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Farmyard with Implements

Date: 1878
Description: Family in farmyard with farm implements, including a grain seeder and a threshing machine. Men are standing on top of hay in a wagon. Farm buildings and a ...
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Halvor Nerison Hauge's Farm

Date: 1874
Description: People in a field standing around a mower, with a farmstead and windmill in background, looking west. Halvor Nerison Hauge (1830-1906) purchased the farm i...
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Horse-Drawn Reaper with Windmill

Date: 1905
Description: Two men, two women and a boy harvesting grain with an early McCormick reaper. A windmill is in the background. The photograph may have been a staged re-ena...
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Poster Illustrating Old and New Harvesting Methods

Date: 05 15 1928
Description: Poster or display board illustrating the differences between "old" and "new" methods of harvesting grain. Includes images illustrating harvesting methods b...
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Workers and Foremen (?) Posing in Field with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A group of men in suits, presumably foremen or supervisors, and several men in work clothes, are in a grain field. Most of the men in suits are either sitt...
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Man and Child with Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe is raking cut stalks from a binder as a boy is riding a horse pulling the machine across a field. A windmill is stan...
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Farming with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man using a McCormick grain binder pulled by horses to work in a field. In the background is a barn, windmill and several other farm buildings.
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Farming with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using a McCormick grain binder pulled by horses to work in a field. In the background is a barn, windmill and several other farm buildings.
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McCormick-Deering 10-20 Pulling P&0 Little Wonder

Date: 05 04 1928
Description: Three-quarter rear view of man pulling a P&O (Parlin and Orendorff) Little Wonder plow with a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor. Decals are on the tractor an...
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Grain Stacks

Date: 09 09 1895
Description: View across field of two men leaning against an enormous stack of grain on the farm of August Schmidt. There are many more stacks of grain leading into the...
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Threshing Crew

Date: 1900
Description: Group of seven men, each holding a pitchfork, standing in a yard. Front row, left to right: Herman Bentert, Herman Riebe, Henry Burchardt. Back row, left ...
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Man Driving Farmall H Tractor with Disk Harrow

Date: 1941
Description: Rear view of a man, Harold Mills, driving a Farmall H tractor with a 9 foot McCormick-Deering disk harrow in a field. William Tobin farm. Farm buildings ar...
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Man on Tractor Pulling Disk Harrow

Date: 10 31 1917
Description: Left side profile view of a man driving a tractor pulling a disk harrow in a field. In the background is a silo, barn, windmill and farmhouse.
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Farmall Mounted Cultivator

Date: 06 1926
Description: Left side view of a man using a Farmall mounted cultivator.
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Horse-Drawn Cultivator

Date: 07 20 1927
Description: View across field towards a man riding on a horse-drawn cultivator. There is a farm with silo's and a windmill among trees in the background.
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Horse-Drawn Cultivator

Date: 07 20 1927
Description: View across field towards a man riding on a horse-drawn cultivator. There is a farm with silo's and a windmill among trees in the background.
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Harvesting Corn on Windy Day

Date: 12 10 1927
Description: View from front of a man on a Farmall tractor with a corn picker working in a field. There is a wagon on the left. Farm buildings are in the background.
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Tractor Belt-Driving Ensilage Cutter

Date: 12 29 1928
Description: A tractor in the foreground is belt-driving an ensilage cutter near a barn. Men are working on wagons to feed the cutter. There is a windmill behind the tr...
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Man Driving Farmall Tractor Pulling Rotary Hoes

Date: 08 25 1928
Description: Front view of a man driving a Farmall tractor pulling rotary hoes in a field. Farm buildings are in the background.
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Family in front of House

Date: 07 15 1929
Description: A man and women and two children are posing in front of a fence surrounding a small house. There is a tractor, an automobile, agricultural implements, and ...

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