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Dale Farm

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Description: A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption...
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Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back...
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Men Standing on Railroad Car

Date: 04 1911
Description: Group of men standing on and beside a rail car in front of the main construction office at the site of the Wisconsin River dam.
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Workers on Pile Driver

Date: 09 23 1911
Description: Workers standing on the barge-mounted, steam-driven pile driver at work on the coffer dam.
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Log Cabin

Date: 1914
Description: Log cabin known as the "haunted house" on Rock Island, remodeled by Chester Thordarson. There are three people sitting on the porch.
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Using the 1831 Reaper Replica on Set

Date: 1929
Description: A production still from the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reap...
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Clarence L. Dauberman Farm

Date: 07 31 1941
Description: People gathered around a Farmall Regular tractor on the farm of Clarence L. Dauberman. Original caption reads: "Sydney G. McAllister, chairman, executive c...
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Payday for Field Workers on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: A manager pays a field worker on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Mr. Monroe paying the field workers."
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Outdoor Group Portrait

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Description: An outdoor portrait of a large group of men, women, and children on a trail or path among trees. Possibly a family reunion or other gathering.
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Woman and Man with Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: A woman is sitting behind the wheel of a McCormick-Deering Farmall Cub tractor for a demonstration at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm....
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Portrait of Family and Dog

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a man and woman posed sitting with a young girl standing between them. A dog is lying on the ground. The woman and girl are wearing dre...
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Karst Family

Date: 1895
Description: Women bringing lunch to the men working in the field. The men are harvesting grain using a horse-drawn grain binder.
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Gauer and Bloch in Snowy Woods

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Description: Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch stand near a wooden bridge, holding canes, in a wooded area blanketed in snow. There is a hat on top of one of the posts on t...
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Men around Campfire

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A group of young men crowd around a campfire in the Sound Stage campground. In the background is a truck and a station wagon near men who appear to be sett...
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Man Dancing

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A man wearing a hat, shorts, and fringed vest, with a pipe strung onto hit belt loop, dances among a crowd of other audience members at the Sound Storm mus...
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Two Young Women Smoking in Campground

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Two young female audience members, one wearing a paisley print dress, the other wearing an American flag print dress, sit in the camping area smoking marij...
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Man and Woman with Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: A man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe is sitting in a field on a mower drawn by two horses. A woman is posing in front of the horses wearing a dress and h...
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Filling Farm Silo

Date: 1918
Description: Group of men use a Titan tractor to power a silo filler. There are several wagons and a barn. A few of the men may be observers from International Harveste...
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Men with Mogul 25 H.P. Tractor and Grain Binders

Date: 1912
Description: Men sit on a line of three McCormick grain binders hitched to a Mogul 25 h.p. tractor in a field. A young boy sits near a haystack in the foreground, and t...
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Tractor Powered Silo Filler

Date: 1915
Description: Two men wearing long overcoats and hats are standing directly behind a large tractor or stationary engine being used to power a belt-driven ensilage cutter...

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