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International Harvester Truck with Pumpkins

Date: 1951
Description: Color photograph of a farmer filling a red International Harvester L-120 truck with pumpkins.
Poster

Chattanooga Cane Mill Advertising Poster (Colombia)

Date: 1926
Description: South American advertising poster for Chattanooga brand cane mills showing men processing sugar in a tropical setting. Imprinted with "unicos importadores ...
Photograph

Young Boys Posed with Pumpkins and Watermelons

Date: 
Description: Group of young boys, all wearing hats, posing in front of a building with an assortment of pumpkins and watermelons.
Photograph

Elderly Woman Picking Turnips

Date: 02 23 1915
Description: Mrs. James M. Baker in her winter garden picking turnips. Original caption reads: "She was pulling some winter turnips which behind her were multiplying. I...
Photograph

Rock County Display Booth

Date: 08 29 1926
Description: Rock County farm crops exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Photograph

Man Tastes Wine in Vineyard

Date: 1975
Description: Color photograph of a man drinking from a glass of wine in a vineyard in France. In the background a vineyard worker is cultivating the field with an Inter...
Photograph

Cassville Brewery

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d...
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Cutting Sugar Cane

Date: 
Description: Workers are shown cutting sugar cane in the fields near New Orleans. Caption reads: "Cutting Sugar Cane In Louisiana."
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Fertile Lands with Potato

Date: 1910
Description: A giant, oddly-shaped potato rests on a flatbed railroad car. A horse-drawn carriage with a driver is visible behind the train. White bags filled with pota...
Photograph

Aerial View of River View Cannery

Date: 09 10 1947
Description: Aerial view of the River View Cannery.
Photograph

Aerial View of Dundas Cannery

Date: 10 10 1947
Description: Aerial view of Dundas cannery.
Photograph

Aerial View of Cuba City Cannery

Date: 10 12 1947
Description: Aerial view of Cuba City Cannery.
Photograph

Cambria Cannery

Date: 08 10 1947
Description: Aerial view of Cambria Cannery.
Photograph

Family Farming

Date: 1942
Description: Slightly elevated view of Louis Finn and his five sons and three daughters working on their 150-acre potato farm with a Farmall tractor, a potato digger an...
Photograph

Feeding Milk to a Calf

Date: 
Description: A farming man and woman holding a horse and feeding milk to a baby cow.
Photograph

Farmall MV on Farm

Date: 1943
Description: The caption for this photograph states that this Farmall MV tractor is "shown at work on the 2800-acre Triangle Farm near McCall, Louisiana, some 1800 acre...
Photograph

Farmall MV Harvesting Sugar Cane

Date: 1943
Description: The caption states: "Farmall MV shown is owned by C.R. Tschirn of Donaldsville, Louisiana, who operates a 350-acre farm, 225 acres of which were in sugar c...
Photograph

Farmall MV at Work Harvesting Sugar Cane

Date: 1943
Description: The caption states the "Farmall MV shown is owned by C.R. Tschirn of Donaldsville, Louisiana, who operates a 350-acre farm, 225 acres of which were in suga...
Photograph

Four Men Drinking

Date: 1897
Description: Four men guzzle beverages in a cornfield. The caption on the stereograph reads, "Well, here goes looking at you."
Photograph

Men Harvesting Grain with Self-Rake Reaper

Date: 1905
Description: A man operates a horse-drawn self-rake reaper in a field while another follows behind with a rake. A girl approaches from the side with a jug in her hand.

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