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African American Farmer Hauling Corn to Market

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Description: Farmer hauling corn to market with an ox-driven wagon. Original caption notes that oxen were used considerably in the south for motive power.
Book or Pamphlet

Case Centennial Plow Brochure

Date: 1937
Description: Front cover of a brochure advertising the Case Centennial Plow. The brochure is titled "Plows on Parade" and tells the history of the steel plow business t...
Poster

International Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Advertising poster for International motor trucks with color illustration of a truck and ghostly images of pioneers on horseback and oxen-drawn Conestoga w...
Postcard

Ox Tram

Date: 09 1907
Description: Two harnessed black oxen are standing near a clothing shop. A young boy's face is visible behind the oxen. Jackets are hanging from hooks outside the shop....
Print

G. Heileman Brewing Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the G. Heileman Brewing Company of La Crosse, Wisconsin, with a musketeer-like figure holding a bottle of beer in one hand and raising a glas...
Photograph

Men Posed Holding Logging Tools

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Description: Four men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen in the woods. Photographer's wagon in the background of C.R. Monroe, Traveling...
Photograph

Pawnee Bill's Circus Parade

Date: 07 28 1901
Description: View of Pawnee Bill's Circus Parade.
Photograph

Oxen Pulling a Cart

Date: 05 1902
Description: Two teams of yoked oxen pulling carts used to transport logs to, and lumber from sawmills. There is a large, wood frame two-story building in the backgroun...
Photograph

Man on Ox-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man using an ox-drawn McCormick binder in a field. Another man is standing behind the mower on the far right.
Photograph

Man on Ox-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of a man using an ox-drawn McCormick binder in a field.
Photograph

Man Using Ox-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across harvested section of field towards a man using an ox-drawn binder. Two men wearing suits are standing on the left, and one is gesturing with a ...
Photograph

Man Using Ox-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man using an ox-drawn McCormick binder in a field.
Photograph

Team of Oxen in Luck

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Description: Team of oxen pulling a sled loaded with large sacks on a snowy street in front of a General Merchandise Dry Goods store. Two men stand at the back of the s...
Photograph

Man Using Tractor in Field in India

Date: 1970
Description: Elevated view of a man using a MRA 2940 International tractor in a field in India. Behind him in the field a man is walking with oxen. On the edge of the f...
Photograph

Oxen in Harness with Haul of Logs

Date: 1887
Description: Seven men are posing on or near a haul of logs loaded onto a sled. Some of the men are holding cant hooks. A team of oxen are yoked to the sled.
Photograph

Workers with a Haul of Logs

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Description: Group portrait of seven men posing on or around a pile of logs. Some of the men are carrying cant hooks. The logs are being hauled on a sled pulled by two ...
Photograph

Supply Transport through Constantinople

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Description: Supply of food and weapons is transported through Constantinople during the early days of the war.
Photograph

Five Binders Lined Up in Field

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Description: View across field towards five men driving five McCormick binders drawn by teams of two oxen, and teams of two horses. There is a man on horseback on the f...
Postcard

Gene Murray's Ox Team

Date: 1957
Description: Text on front reads: "Amos and Andy, Gene Murray's Ox Team, Reedsburg, Wis." Mr. Murray posing with his oxen team and covered wagon. Text on the wagon cove...
Photograph

Oxen Team Pulling Farm Machinery

Date: 1907
Description: A man is posing standing on a cart behind two oxen, who are pulling a piece of farm equipment. A brick house is in the background, and behind the house is ...

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