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Halvor Nerison Hauge and Other Farmers

Date: 1874
Description: Halvor Nerison Hauge (1830-1906) had much to be proud of in 1874: an imposing brick house, modern harvesting equipment and a growing family. When Dahl publ...
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Tobacco Field

Date: 08 24 1929
Description: A farmer is standing in a tobacco field, with crop ready to harvest. Farm buildings are in the background.
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Reaping Scene

Date: 1879
Description: Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings...
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Farmer and Computer

Date: 01 27 1960
Description: A farmer observes the processed results of the workings of an early computer or data machine. The machine was used to process and to organize data on a her...
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Threshing Grain

Date: 1950
Description: A stationary McCormick-Deering thresher in action at the E.J. Shuster Farm.
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Fuller & Johnson Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Date: 1890
Description: Foldout cards in a 10-page brochure for Fuller & Johnson Mfg. Co., Ltd., manufacturers of farm implements, based in Madison, WI. The top illustration is fo...
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"No More Crooked Rows"

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Description: Inside spread of 4-page advertising brochure for Fuller & Johnson Mfg. Co. Limited with a chromolithograph of a Bonanza Forge Drop planter, "The only perfe...
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CUNA Office in Cottage Grove Coop

Date: 02 05 1941
Description: Claire Onsgard, treasurer of the Dane County Farmers Equity Union Coop Credit Union in Cottage Grove showing member Fritz Swenson where to sign his loan ap...
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Farmer on Tractor

Date: 04 03 1930
Description: Photograph of a drawing of a farmer on a tractor.
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Combine Thresher and Tractor

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Two men are posing on a Nichols & Shepard combine thresher and Hart Parr tractor.
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Fordson Tractor

Date: 07 27 1927
Description: Man attaches extra rims onto a Fordson tractor.
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McCormick-Deering Tractor and Plow

Date: 05 04 1923
Description: Carl Seamonson plowing a field with a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor and plow.
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I'm A Farmer's Wife

Date: 04 06 1973
Description: Women picketing at a shopping center, urging others to boycott meat. One woman is wearing a sign on her back that reads: "I'm a farmer's wife."
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Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back...
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Tollef Gjermundsen Farmstead

Date: 1874
Description: View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon...
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Ole Wettlesen Barnyard

Date: 1874
Description: View of the Ole Wettlesen barnyard. A man is standing and holding a pail in the center near a lineback cow. People, cattle, sheep, horses, a barn, haysta...
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Barn Raising at Lars Davidsen Reque's Home

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Description: Barn raising at Lars Davidsen Reque's home. Crew members can be seen mortising freshly hewn timbers with a hand-operated boring machine. Men are also seen ...
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Men in Field Pointing at Livestock

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Description: Two men are in a field in the foreground, one sitting in a carriage, one standing next to it, and both men pointing to the background. There we see cows, h...
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Renk Family with John Deere Tractor

Date: 05 20 1947
Description: William F. Renk pointing to his son Robert Renk (sitting on John Deere tractor with Firestone Tires) and Walter Renk, leaning on the tractor. Another son, ...
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Renk Family with John Deere Tractor

Date: 05 20 1947
Description: William F. Renk, wearing a suit, and his sons. Left to right are: Walter Renk, Wilbur Renk, both standing, and Robert Renk sitting on a John Deere tractor ...

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