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Alexander Legge

Date: 09 20 1923
Description: Alexander Legge (1866-1933) with a pitchfork full of hay at a Thresher demonstration at International Harvester's Hinsdale farm. Men are milling around a t...
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First Doncaster Farmall Tractor

Date: 1949
Description: First Farmall M tractor produced at International Harvester's Doncaster Works (factory) in England, Great Britain. Original caption reads: "First Doncaster...
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Threshing Scene

Date: 1905
Description: View across field of threshing scene, with steam-powered threshing machine and horse-drawn wagons. A large group of workers pose with men in suits. On the ...
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Market Square

Date: 1895
Description: Elevated view of Polish immigrants in Market Square with horse-drawn lumber sledges and hay wagons. Commercial buildings are in the background. A sign on o...
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Dr. Edward A. Bass Family on Pile of Hay

Date: 1895
Description: Dr. Edward A. Bass, photographer, seated in pile of hay holding his son, Cary. Seated in front of him are his wife, Ada, and daughter, Everetta. Horse iden...
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Two Men near Farmall Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: Two men, probably Gleb Ilyin (left) and C.O. Johnson, standing near a Farmall M tractor, some cows and a stack of hay. Ilyin is described in an original ca...
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Harvesting Hay with Hay Stacker

Date: 1895
Description: Outdoor group portrait of men harvesting hay. Two men are standing on top of a haystack with pitchforks filled with hay. A wooden counter-weighted hay stac...
Postcard

"Hay-making"

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard distributed by International Harvester Company of a photograph of a group of men loading bales of hay onto a horse-drawn wagon. Some of the men ap...
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Hanging Up the Corn

Date: 1914
Description: A man is hanging up strings of corn to demonstrate corn testing in front of a group of children (students?).
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Men and Boys Riding on Hay Wagon

Date: 1930
Description: View of two boys and a man sitting on top of a loaded hay wagon hitched up to one horse wearing a fly-net and blinders. A man in a suit is standing next to...
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Men with Horse-Drawn Hay Rake

Date: 1902
Description: Two men with a horse-drawn hay rake (or dump rake) in a field. One of the men is wearing a suit.
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Group Portrait with Vojta Masek and Charles Jonas

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait of four men sitting in front of a painted backdrop. From the left are Vojta Masek and Charles Jonas sitting on a bench. The men sitting on ...
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Four Men at the American Honey Producers League Convention

Date: 01 1928
Description: Group portrait of four men: C.L. Corkins, H.F. Wilson, C.W. Hartman, and Frank Rauchfuss standing in front of a display of honey in jars, and boxes of hone...
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Freight Yard

Date: 1910
Description: Men posing in the Winneconne Freight Yard. Some of the men stand and sit on two hay wagons, and three men stand on the ground, in front of a box car. Some ...
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Group Portrait of the Zemkes, Kruegers, and Bruetzmans

Date: 1923
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Bruetzmans, Kruegers, and Zemkes on the Krueger farm. The men, William Zemke, Edgar Krueger, Ernst Bruetzman, and August Brue...
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Gust Wendorf

Date: 10 20 1901
Description: Gust Wendorf standing on a small rock wall. A view of his farm is in the background.
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Reading the Newspaper with his Granddaughter

Date: 1935
Description: Alexander Krueger sitting outdoors in a wicker rocking chair with his granddaughter, Shirley, sitting in his lap, while he is reading a newspaper.
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Unidentified Residence and People

Date: 
Description: Outdoor group portrait of a family at their farm. The family is posing on the far right in the yard. On the left near the house is a windmill with a sign f...
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Men with Self Tying Hay Press in Field

Date: 09 11 1917
Description: Three men are working with a self tying hay press. There is a haystack in the background. A man wearing a suit is standing and watching near a stack of hay...
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Draft Horses

Date: 1920
Description: A man in a suit, with his back to the camera, is inspecting one of four draft horses. Other men are holding the horses, which are harnessed with horse coll...

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