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Photograph

Farmer Stacking Hay in Barn

Date: 07 14 1926
Description: Farmer loading hay from a wagon into a large barn using a winch. There are other farm buildings, a water tower, and a farmhouse in the background.
Photograph

Uncle Herman's Farm

Date: 08 02 1903
Description: Group of well-dressed people posing outdoors at Uncle Herman's farm. Harry Dankoler is the man in the middle holding the shutter release mechanism. On the ...
Photograph

Men in Field with Reaper

Date: 1873
Description: Three men with hats are standing in a field with a reaper and grain cradle. Two children (their images are blurred) are sitting in front of them. In the fi...
Photograph

Men Working with Hay near Farmstead

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Description: Men in a grain field are piling hay or straw onto a wagon as one man stands on top of the pile. On the left is a windmill on a wooden tower and behind are ...
Photograph

Family having Coffee in Yard

Date: 1874
Description: A family is seated around a table while a woman pours the coffee. Behind them, two people stand in the doorway of a frame house. A man stands on the roof o...
Painting

Residence of Mr. Martin Lutscher

Date: 1875
Description: Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s...
Painting

Haying Time

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Description: A farm boy is riding the "hay-fork horse" as the farmer is loading hay into the barn during haying time in July.
Photograph

IH Demonstration Farm at Oak Lake

Date: 1932
Description: Elevated view of International Harvester Company demonstration farm. A dirt road leads to the farmhouse in the background. In the foreground, a wagon loade...
Painting

Seifert Painting

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of farm.
Photograph

Horse-drawn Wagon

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Description: View of a horse-drawn wagon loaded with hay. Farm buildings can be seen beyond fields and horses.
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

Baling Hay

Date: 1955
Description: Left side view of man driving a John Deere tractor pulling a square baler attached to a wagon. Robert Krueger stands on the wagon behind the baler, stackin...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1907
Description: View across mowed field towards man using a horse-drawn mower. In the background on the right people are working near wagons loaded with hay in another fie...
Print

"Walnut Grove" — Homestead of the McCormick Family

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Description: View of Walnut Grove. Caption reads: "'Walnut Grove' — Homestead of the McCormick Family, Rockbridge Co., VA." In the foreground men are working to harvest...

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