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Photograph

Lunch Break

Date: 1915
Description: Field workers take a lunch break outdoors. The man holding the food is Frank Haack and the woman taking a bite is his sister-in-law, Anna Bollenbeck.
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Feeding Milk to a Calf

Date: 
Description: A farming man and woman holding a horse and feeding milk to a baby cow.
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Potato Harvest

Date: 1918
Description: Group of seven people seated in a field and eating raw potatoes. The family dog is also present.
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Man and Boy on Manure Spreader in Field

Date: 1911
Description: Man and boy (possibly father and son) on farmland near a cornfield operating a horse-drawn No. 3 Clover Leaf manure spreader. A barn is in the background.
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Two Men Loading Manure Spreader

Date: 1911
Description: Panoramic view of two men loading a horse-drawn manure spreader (possibly a Kemp) in a field.
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Mogul Jr. Engine and Keystone Corn Sheller

Date: 1915
Description: A man in open doorway of a farm building using a Mogul Jr. 1 H.P. stationary engine to power a belt-driven Keystone corn sheller.
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Engine Powered Silo Filler

Date: 1915
Description: Men using a stationary engine to power a silo filler. Two men are loading the silo filler while another man is standing in a horse-drawn wagon. Another man...
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Mogul Stationary Engine

Date: 1916
Description: Men standing in a farmyard with a Mogul engine running what appears to be a belt-driven ensilage cutter, which is near the open door of a barn.
Painting

Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
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Workers Raking Hay

Date: 1937
Description: Man with a horse-drawn hay rake in a field. Other field workers gather hay by hand in the background. Original caption reads, "raking heavy timothy hay int...
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Man Riding on Hay Rake

Date: 1936
Description: Man seated on hay rake pulled by two work horses. Original caption reads, "raking alsike clover with new McCormick-Deering Sulky rake owned and operated by...
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Working with a Binder

Date: 1899
Description: View of August, Alex, and Mrs. Alex (Florentina) Krueger working with the binder in a field.
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Family with Lunch at Threshing Operation in Canada

Date: 11 22 1927
Description: In the foreground a man is standing with three women and one girl. In the background men are near a tractor, thresher, and wagons of hay near a haystack.

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