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International Harvester Postcard — Mexico

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard of farmers operating grain binders in Mexico. Includes a color illustration of two grain binders pulled by oxen or cattle. Original caption reads:...
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International Harvester Postcard — Romania

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard featuring a color illustration of men in suits and farm laborers in a field next to a grain binder drawn by four oxen. Original caption reads: "Ro...
Photograph

Prison Convict Hauls Wood with Ox-Driven Wagon

Date: 03 08 1915
Description: View of a prisoner, who has a wooden leg, hauling "lighter" wood from the pine woods and Turpentine Orchard to camp with an ox-drawn wagon. Original captio...
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Women and Children in Field with Walking Plow

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: Two women and two young girls in a field with an ox-driven walking plow. Original caption reads: "This picture was not taken in Egypt nor India nor Africa ...
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Double Yoke of Oxen Pulling Wagon

Date: 02 09 1915
Description: A double yoke of oxen are pulling an empty wagon down the road while a group of people is looking on in the background. There is a stream of water going th...
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New Hope School Renovation

Date: 02 09 1915
Description: A group of students and teachers stands behind teams of oxen pulling a wagon through a wooded area in front of New Hope School during its renovation after ...
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Logging with Oxen

Date: 03 13 1915
Description: A team of ten oxen pulling a load of cut logs on a wagon along a dirt road. A man is standing on the road behind the team of oxen, and in the background ar...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — France

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard distributed by International Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a harvesting scene: a grain binder pulled by ox in the fields of ...
Photograph

Harvesting Scene in Italy

Date: 1915
Description: Harvesting scene taking place in Italy featuring oxen-drawn machinery and a group of men near trees.
Print

Why Best Tractors are Tracklayers

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of an advertisement for Best tractors featuring a color illustration of a man using a plow pulled by two oxen to work in a field. The headline ...
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Olga Petrova and Mahlon Hamilton rural scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In a heavily retouched scene still for the silent drama "The Black Butterfly," Sonia Smirnov (played by Olga Petrova) and Alan Hall (Mahlon Hamilton) stand...
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Jacob Plow

Date: 1910
Description: From Carrie's journal from Palestine: "There were many terraced hills, covered with olive orchards. Men, women and children were gathering the olives, clim...
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Hemp Being Loaded into Wagons

Date: 1910
Description: Men are loading braids of hemp into wagons drawn by oxen.
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Ox-Powered Cane Mill

Date: 1914
Description: Ox-powered cane mill. Two men are in the background, under a roofed enclosure. The ox is tethered to the mill in the center.
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Ox-Drawn Wagons

Date: 1915
Description: View down road towards people with two ox-drawn wagons. There are large buildings and a windmill in the background.
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Ox-Drawn Binders in Field

Date: 1915
Description: Large group of people watching ox-drawn binders at work in a field. Men, women and children are standing and watching people working near the binders. Moun...
Poster

Comité Americain pour les Régions Dévastées de France

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a mother, two children, and a grandfather. A woman in white is leading the woman. In the background is a large American flag...
Postcard

Going to Town

Date: 09 09 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Going to Town, Rib Lake, Wis." A farm couple driving their wagon, pulled by two oxen, into town. The wagon has wooden wheels and is l...

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