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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...
Print

"No More Crooked Rows"

Date: 
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.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Planting Corn on Bainridge Farm

Date: 05 20 1924
Description: A man changing the check wire while planting corn on Bainridge Farm.
Photograph

Deering Grain Drill

Date: 1910
Description: A farmer is walking behind a horse-drawn Deering grain drill.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Corn Planter

Date: 1910
Description: A man uses a horse-drawn planter (most likely a corn planter) in a field near International Harvester's Richmond Works factory.
Photograph

Man Using Walking Planter

Date: 05 02 1925
Description: Man using walking planter pulled by a mule in a field.
Photograph

Man with Walking Planter

Date: 05 02 1925
Description: Man with horse-drawn walking planter in a field. A small dog sits in a furrow nearby on the right.
Photograph

Man using Horse-Drawn Walking Planter

Date: 05 02 1925
Description: Man using walking planter pulled by a horse through a field. A small dog sits in a furrow nearby on the right.
Photograph

Men with Walking Planter

Date: 05 02 1925
Description: A man using a P&O walking planter pulled by one horse in a field. In the background another man works using a walking plow pulled by two horses near a row ...
Photograph

Man using Horse-Drawn Walking Planter

Date: 1920
Description: A man is using a walking planter pulled by a work horse or mule through a field.
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

Planting in Field

Date: 05 23 1924
Description: A man is using a planter drawn by a team of two horses to work in a field at Bainridge Farm. A fence and what appears to be a wagon bed are in the backgrou...
Photograph

Farmer Planting in Field

Date: 1921
Description: A farmer is using a planter drawn by a team of two horses to work in a farm field.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Deering Seeding Equipment Catalog Cover

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick-Deering seeding equipment. Features two photographs of men using horse-drawn and tractor driven grain drills.
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

Trout Lake Nursery, First Furrow

Date: 05 1911
Description: View across field towards a number of men working to clear a field. There is a team of horses pulling a plow to create a furrow, with a pine forest in the ...
Book or Pamphlet

Planet Jr. Implement Catalogue Cover

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of the Planet Jr. catalog. Features an illustration of a man and young girl (about 5 or 6 years old) in a garden pushing a Planet Jr. Garden Drill to...
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.

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