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Alexander Lake's Nursery

Date: 1896
Description: A boy and a man are holding up small white pine trees, while workers are planting them at Alexander Lake's nursery. In the background are horses and wagons...
Photograph

African American Farm Laborer at Stovall's Plantation

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Young man sitting in a planter drawn by two mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall.
Book or Pamphlet

Hoosier Corn Planters and Drills

Date: 1903
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Hoosier corn planters and drills manufactured by the American Seeding-Machine Company. The company was later purchased ...
Photograph

Farmall H with Cotton Planter

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a McCormick Farmall H tractor with a forward cotton planter to work in a field. The original caption reads: "'Blackla...
Photograph

Super A Tractor with Cotton Planter

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a Farmall Super A tractor with a cotton planter attachment to plant in a field. The original caption reads: "'Bed' pl...
Painting

Spring Planting

Date: 
Description: A farmer is planting corn using the planter wire method.
Photograph

Planter with Bean Attachment

Date: 06 15 1926
Description: A man is driving a team of two horses who are pulling a McCormick-Deering planter with a bean attachment across a field while planting corn and soy beans. ...
Photograph

Children at Corn Germination Lesson

Date: 1913
Description: Class of children gathered outdoors around a table for a corn germination lesson. Original caption reads: "after the rag dolls are prepared they are immers...
Book or Pamphlet

Samson Corn Planters Brochure

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by the Samson Tractor Company, a division of General Motors Corporation, to advertise corn planters.
Book or Pamphlet

Model 12-20 Yuba Ball Tread Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Yuba Model 12-20 tractor, featuring an elevated view of two men using a Yuba half-track style crawler tractor to p...
Photograph

Men Planting Seedlings

Date: 
Description: Man and a boy posing standing and holding white pine seedlings in a field. Four men are crouching in a row planting the seedlings in a field. In the backgr...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Seeder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man using a horse-drawn seeder in a field. Trees and farm buildings are in the far background.
Photograph

Men Using Farmall M Tractor with Four-Row Cotton Planter

Date: 1939
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of two men using a Farmall M tractor with a four-row cotton planter in a field. Farm buildings are in the far background ...
Photograph

Man Driving Farmall Tractor Pulling Plow

Date: 09 03 1926
Description: View across field towards a man driving a Farmall tractor pulling a plow. Farm buildings are in the far background.
Photograph

Man Driving Tractor-Drawn Planter

Date: 06 17 1927
Description: View across field towards a man driving an IHC tractor to pull a planter.
Photograph

Farmall Drawn Planters

Date: 06 01 1928
Description: Rear view of a man driving a Farmall tractor pulling a planter in a field. Farm buildings are in the far background.
Photograph

Man Driving Farmall Super C

Date: 
Description: Left side view of a man driving a Farmall Super C in a field. Subject: "C-278 Planter & Farmall Super C." Where Taken: "MidW." Information with photograph ...
Photograph

Farmall Drawn Planter

Date: 06 01 1928
Description: View from rear of a man using a Farmall tractor to pull a planter in a field. Farm buildings and trees are in the distance.

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