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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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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 The self-binder came into use after the reaper, both of which were superceded by the combine.
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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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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 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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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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Threshing Scene

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Description: View across field towards men working with two threshing machines, each pulled by a team of horses wearing flynets. There is a boy on the left standing nea...
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Plowing Scene

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Description: View across field towards a man sitting on a plow pulled by a team of four horses.
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Threshing Scene

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Description: A group of men are standing and working around a thresher.
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Threshing Scene

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Description: View towards six men posing standing in and on top of a large haystack. In front of the haystack is a man standing on a large pile of hay on a wagon near t...
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Two Men, Two Horses and a Barn

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Description: View across barnyard of two men posing standing near a team of two horses in front of a large wooden barn.
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Picking Tomatoes

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Description: View down rows of a field towards men, women, and children picking vegetables, probably tomatoes, in a field.
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Cultivated Field

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Description: View of a cultivated field, with a fence post in the left foreground. A group of people are working in the field in the far background.
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Group Harvesting

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Description: Outdoor view of men and women sitting and standing in a field harvesting a crop.
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Harvesting on a Farm

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Description: View across field towards a farm. The farmhouse is on the left, a barn and other buildings are to the right of the farmhouse. In the center two women and t...
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Man in a Field of Vegetation

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a man standing in a field of vegetation, perhaps tomatoes. He is wearing a suit, and a boater hat.

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