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Men Using Tractor and Threshing Machine

Date: 1897
Description: Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a...
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Wooden Picket Fence

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Description: View down side of wooden picket fence in a residential section of town. There is a wooden bench against the fence, and stalks of corn can be seen just over...
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Men Plowing Field

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Description: Probably a first plowing of land after the trees and stumps have been removed by grubbing. Many roots still remain, and the "breaking plow" turns a wide fu...
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Man Cultivating Field

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Description: A man uses a hand cultivator in a field of what could possibly be onions.
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Family Scything in a Field

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Description: Three men scythe a field, possibly of wheat. Behind the men there are three children and a woman standing in a row.
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Self-Binders in a Field

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Description: Two teams of horses pull two self-binders through a field. The self-binder came into use after the reaper, both of which were superceded by the combine.
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Farmers Threshing

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Description: Numerous farmers participate in the threshing of grain. Left is the straw stack, center is the threshing machine and wagon to haul it to the granary, and r...
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Grain Stacks

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Description: Two of four conical grain stacks which were arranged in "settings" of four to permit all four to be threshed from a single "setting" or position of the thr...
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Two Men and Threshing Machine

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Description: Two men stand near a threshing machine.
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Blowing Grain Into Barn

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Description: A blower is attached to a steam tractor by a belt and blows grain into a barn. A man stands by the tractor while others stand on the blower near the barn.
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Ho-Chunk and European American Group Cranberry Harvesting

Date: 1900
Description: A large group of Ho-Chunks and white people harvesting cranberries. The wooden boxes lying in the field were filled with the fruit and then shipped by rail...
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Farm Buildings

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Description: View across harvested field, of what was probably corn, of frame house and barn.
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Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: A group of men are operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. Three men are posing in the foreground near the tractor, and anot...
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Field with Workers

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Description: View from grassy field of a field of crops on a low slope. The crops are supported by wire or rope attached to posts at the end of each row. There are work...
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Berry Bushes

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Description: View down row of what may be a field of berry bushes. A wood post in the foreground on the right has wire or rope supporting the row of plants. Trees and h...
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Elderly Woman and Girl Sitting Near Cornfield

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Description: Portrait of an elderly woman, and a young girl on her left, each sitting in a chair in front of a wire fence. Behind the fence is a cornfield.
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Field Work at Luke's Nursery

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Description: Slightly elevated view of plants supported with stakes in a field. There is a water tower in the background on top of a hill on the right. People are worki...
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Group with Tobacco Harvest

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of four men and one woman posing standing in a tobacco field next to a tobacco wagon pulled by a two horses.
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Tobacco Field

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Description: A tobacco field next to a wooden building.
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Binder and Threshing

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Description: View across field towards three men operating a binder and threshing machinery pulled by a team of four horses.

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