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Photograph

Pumpkin Harvest

Date: 10 1983
Description: "Milton and Adeline Retzlaff show off their bountiful pumpkin harvest."
Print

McCormick Harvester & Twine Binder

Date: 
Description: Letterpress print of a McCormick Harvester & Twine Binder. The grain binder is operated by a man seated on the machine and pulled by two horses. A farmhous...
Book or Pamphlet

Allis-Chalmers Farm Tractor Bulletin

Date: 11 1919
Description: Front cover of the Allis-Chalmers general purpose farm tractor Bulletin 1303. The cover features an illustration of a man using a tractor in a field with f...
Photograph

Farm Buildings

Date: 
Description: View across dirt road of farmyard. A man on the left stands with two horses in front of a barn. In the center there appears to be two women sitting in a b...
Photograph

People in Yard Outside a Frame House

Date: 
Description: Man posing sitting on farm equipment, probably a grain-binder, pulled by a team of four horses in the driveway of a large two-story frame house. A man is s...
Photograph

Gettysburg Farmhouse

Date: 07 1863
Description: Stereograph of the farmhouse of Abram Bryant, a free black man who lived near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. An African American man is standing near the porch ...
Photograph

Man with Cows

Date: 
Description: Man posing while tending cows in a pasture in front of a barn. In the background is a fence, farm buildings, and farmhouse. Snow is on the ground.
Photograph

Peasant Plowing with Horse

Date: 1918
Description: A peasant farmer plowing a field with the plow harnessed to a horse. The farmer's daughter is wearing a light-colored patterned dress and stands on the lef...
Photograph

The Heritage Farm after the Tornado

Date: 09 21 1931
Description: View of damaged farmhouse and group of people sitting and standing outdoors. The roof was blown off and windows were shattered. Four women stand in the yar...
Photograph

Oscar Hendrickson Family

Date: 1932
Description: Oscar Hendrickson and his wife pose with their sons Kenneth and Myron in front of their house. Kenneth, a student at the Mud Branch School, District No. 2,...
Photograph

Grading the Road

Date: 1931
Description: Men using horse-drawn and gasoline powered road equipment work on Highway 80 near Rockbridge. A wooded bluff rises steeply behind a farmhouse. Barns, a sil...
Photograph

Warren Potter

Date: 1932
Description: Warren Potter, holding a bucket, poses with his sheep and lambs. There is a road in the background and a farmstead on the other side of the road.
Photograph

Frank Smith, Jr.

Date: 1933
Description: Frank Smith, Jr., age 12, feeds chickens on his father's farm. The farmhouse is in the background. Young Smith was a student at the Hillcrest School, Distr...
Photograph

Farmer with Boys and Horses

Date: 1922
Description: Farmer and three boys posing with five horses in front of a house.
Photograph

Portrait of the Gilbert Family

Date: 1915
Description: Mr. Gilbert's family standing in front of a farmhouse. The man on the left is holding what appears to be a cornstalk. Three other men, two women, and a dog...
Painting

The Cranberry Harvest

Date: 
Description: Cranberry harvesters at work. Mural painting in the U.S. Post Office at Berlin, Wis.
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of the Empire Drill Company catalog. Features an image of a man driving a team of two horses (toward the viewer) while pulling an empire drill....
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Mower & Reaper Catalog Cover

Date: 1869
Description: Features an illustration of a buck in the foreground, and in the background a landscape, which includes on the right a man driving a horse-drawn agricultur...
Book or Pamphlet

Planet Jr. Implement Catalogue Cover

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of the Planet Jr. catalog. Features an illustration of a man and young girl (about 5 or 6 years old) in a garden pushing a Planet Jr. Garden Drill to...
Book or Pamphlet

Eclipse Wind Engine Co. Catalog

Date: 1880
Description: Page from Eclipse Wind Engine Co. [Beloit, Wisconsin] catalog featuring an illustration of an Eclipse Wind Engine installed in a barn. A cut-away view show...

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