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Horse and Buggy on a Country Road

Date: 1906
Description: View down tree-lined country road near Wausau, taken by Dr. Joseph Smith, talented amateur photographer. It depicts women (probably members of his family) ...
Photograph

Combine on Hilly Terrain

Date: 09 09 1926
Description: Farmers harvesting with a combine on hilly terrain with a horse-drawn no. 7 Hillside combine on the farm of J.B. McMurray.
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Experimental Combine Harvesting Grain

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view of men harvesting grain with a McCormick-Deering 12 foot experimental combine (harvester-thresher) pulled by a Farmall M tractor. There is a ...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer ope...
Book or Pamphlet

Brantford Steel Binders Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Front and back cover of an advertising catalog for A. Harris, Son & Company of Brantford, Canada, manufacturers of grain binders, mowers and reapers. The c...
Photograph

Combine Thresher and Tractor

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Two men on a Nichols & Shepard combine thresher and Hart Parr tractor.
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Man in Field

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Description: A man with a beard and wearing a hat is standing in the foreground in a clover field. A cornfield is just beyond the clover field, and beyond is a barn on ...
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Men in Hats Standing in a Field

Date: 1874
Description: Two men wearing hats are standing in tall grass in the foreground. One man has his arm raised while pointing across a harvested field to a farmstead among ...
Photograph

Man Tastes Wine in Vineyard

Date: 1975
Description: Color photograph of a man drinking from a glass of wine in a vineyard in France. In the background a vineyard worker is cultivating the field with an Inter...
Photograph

Man in Field

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Description: A man with a hat is sitting in a field in the foreground. A fence runs though the field in the middle ground. In the distance is an upright and wing frame ...
Photograph

G. Gullockson Farmstead

Date: 1876
Description: View, from above, of what may be the G. Gullockson farmstead. A frame house is in the left foreground, with a large group of men, women and children standi...
Photograph

Lombardy Poplars

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Description: A rural lane lined with Lombardy poplars runs between two fenced fields. Two men are standing in the lane looking towards the camera. A church and many oth...
Photograph

Farmers in Wheat Field with Cradle Scythe

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Description: Farmers standing in a wheat field. The men are holding a hand-operated cradle scythe and a rake. A frame house is in the background along with several farm...
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Elevated View of Town

Date: 1899
Description: View of Bloomington, with a man in the foreground looking over the vista.
Photograph

California Poppy Field

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Description: A worker is shown in a California poppy field.
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Man Using No. 7 Mower

Date: 07 05 1935
Description: A man using a horse-drawn No. 7 mower in Hamilton, Ontario, while his dog follows alongside.
Photograph

New Deering Disc Harrow

Date: 05 22 1913
Description: Right side view of a man using a horse-drawn Deering disk harrow in a field.
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Fence and Landscape in "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still of the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reaper...
Photograph

Experimental Harvester-Thresher

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Description: Side view of a man using an experimental No.127 SP harvester-thresher (combine) in a field. Mountains are in the far background. The original caption read...
Photograph

McCormick Binder in South African Field

Date: 01 21 1924
Description: Rear view of a man using a team of mules and horses to lead a McCormick binder through a field in Malmesbury, South Africa. Another man is standing in fron...

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