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Peshtigo Fire

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Description: Families huddled in a field in the Sugar Bushes, attempting to escape the Peshtigo Fire.
Photograph

Spreading Lime

Date: 10 07 1927
Description: Two men using a Farmall Regular tractor, a farm wagon, and a lime spreader to spread lime in a field.
Photograph

Larry Giese, Louie Mueller, and Gerhard Zimmerman in Field

Date: 10 2002
Description: A retired John Deere employee, Larry Giese, 54, poses with family friends, Louie Mueller and Gerhard Zimmerman of Mayville, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Men Working in a Field

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Description: Ten men are working in a field. They are bending over and digging with shovels.
Photograph

Snow Scene

Date: 03 09 1936
Description: Slightly elevated winter scene with a large group of people digging a car out of the snow with shovels. The car can barely be seen in the center of the cro...
Print

Empire Mower and Reaper

Date: 1893
Description: Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “...
Photograph

Man with McCormick Combine 64

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Description: View looking down at a man, wearing safety glasses, sitting on the edge of a wagon holding a shovel. Behind him a McCormick combine 64 is emptying grain in...
Photograph

Man Using Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1947
Description: Elevated view looking down at a man using a Farmall Cub tractor to belt-drive a corn sheller. The man is inside the open doorway of a farm building bent ov...
Photograph

Thresher Operation in Field

Date: 08 07 1926
Description: Man standing on truck bed shoveling grain into a hopper. Behind him is a storage building. Another man is standing by machinery on the right.
Photograph

Corn Crib and Truck Near Storage Silo

Date: 08 13 1926
Description: A man is standing in the back of a truck bed shoveling something into a hopper. There is a child looking out of the rear window of the cab. The hopper is a...
Photograph

Farmall Tractor Pulling a Lime Spreader

Date: 10 07 1927
Description: Two men are holding with shovels to spread a pile of lime in a field. Behind them is a Farmall tractor pulling a lime spreader.
Photograph

Farmall Tractor Pulling a Lime Spreader

Date: 10 07 1927
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of a man driving a Farmall tractor pulling a lime spreader in a field. A man is standing in the lime spreader holding a ...
Postcard

Returning from Work

Date: 1904
Description: Text on front reads: "'Returning from Work.' St. John's Institute for Deaf Mutes. St. Francis, Wis." A group of six women holding implements and a nun are ...

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