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Farmers at Farm Auction

Date: 1954
Description: Group of farmers observe and participate in a farm auction.
Photograph

Elephant Posing on International Cub Cadet

Date: 1967
Description: Shirley, a half-ton elephant, poses on an International Cub Cadet 122 lawn tractor with IH dealer Carl Kelton looking on. Several cub cadets are in the bac...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler Demonstration

Date: 10 06 1937
Description: C.L. Thompson, a McCormick-Deering dealer explains a milk cooler, which is loaded on a trailer hauled by an International truck, to Wayne Wakefield. Both m...
Photograph

International Truck with Trailer

Date: 1939
Description: Two men speak to one another as a woman wearing an apron enters a trailer used by the Ohio Edison Company. The trailer is attached to an International D-2 ...
Photograph

Mogul 8-16 Tractor and Plow

Date: 1915
Description: Man plowing a field with a Mogul 8-16 tractor.
Photograph

Selling Peaches

Date: 1923
Description: A customer offers payment for fruit to a woman sitting at a small desk inside an orchard shed. Multiple rows of bushel baskets filled with peaches are line...
Photograph

Selling Peaches at the Shed

Date: 09 1923
Description: Men looking through baskets of peaches in an open shed, where fruit was sold by the bushel. Others stand nearby. Original caption reads: "Selling peaches a...
Book or Pamphlet

Heider Tractor Farm Efficiency Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Interior spread of a brochure produced by the Rock Island Plow Company to advertise Heider tractors. Four photographs of the tractor in use are accompanied...
Book or Pamphlet

Remy Tractor Division Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by the Remy Electric Company's Tractor Equipment Division advertising "An Easier Day's Work" through the use of farm mac...
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

The Farmer's Burden

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of a booklet produced by the Standard Detroit Tractor Company entitled: "The Farmer's Burden." The cover features an illustration depicting a f...
Print

Townsend Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1916
Description: Advertisement for the Townsend heavy duty 12-20 horsepower tractor featuring three photographs of the tractor at work on a farm along with testimonies from...
Print

Waterloo Boy Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of a booklet produced by the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company to advertise the Waterloo Boy one-man tractor. The Waterloo Gasoline Engine Compa...
Book or Pamphlet

Wichita Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Cover of a Spanish-language booklet advertising Wichita tractors, featuring an illustration of a man using a tractor and disk harrow in a farm field.
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin Farm Tractor Booklet

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet produced by the Wisconsin Farm Tractor Sales Company featuring a color illustration of a farmer working a field with ...
Print

Yuba Ball Tread Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Back cover of a booklet advertising the Yuba ball tread tractor. The color illustration depicts a rear view of a man using a tractor to work a hillside far...
Book or Pamphlet

Moline-Universal Tractor At Work

Date: 1921
Description: Interior pages of a pamphlet advertising the Moline-Universal tractor featuring photographs of the tractor at work on farms.
Book or Pamphlet

Kardell 4-in-1 Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Pamphlet advertising the Kardell 4-in-1 tractor, featuring a photograph of the machinery as well as inset illustrations of the tractor in use on a farm.
Postcard

Winnebago Dairy Farm

Date: 10 18 1939
Description: Postcard submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. On the front of the postcard is the slogan: You can 'whip' our cream but you can't...
Photograph

Ziemer Auction

Date: 09 1979
Description: The Ziemer auction is being held at the Dog's farm on County P.

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