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Poster

Lily Cream Separators Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for Lily brand cream separators featuring a color illustration of a woman operating a hand crank cream separator. Below is a scene of co...
Book or Pamphlet

Lily Cream Separator Catalog

Date: 1916
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Lily brand of cream separators showing a woman drinking a cup of water from a hand-pump, and ...
Photograph

Orchard and Landscape

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Description: Elevated view of a split-rail fence enclosing an orchard, with farmsteads and more fences in the distance. A man wearing a hat is posing with his hands on ...
Photograph

Farm of Thomas Williamson

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Description: View over a cornfield toward a distinctive barn, fences and animals. A group of women are standing near the barn in the center. A man and a child are stand...
Photograph

Pasture with Brick House and Barns

Date: 1870
Description: A pasture is in the foreground with a brick house, barn and connected outbuildings behind it.
Photograph

Wagon in Pasture

Date: 09 1929
Description: A horse-drawn wagon parked near a stopping gully in a pasture.
Photograph

The Sauk Prairie

Date: 1892
Description: A view of the Sauk Prairie looking south. From the left are the photographer's brother, Frank Bass; Mrs. Edward (Ada Burlingame) Bass and her daughter, Eve...
Photograph

Children Playing on Straw Pile

Date: 05 05 1926
Description: A child sits on top of a pile of straw while another sits below it. A horse is in a pasture in the background. Photograph taken for International Harvester...
Photograph

Farmer Steadying Newborn Calf in Field

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Description: A farmer holds a newborn calf steady as it stands with its mother in an open field. The mother cow nuzzles the calf.
Photograph

Two Cows in Field

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Description: Two cows with horns look into the camera while standing in a field. The original caption reads: "Meredith Jersey Cows; Comerna and Coferna, Twin Daughters ...
Photograph

Woman and Cows in Barnyard

Date: 1935
Description: Woman and eight cows in a barnyard, with barns and farm outbuildings in the background in Iron County.
Photograph

Farmer and Cows

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Description: A farmer in overalls and hat stands in a pasture next to a Holstein cow. He holds a bucket and is gripping one of the cow's horns. More cows are grouped in...
Photograph

Young Boy with Two Dogs

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Description: A young boy wearing work clothes, boots and a knit cap stands on a hill with his two dogs. Behind him a man holding what appears to be a coil of wire is st...
Photograph

Flock of Shropshire Sheep

Date: 1895
Description: A flock of purebred Shropshire ewes standing near a fence on the farm of Geo. Martin. In the background is a farmhouse with laundry on the line, a farm bui...
Photograph

Hogs at Feeding Time

Date: 10 12 1895
Description: Forty-nine hogs at feeding time on the farm of William Miller. The hogs are eleven-months old and weigh approximately 260 lbs each. A wagon and horse team ...
Photograph

Man with Cows

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Description: Man posing while tending cows in a pasture in front of a barn. In the background is a fence, farm buildings, and farmhouse. Snow is on the ground.
Photograph

Sabin General View

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Description: View down unpaved road towards the General Store on the right, with horses and buggies and their drivers assembled out front. A man is standing on the fron...
Photograph

Boy with Sheep

Date: 1932
Description: Gilbert Harvey, wearing a cap and bib overalls, standing in an open pasture with the sheep he raised as a 4-H project.
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.
Photograph

School Picnic

Date: 1931
Description: Teacher Marian Violet Metcalf, center, stands among her students as they prepare to roast marshmallows at the school picnic. Picnic baskets and a large mar...

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