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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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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...
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Engine Powered Hay Press on Farm

Date: 1905
Description: Men operating a hay press powered by an International Harvester stationary engine as a woman is looking on. They are working near a barn which has chink-lo...
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Henry Bigalk and Emil Kuney (Keune)

Date: 1906
Description: Henry Bigalk relaxes in a wheelbarrow holding an axe in his left hand, while Emil Kuney (Keune) is grabbing the wheelbarrow handles as if to transport Biga...
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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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Men Operating Feed Grinder

Date: 08 25 1928
Description: Two men operating a McCormick-Deering feed grinder in a barn or shed at International Harvester's experimental farm.
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McCormick Super W-4 Tractor and Hammer Mill

Date: 1953
Description: View of a man operating a hammer mill powered by a McCormick Super W-4 tractor in the doorway of a barn.
Book or Pamphlet

Dairymaid Cream Separators Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Dairymaid cream separators sold by International Harvester. Features a silhouette of a woman standing in the doorway of...
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Farm Family Posing Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: View down driveway towards a farm family posing in front of their farmhouse and farm buildings. An older man and woman are sitting. Three women are standin...
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Boiling Vats at Sugar Mill

Date: 1915
Description: Workers standing beside boiling vats at a sugar mill where the sap is boiled and made into sorghum molasses.
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Farmer Wearing Hat

Date: 1921
Description: A farmer, standing near a barn and pitchfork for a portrait.
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Harvest by Hand

Date: 1921
Description: Men cutting and gathering grain by hand. One man appears to be holding a scythe, or possibly a cradle.
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Women Peeling Apples

Date: 1944
Description: Three seated women with bowls on their laps peel apples outdoors while two men stand in the background.
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Cooling Milk with Ice

Date: 07 13 1936
Description: Two men stand on the side of a building. On man is setting a milk canister into a bulkhead of a cellar, while the other stands to the side holding ice ton...
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Women in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Two women wearing large hats stand in a field carrying a pail. Farm buildings are in the far background.
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Farmer Feeding Cows

Date: 1939
Description: L.M. Meyer filling a trough with food for cows inside a barn at Rock Creek Farm. The original caption reads: "L.M. Meyer, farm manager, feeding green alfal...
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Farm Manager Feeding Cows

Date: 1939
Description: L.M. Meyer feeding cows inside a barn at Rock Creek Farm. The original caption reads: "L.M. Meyer, farm manager, feeding green alfalfa ensilage to cows."
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Woman with Children in Barnyard

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Description: A portrait of a woman in a straw hat holding a horse in a barnyard and carrying hay in her left hand. There is an infant on the ground to her left, and a b...
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International Truck Hauling Hay

Date: 09 30 1937
Description: Two men loading the back of an International truck with hay in a field on the George Clindaniel farm.
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Tom Amlie's Home

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Description: Robert Bloch, Harold Gauer, Tom Amilie, and two unknown men at Amlie's home. Taken to illustrate campaign brochure of Amlie talking to "farmer types."

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