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Painting

Logging Scene

Date: 
Description: A two-man team of sawers work on a massive tree with a crosscut saw (right) while a man with an an axe waits to trim branches. The trunks are then cut down...
Photograph

Big Falls Logging Crew

Date: 1900
Description: Four men from a logging crew posing standing in the snow with teams of horses and oxen.
Poster

Chattanooga Plow Advertising Poster

Date: 1929
Description: South American advertising poster for Chattanooga brand plows distributed by the International Harvester Export Company. Shows a color illustration of a C...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing a "reaper used by ancient Gauls, First Century." The "reaper" is frame...
Photograph

Ox Carts with Furs

Date: 
Description: A view showing a line of ox carts loaded with furs leaving the Hudson Bay Company's Post to make the 16 mile trip to avoid the rapids on Slave River. Housi...
Photograph

Oxen Pulling Logs

Date: 1890
Description: Men posed with a team of four oxen harnessed to pull a loaded logging sled.
Photograph

Hauling Logs With Oxen

Date: 1880
Description: Lumberjacks hauling logs with several teams of oxen.
Postcard

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:...
Photograph

Lumberjacks Moving Logs with Ox Cart

Date: 
Description: Lumberjacks standing next to an ox cart loaded with logs for use in sawmills associated with International Harvester.
Postcard

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

Logging Crew

Date: 1895
Description: A Knapp, Stout & Company crew with J. Bracklin (in fur coat), logging superintendent.
Photograph

African American Farmer Hauling Corn to Market

Date: 
Description: Farmer hauling corn to market with an ox-driven wagon. Original caption notes that oxen were used considerably in the south for motive power.
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...
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

Railroad Construction

Date: 1890
Description: Men building a culvert on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Westerm railway. In the background both horses and oxen teams are being used.
Photograph

Pine River & Stevens Point RR Locomotive

Date: 03 1876
Description: Side view of the locomotive purchased by the Pine River and Stevens Point Railroad, being hauled over land from Lone Rock to Richland Center. In the backgr...
Photograph

Farm Family and Farm

Date: 1889
Description: A farm family posing in front of farm buildings and farmhouse. The young daughters are wearing matching dresses. Men in the background are standing with a ...
Photograph

Farmer Skidding Logs with Oxen

Date: 
Description: Farmer skidding logs with a team of oxen.
Book or Pamphlet

Case Centennial Plow Brochure

Date: 1937
Description: Front cover of a brochure advertising the Case Centennial Plow. The brochure is titled "Plows on Parade" and tells the history of the steel plow business t...
Painting

Bridge Over Mississippi River

Date: 1891
Description: A painting of the new (as of 1891) bridge over the Mississippi River in La Crosse. The bridge was built by the Clinton Bridge Co. Captions read: "North sid...

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