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Farmer Grinds Corn with Grinder Run by Farmall Tractor

Date: 1931
Description: Farmer grinding corn in a barn with a belt-driven McCormick-Deering feed grinder powered by a Farmall 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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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...
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Family in Carriages with Barn

Date: 1878
Description: Barnyard, with what appears to be a pigyard littered with corncobs. It is enclosed with a solid board fence and has slop troughs made from hollowed logs. A...
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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...
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Farmer Shells Corn with Engine-Driven Sheller

Date: 1930
Description: Farmer operating a McCormick-Deering corn sheller powered by a portable engine.
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Herman Amberg Preus and Caroline Keyser Preus House

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Description: Wood frame house with carpenter's lace and family seated and standing to side of house in background. A windmill and small barn with cupola is in the right...
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Man in Field near Farmstead

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Description: A man is standing in a field with corn and other crops, with a windmill on a wooden tower and a barn in the background. Two carriages are also visible, one...
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1872
Description: Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental health Institute) is seen in the distance in this long view from across cornfields.
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Town of Moscow From Cornfield

Date: 1875
Description: View, through a cornfield, of people, a store, a sawmill and wagons. Moscow was platted in 1850 by an Englishman, Chauncy Smith, who dammed the Bluemound ...
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Church across Cornfield

Date: 1874
Description: View across a cornfield towards the left side of a frame church. There is elaborately patterned shingling on the steeple. Men are posing in and near open w...
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E. Thorsen Farm

Date: 1874
Description: The E. Thorsen farm in Springdale.
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McCormick-Deering 1.5 Horsepower Engine

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Description: Farmer using a McCormick-Deering 1 H.P. stationary engine.
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Aztalan Indian Mounds

Date: 1890
Description: At the Aztalan Indian Mounds a group of people are standing on a hillside in the background. In the foreground are corn shocks.
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Senator Proxmire and Constituents

Date: 1970
Description: Senator William Proxmire shakes hands with constituents at the Wisconsin State Fair while eating an ear of corn.
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Preparing Corn for Drying

Date: 1930
Description: A Native American woman is sitting on the ground preparing corn for drying. A man, with arms akimbo, is standing nearby, observing. Husked corn is piled on...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Corn Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1906
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Empire Corn Drills sold by International Harvester. Features an illustration of a man walking behind a horse-drawn corn...
Book or Pamphlet

Hoosier Corn Planters and Drills

Date: 1903
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Hoosier corn planters and drills manufactured by the American Seeding-Machine Company. The company was later purchased ...
Print

International Harvester Rotary Tiller Flyer

Date: 01 01 1977
Description: Advertising flyer for the International Harvester 526A Rotary Tiller, captioned, "Worth Its Weight in Vegetables and Flowers." A color photograph shows a m...
Book or Pamphlet

International 531 Combine Brochure - French

Date: 1970
Description: Front cover of a French brochure advertising the International 531 Combine (harvester-thresher). The color photograph shows a man wearing a beret, blue jac...

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