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Photograph

Experimental Motor Cultivator with Corn Binder

Date: 06 27 1919
Description: Engineering photograph of an experimental motor cultivator with a mounted ensilage cutter(?). A Deering grain binder is in the background.
Photograph

Checking Corn Kernels

Date: 1969
Description: Women workers at a Wisconsin canning factory inspecting corn as it passes by them on conveyor belts.
Photograph

Mogul 8-16 Tractor and Wagons

Date: 09 1916
Description: Men with a Mogul 8-16 tractor and wagons on a cobblestone street. The group is probably preparing for the Rock Falls Annual Corn Carnival, which took place...
Photograph

Baker Canning Company

Date: 08 18 1949
Description: "Corn awaits canning at the Baker Canning Co."
Photograph

Hillsboro Canning Plant

Date: 1959
Description: An official and workmen at Hillsboro Canning Plant examining a a large truckload of corn as it's dumped into a huge unloading platform. The individuals pic...
Photograph

Workers at Hillsboro Canning Plant

Date: 
Description: Interior view of the Hillsboro Canning Plant. A row of female and male workers are standing amongst the plant's corn processing machinery. The women have t...
Book or Pamphlet

J.I. Case & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1872
Description: Catalog cover reads: "J.I. Case, Manufacturers of Improved Threshing Machines, Steam Engines, Horse Powers &c." Features illustrations of vegetables, frui...
Book or Pamphlet

Salzer Seed Company Advertisement

Date: 1898
Description: An advertisement in the John A. Salzer Seed Company catalog. The illustration features corn and oats, and two circular insets, one of factories and fields,...
Photograph

Canning Factory

Date: 1977
Description: Slightly elevated view of women who are working processing corn on a canning assembly line at the Fall River Canning Company. They are wearing aprons and g...
Postcard

Waterloo Canning Association

Date: 1940
Description: Text on front reads: "Canning Co. Assn. Waterloo, Wis." Buildings, wagons and automobiles surround a canning factory. Founded in 1900, it was later purchas...

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