a man using a Farmall tractor and a McCormick-Deering lime sower to fertilize an alfalfa field at International Harvester's Hinsdale expe...
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"One-Mule Agriculture Method"

Date: 1914
Description: A group of farmers use mules to plow a field near a dirt road. A farm building and electrical or telephone poles are in the background.
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Horse-Drawn Wagon

Date: 03 1926
Description: A wagon hitched to two horses is standing alongside a dirt road as a man uses a hoe or shovel in the field to the left.
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Men with Big 4 Mowers

Date: 1900
Description: Two men are leading horses in pulling McCormick Big 4 mowers near a brick farmhouse. A girl wearing a dress and hat is sitting on a horse in the foreground...
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Men with Cub Cadets

Date: 1961
Description: Elevated view of men, possibly dealers or buyers, sitting on and gathered near International Harvester Cub Cadet lawn tractors. The machines were manufactu...
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest

Date: 
Description: Men working in field during Wisconsin cranberry harvest. Crates are stacked up throughout the field.
Book or Pamphlet

Wagon Truck and Gear Brochure

Date: 1939
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for "All-Purpose Trucks Farm Gears and Wagons Tractor-Trailer Gears." Includes a man driving a Farmall H tractor.
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest and Inspection

Date: 1934
Description: View down dirt road of field hands working to harvest cranberries in a flooded cranberry marsh, while men inspect newly harvested and crated cranberries. I...
Print

Russell Kerosene Tractor Brochure

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of brochure advertising Russell standardized kerosene tractors. The cover features several photographs of tractors being used on farms and to h...
Print

Yuba Ball Tread Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Two-page advertisement featuring a collage of photographs depicting the Yuba ball tread tractor at work in farm fields. A photograph of the Yuba Constructi...
Book or Pamphlet

Road Building with Cletrac Tractors

Date: 1921
Description: Front and back cover of a pamphlet advertising Cletrac tank-type tractors featuring a photograph of a man using a Cletrac crawler tractor to haul a wagon. ...
Photograph

Boy with Calf

Date: 1931
Description: Claire Alexander posing with a young calf in a pasture near a wooded ravine at his father's farm. There is a manure spreader and shed in the background.
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Woman and Girl Standing Near a Road

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Description: A girl wearing a bonnet is holding a can in her arms while standing in the grass along a dirt road. Just behind her is a woman, wearing a white blouse and ...
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Horses Pulling Plows

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Description: Elevated view over wooden scaffolding towards several plows on a road pulled by horses. In the background are tree-covered hills.

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