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Poster

South American Grain Drill Advertising Poster

Date: 1930
Description: South American advertising poster for Deering horse-drawn and tractor-drawn grain drills distributed by International Harvester Company Argentina. Imprinte...
Photograph

Alexander Lake's Nursery

Date: 1896
Description: A boy and a man are holding up small white pine trees, while workers are planting them at Alexander Lake's nursery. In the background are horses and wagons...
Photograph

Forest Nursery

Date: 1951
Description: Aerial view of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company nursery.
Photograph

African American Farm Laborer at Stovall's Plantation

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Young man sitting in a planter drawn by two mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall.
Photograph

International L-120 Truck, W-4 Tractor and Grain Drill

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of two farmers working in a field with a truck, tractor and grain drill. One man is unloading bags of seed from an International L-1...
Photograph

Belle Case La Follette Working in the Garden

Date: 1907
Description: Belle Case La Follette hoeing the garden at Maple Bluff Farm in early spring. Two of her children are working with her, apparently planting seeds, and one ...
Book or Pamphlet

Hoosier Corn Planters and Drills

Date: 1903
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Hoosier corn planters and drills manufactured by the American Seeding-Machine Company. The company was later purchased ...
Photograph

Hopson Plantation

Date: 1942
Description: Several buildings on the Hopson Planting Company's plantation.
Photograph

Farmall H with Cotton Planter

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a McCormick Farmall H tractor with a forward cotton planter to work in a field. The original caption reads: "'Blackla...
Photograph

Super A Tractor with Cotton Planter

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a Farmall Super A tractor with a cotton planter attachment to plant in a field. The original caption reads: "'Bed' pl...
Painting

Spring Planting

Date: 
Description: A farmer is planting corn using the planter wire method.
Photograph

Planter with Bean Attachment

Date: 06 15 1926
Description: A man is driving a team of two horses who are pulling a McCormick-Deering planter with a bean attachment across a field while planting corn and soy beans. ...
Photograph

Plowing on an IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 04 28 1932
Description: View across field on an International Harvester Company farm towards a group of men standing and watching a plowing demonstration. Several barns and other ...
Photograph

Children at Corn Germination Lesson

Date: 1913
Description: Class of children gathered outdoors around a table for a corn germination lesson. Original caption reads: "after the rag dolls are prepared they are immers...
Photograph

Wagons with Cotton Seed

Date: 11 29 1915
Description: Elevated view of farmers driving horse-drawn wagons carrying cotton seed along a rural dirt road. Farm buildings are on a hill in the background.
Book or Pamphlet

Samson Corn Planters Brochure

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by the Samson Tractor Company, a division of General Motors Corporation, to advertise corn planters.
Book or Pamphlet

Model 12-20 Yuba Ball Tread Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Yuba Model 12-20 tractor, featuring an elevated view of two men using a Yuba half-track style crawler tractor to p...
Photograph

Men Planting Seedlings

Date: 
Description: Man and a boy posing standing and holding white pine seedlings in a field. Four men are crouching in a row planting the seedlings in a field. In the backgr...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Seeder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man using a horse-drawn seeder in a field. Trees and farm buildings are in the far background.
Photograph

Men Using Farmall M Tractor with Four-Row Cotton Planter

Date: 1939
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of two men using a Farmall M tractor with a four-row cotton planter in a field. Farm buildings are in the far background ...

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