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Book or Pamphlet

More and Better Potatoes to the Acre

Date: 06 15 1932
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to help farmers improve their potato crops. Includes an illustra...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Potato Diggers

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Potato digger drawn by three horses in field near a man wearing a white shirt with collar and boater hat. A wire basket full of potatoes and a bushel baske...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Our Barn is Full

Date: 1912
Description: Several women and a man are outside of a barn, which is overflowing with giant onions, corn, and potatoes. A ladder is placed against the large stack of on...
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

Potato Harvest

Date: 1918
Description: Group of seven people seated in a field and eating raw potatoes. The family dog is also present.
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Sorting Potatoes

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Description: Potatoes going from truck to sorting machine at the Mumbrue farm. Roy Roth and George Mumbrue stand next to the machine in front of a barn.
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Bushel of Potatoes

Date: 09 26 1895
Description: A pile of potatoes, weighing one hundred and seventy-four pounds, sits next to an overturned bushel basket on the potato field of Henry Kuepper. Stumps and...
Photograph

Elmer Tompkin Driving Farmall M with No. 12 Two-Row Digger

Date: 1940
Description: View from rear of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elmer Merrill's 400-acre ...
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Elmer Tompkin Driving Farmall M with No. 12 Two-Row Digger

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elme...
Photograph

Mr. Bagley on Farmall M

Date: 1940
Description: Alden G. Bagley driving a Farmall M pulling a wagon loaded with barrels of seed potatoes. Behind him is his 6,000 barrel storage house.
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Mrs. J.L. Hill Checking Records

Date: 1941
Description: Mrs. J.L. Hill checking and keeping records of car numbers and sacks of Lerdoo Long White potato crop as it reaches the potato shed from the field.
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Frank Russell Driving Farmall H Tractor in Potato Field

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of Frank Russel driving a Farmall H tractor with a middlebuster to harvest potatoes.
Photograph

Three Women Posing on Tractor Pulling Potato Digger

Date: 1930
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of three women posing on a tractor pulling a potato digger outdoors in a potato field on the farm of L. Wilson. One woma...
Photograph

Harvesting Potatoes

Date: 1925
Description: A Ho-Chunk family working in a field at harvest time. Two men are leaning on potato forks, while a woman and children are standing in the background. There...
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Farmall M Tractor Pulling a Potato Digger

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Description: A man operating a Farmall M tractor while pulling a potato digger. Several men are behind the digger, bagging potatoes off of a conveyor.
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Field of Harvested Potatoes

Date: 10 27 1923
Description: View down field of harvested potatoes. A man wearing a suit and hat is standing on the left and looking down at a basket of potatoes. More baskets of potat...
Photograph

Field of Harvested Potatoes

Date: 10 27 1923
Description: Rear view of a man using a horse-drawn potato digger in a field. Baskets of harvested potatoes are scattered among the rows.
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Potato Digger

Date: 10 27 1923
Description: View across field of harvested potatoes towards a man using a horse-drawn potato digger. There are other people in the background, and baskets of harvested...
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Digging Potatoes

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of two men working in a field. One man is driving a Farmall tractor which is pulling another man who is sitting on a pot...
Photograph

Men in Field Harvesting Potatoes

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Description: View of a group of men and boys standing in a field. They are harvesting potatoes with horses and horse-drawn implements. Hand-tinted lantern slide.

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