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F-12 Tractor and African American Field Workers

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: African American field worker levels the ground with a McCormick-Deering F-12 tractor and a rotary scraper in preparation for planting a new crop of celery...
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McKay Nursery Field

Date: 05 07 1937
Description: McKay Nursery field with men planting, and horse teams pulling cultivators.
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Seed Corn Experiment

Date: 1926
Description: Field of seed corn experiment.
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

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...
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Butch Quirk uses Cub Cadet as Desk Top

Date: 04 1964
Description: Butch Quirk with a Cub Cadet tractor. Original magazine caption states: "Scientific farmer Quirk uses tractor hood as desk top as he records variety of cor...
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Butch Quirk Fills the Hopper

Date: 04 1964
Description: Thirteen-year-old John "Butch" Quick is photographed filling the hopper of his Cub Cadet tractor with fertilizer.
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Planting Cotton with Farmall H

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man using a McCormick Farmall H tractor with a forward-mounted cotton planter to work in a field. The original caption reads: "'Flat' planti...
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Farmall M Planting Cotton

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a McCormick Farmall M tractor with a forward-mounted cotton planter to work in a field. The original caption reads: "...
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Sloping Farmland

Date: 05 17 1966
Description: View uphill towards a farmer planting crops on a treeless slope which rises just beyond him, with a cloudy sky above. Various grasses are growing in the fo...
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Man Seated on P&O Planter

Date: 1919
Description: Portrait of a man seated on a P&O planter.
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.
Print

John Deere Farm Tractor

Date: 1928
Description: Back cover of a booklet advertising the John Deere farm tractor featuring an illustration of a man using the tractor at center, surrounded by a decorative ...
Photograph

Workers Planting in Rice Field

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of workers in a rice field planting rice. Carrie Chapman Catt described the conditions of rice plantations in her journal from h...
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Planting at Ten Chimneys

Date: 
Description: Alfred Lunt driving a tractor pulling Ben Perkins in a cart. Mr. Perkins is likely seeding the furrows.
Photograph

Farmall H Tractor with H-100 Corn Planter

Date: 1939
Description: Rear view of a man driving a Farmall H tractor with H-100 corn planter in a field.
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Man Using Farmall C Tractor and C-635 Six-Row Planter

Date: 1948
Description: Elevated view of a man using a Farmall C tractor. He is planting carrot in 12-inch rows with a C-635 six-row, rear mounted planter.
Photograph

Man Plowing Field with Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a man plowing a field with a tractor.
Photograph

Man Driving Titan 10-20 Tractor Pulling Corn Planter

Date: 1918
Description: View from rear of a man driving a Titan 10-20 tractor pulling a corn planter in a field.
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Man on Horse-Drawn Planter

Date: 06 16 1925
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man on a horse-drawn planter in a field.

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