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McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Advertising Card

Date: 1886
Description: Front of a card advertising the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Illustrations show "primitive" harvesting methods alongside a McCormick binder and a ...
Poster

International Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Advertising poster for International motor trucks with color illustration of a truck and ghostly images of pioneers on horseback and oxen-drawn Conestoga w...
Magazine or Periodical

Case Centennial Magazine Advertisement

Date: 1942
Description: Magazine advertisement celebrating the centennial of J.I. Case Co. of Racine, Wisconsin. Features a photograph of a contemporary tractor pulling a modern p...
Magazine or Periodical

Case Centennial Magazine Advertisement

Date: 1942
Description: Magazine advertisement celebrating the centennial of J. I. Case Co. of Racine, Wisconsin. Features a photograph of man baling hay using contemporary tracto...
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View of Sparta, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: View on North Water Street, showing the building in which the Bank of Sparta was founded. A man is walking beside a oxen pulling a covered wagon.
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Deering Trade Card

Date: 1881
Description: Advertising card for Deering harvesting machinery showing young boys operating a grain binder drawn by oxen. The caption reads "the Deering binder at work ...
Photograph

International TD-14A Crawler Tractor Bulldozer

Date: 1952
Description: Man moving earth in South Africa with an International TD-14A crawler tractor equipped with a Bucyrus-Erie bulldozer. A man with oxen and a "primitive" ex...
Photograph

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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Cottage Inn

Date: 1835
Description: Two-story home with sloping roof. One man is whipping a team of eight cattle while another man drives the plow behind them. To the left stands a man near a...
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Paul Bunyan and Babe

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Description: Paul Bunyan walking with an axe over his shoulder and whistling. He is accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox who is carrying several people on his back.
Photograph

Farmer and Ox-Drawn Mower Near Lake

Date: 1899
Description: A farmer is standing next to a mower pulled by two oxen in a field next to a lake.
Photograph

Man Operating Ox-Drawn Mower in Field

Date: 1899
Description: A man wearing dress clothes and holding a raised switch is driving an ox-drawn mower down a path in a field. The man is also wearing a bowler or derby hat ...
Photograph

"Yankee Farmer" and Oxen

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Description: A "Yankee Farmer" with two oxen and a cart near dilapidated farm buildings. Caption reads: "Yankee Farmer, Willimantic, Conn."
Photograph

Aunt Charlotte

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Description: An old woman known as Aunt Charlotte in an ox-drawn cart on fortress grounds. Caption reads: "Aunt Charlotte, Fortress Monroe, VA."
Photograph

On the River Road

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Description: Three people pose in and around an ox cart on a country road. Caption reads: "On the River Road."
Photograph

Ox Cart

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Description: Two men and two women pose on an ox cart. Caption reads: "A Florida Conveyance."
Photograph

Ox Team Hauling Wool

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Description: A man and child stand near an ox team hauling wagons loaded with bags of wool in New Mexico. Caption reads: "Ox Team Hauling Wool, New Mexico."
Photograph

Georgia Ferry and Ox Cart

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Description: A composite of two photographs depicting an ox cart and a Georgia ferry. The top photograph shows a small cable ferry crossing a river, carrying a horse-dr...
Photograph

Ox-drawn Cart

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Description: Cart drawn by two oxen on a tree-lined dirt road. The driver holds a stick and the cart holds lumber and rope. Caption reads, "'The Village Express' Rutlan...
Photograph

Ox-drawn Wagon

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Description: View of man and children on a tree-lined dirt road with an ox-drawn wagon. The man stands in the foreground holding a whip with the children just behind hi...

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