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Osborne Tillage Implement Catalog

Date: 1915
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Osborne line of tillage implements showing a farmer and son in a field with a horse-drawn dis...
Photograph

Family and Workers in Field

Date: 1895
Description: A large family group and workers pose in field in front of farming machinery and haystacks.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Onion Mound

Date: 1909
Description: Photomontage of several farmers working to lift a giant onion onto the flatbed horse-drawn cart. Beside them is a giant mound of onions with a ladder leani...
Photograph

Tractor Demonstration on the H.R. Clark Farm

Date: 08 13 1927
Description: Two men, one of them possibly H.R. Clark, sitting with two boys on a tractor. All of them are wearing overalls and floppy hats.
Photograph

Chesem Farm

Date: 1932
Description: A child looks on as two farmers, one of whom is possibly M.C. Mather, use a Farmall Regular(?) tractor to power a Ronning dump blower to fill a silo at Che...
Photograph

Farming Family in Yard

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Description: Portrait of an unidentified farm family in a fenced yard.
Photograph

Farming Family in Wagon

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Description: An unidentified farming family sitting in a wagon.
Photograph

Man and Boy in Oliver Tractor

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Description: A man and a boy in an Oliver "Row Crop 60" tractor, pulling a full load.
Photograph

Englehardt Farm

Date: 1905
Description: The manufacture of bricks was begun on this spot sometime in the latter 1860's by Henry Bretag, a German brickmaker, the father of Mrs. Englehardt. Brick ...
Photograph

Adults and Children Watching Farmer Operating McCormick Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A farmer is operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. A group of people, including two adults and four children, are looking on. The femal...
Photograph

Man and Boy with Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1899
Description: A farmer is sitting on a horse-drawn mower in a field of grain, while a boy is looking on from the side. Both the man and boy are wearing hats and suspende...
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.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Milwaukee Grain Binder

Date: 1915
Description: Two men and a child, all wearing hats, are at the back of a Milwaukee grain binder. One man is standing with a cradle in his hands. An older man with a bea...
Photograph

McCormick Wire Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A group of farmers are using a McCormick wire grain binder, built in 1876. A horse-drawn carriage is in the background. The original caption reads: "The im...
Photograph

Man and Girl with McCormick Milkers

Date: 1937
Description: A man crouches beside a McCormick single-unit milker outside a barn, while a young girl standing next to him holds the tubes of another milker in her hands...
Photograph

Man and Boy on Manure Spreader in Field

Date: 1911
Description: Man and boy (possibly father and son) on farmland near a cornfield operating a horse-drawn No. 3 Clover Leaf manure spreader. A barn is in the background.
Photograph

J.H. Gilchrist with Granddaughter in Cotton Field

Date: 1915
Description: J.H. Gilchrist, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, eyeglasses, and long coat, is standing in a cotton field on his farm to show his granddaughter, Lelia Sykes, th...
Photograph

Children Too Near Grain Binder

Date: 07 1927
Description: Two children are walking closely behind a man operating a grain binder pulled by a team of four horses through a field, illustrating the dangers of standin...
Photograph

Men and Child With Automatic Self-Rake Reaper

Date: 1900
Description: A girl wearing a dress and hat is carrying a metal pail towards men using a McCormick automatic self-rake reaper in a field.
Photograph

Giese Barn

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Description: Gary and Sue Giese live at W1161 Zion Church Road (Section 27). Their granddaughter is Sydney Comstock. The Giese's milk 30 cows that produce about 1,000 l...

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