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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

Planting and Digging Potatoes the McCormick-Deering Way

Date: 1935
Description: Cover of a catalog about "Planting and Digging Potatoes the McCormick-Deering Way." The cover has two photographs of farmers in the field with Farmall trac...
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

Reforestation with 15-30 Tractor

Date: 1931
Description: Men use a McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor and a "reforestation machine" as they plant trees for timber production.
Photograph

Farmer Filling Seed Planting Trough

Date: 
Description: A farmer pours seeds from a canvas bag into the trough of a seed planting machine. A farmhouse, white picket fence, and picnic table with chairs are visibl...
Photograph

Planting Pine Tree Seedlings

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Description: Four men prepare pine tree seedlings for planting in an open field. One man drives a small tractor, while two men stand behind. Another man sits on a tree ...
Photograph

Planting Norway Pine Seedlings

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Description: Floyd Everett drives a tractor as Franklin Kempf plants Norway Pine seedlings using a tree planting trailer hitched to the back of the tractor.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Corn Planter Brochure

Date: 1939
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering corn planters featuring photos of seeding disks and the with the text: "Planters for the Corn Belt."...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Seeding Equipment Brochure

Date: 1939
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering seeding equipment, featuring a photograph of a farmer operating a Farmall tractor and grain drill in...
Photograph

Man in Sunflower Field with Sign

Date: 1932
Description: Man wearing a hat, standing in a sunflower field next to a sign that reads “Date of Planting Sunflower, Date Planted, ___ __ ___, May 21 – 21910 LBS, May 2...
Print

Chas. Beard Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Chas. (Charles) Beard, a grower of fancy rural New York seed potatoes from Elcho, Wisconsin, with a duotone image of a potato, and "One of My...
Print

A.C. Bennett & Son Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of A.C. Bennett & Son, growers of and dealers in cultivated cranberries from Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, with a two-color illustration of cranberri...
Print

P&O No.124 Planter Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the P&O No.124 Two-Row Mealie Drill Planter, featuring an illustration of the No.124 as well as information on Internat...
Print

German American "Nitragin" Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the German-American "Nitragin" Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, manufacturer of a trademarked nitrogen "soil inoculator," with a center backg...
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

Samson Corn Planter Brochure

Date: 1920
Description: Interior page of a brochure produced by the Samson Tractor Company, a division of General Motors Corporation, to advertise Samson corn planters. The page f...
Photograph

Spring Planting

Date: 04 1987
Description: "Paul O. Koll readied his hilly terrain for spring planting."
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...
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 ...
Book or Pamphlet

Andrews Tractor One Man Outfit

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Andrews Tractor: "one-man outfit", a four-cylinder, three plow tractor with ten horse power on the draw bar and t...

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