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Farmer Making Soap

Date: 1910
Description: The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T...
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Martha Buelke with her Cow

Date: 1899
Description: Grandma Martha (Goetsch) Buelke posed in front of a barn with her favorite cow. She is holding a milking pail.
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Men with Farm Tools

Date: 1879
Description: Five men, facing away from the camera, are standing in a field. Some of them are holding a rakes and a scythe. A boy is in the foreground facing the camera...
Poster

Deering Grain Binder Advertising Poster

Date: 1883
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration for the Deering All-Steel Binder with steel bundle carrier, produced by William Deering & Co. Includes an illustration ...
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Milking on the Greene Farm

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Description: Barn interior on the Greene Farm with cows in stalls, with one man milking a cow, and another man standing and holding a bucket and milking stool.
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Harold McCormick and his Children at Walnut Grove Farm

Date: 1922
Description: Harold F. McCormick (with cup) and his children, left to right: Muriel, Harold, Jr. and Mathilde at the Walnut Grove farm in Rockbridge County.
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Farm Family Posing in Yard of Home with Horse-Drawn Mower

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Description: Farm family posing around a house and yard, with the patriarch sitting in the seat of a mower behind two horses.
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Men Cutting Wood with Engine Powered Saw

Date: 1905
Description: Men cutting logs with a saw powered by an International Harvester gasoline engine on the farm of Casper Kaster.
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Men Clearing Stumps

Date: 09 03 1895
Description: Clearing stumps with a stump machine on the farm of Christopher Paustenbach, three miles east of Medford, Taylor County.
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Farmer at his Barn

Date: 09 28 1931
Description: Farmer Charles Nelson, carries a pail in front of the door to his barn. His 245 acre farm was southwest of Lake Wingra near Madison. It became the first pr...
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Cut Fence

Date: 09 10 1963
Description: A boy repairing the fence at the Golden Guernsey Dairy cooperative McKerrow Farms.
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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 ...
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Edna Kern Hauling Water

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern, wife of Ernest G. Kern, hauling water in buckets to the hen house.
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N. Lunde Farm

Date: 1874
Description: View framed by trees of a barnyard at the N. Lunde farm. Cattle and three men are standing in an enclosed yard in front of a barn with a cupola. One of the...
Photograph

Men by Haystacks

Date: 1873
Description: View across bare field towards two men posing with four haystacks behind a fence. One man is seated on a fence post and the other stands on a ladder agains...
Photograph

Three People on Ladder

Date: 1899
Description: A man and two women standing on a stile of broad wood in the middle of a field. The man standing on the second step, wearing a coat, bow tie, and fedora. T...
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Family and Workers in Field

Date: 1895
Description: A large family group and workers pose in field in front of farming machinery and haystacks.
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Woman Working with Milk Cans

Date: 1924
Description: Woman standing at a table with milk cans on it. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. A caption with th...
Book or Pamphlet

Drain the Wet Land

Date: 04 15 1930
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. The cover shows a man standing near a drainage ditch. The bookl...
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Farm Laborers with Reaper

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Description: A crew of farm laborers take a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman offers food and drinks. They are posed in front of a reaper with the family ...

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