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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...
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Moguah Unit Planting Crew

Date: 1930
Description: Moguah Unit Planting Crew at work.
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Nicolet National Forest

Date: 01 01 1934
Description: Man in uniform leaning up against the base of a large tree.
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Horse-Drawn McCormick-Deering Grain Drill

Date: 06 18 1937
Description: Mr. Shansky using a 20-run four-horse McCormick-Deering grain drill on his 300-acre farm in Transcona, Manitoba, Canada.
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Farm Wife Brings Lunch to Her Husband in the Field

Date: 1970
Description: Ingrid Bengtson bringing lunch to the field to help her husband, Norman, get the planting done faster. They are having lunch on top of the McCormick Intern...
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Farmer with Horse-Drawn Corn Planter

Date: 1916
Description: Farmer operating an International Harvester corn planter with fertilizer attachment drawn by two horses or donkeys. The photograph was taken for, or compil...
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"No More Crooked Rows"

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Description: Inside spread of 4-page advertising brochure for Fuller & Johnson Mfg. Co. Limited with a chromolithograph of a Bonanza Forge Drop planter, "The only perfe...
Book or Pamphlet

CB&Q Corn Planter Catalog

Date: 1916
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's CB&Q line of corn planters showing a farmer in a field with a horse-drawn planter.
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Farmer in Field with Horse-Drawn Corn Planter

Date: 06 16 1926
Description: Rear view of farmer LeRoy Hansen in a field with a horse-drawn McCormick-Deering corn planter.
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Planting Corn with Farmall Tractor

Date: 06 17 1927
Description: Farmer planting corn with a Farmall tractor and corn planter on the farm of D.H. Hummell.
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Planting Corn with Farmall F-30 Tractor and Four-Row Planter

Date: 06 01 1936
Description: Farmer Glenn Brutus planting corn with a Firestone-equipped Farmall F-30 tractor and a four-row McCormick-Deering planter.
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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.
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Farmer with Walking Planter

Date: 1925
Description: Farmer in a field walking behind a P&O planter drawn by a mule. There is an automobile on a road near a house behind a fence in the background.
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Farmall C Tractor and C-220 Checkrow Planter

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a farmer in a field operating a McCormick Farmall C tractor with a mounted C-220 checkrow planter.
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McCormick Farmall C and Farmall H Tractors

Date: 1949
Description: Men are operating McCormick Farmall tractors with seeding attachments. One tractor is a Farmall C and the other is a Farmall H.
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International 309 Utility Tractor

Date: 
Description: Color photograph of a man operating an International 309 utility tractor and planter.
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Farmall 140 Tractor with Planter

Date: 
Description: View towards a man operating a Farmall 140 tractor with attached planter in a field.
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

Farmall Drawn Planters

Date: 07 13 1928
Description: Rear view of a man driving a tractor pulling a planter in a field.
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Lewis Flisram, Madison Parks Caretaker

Date: 07 05 1945
Description: Lewis Flisram, age 79, started working for the Madison Parks Commission in 1897. He worked there until 1911. He left to work for his mother for a period of...

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