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Madison Plow Company

Date: 1916
Description: Madison Plow Company.
Manuscript

Prairie Breaking Plow

Date: 1894
Description: Illustration of a "Prairie Breaking Plow" of the 1840s. Includes the text: "Prairie Breaking Plow of 50 Years Ago."
Photograph

Uncle Sam Plowing

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Description: Man wearing an Uncle Sam costume plowing with a team of horses for an agricultural extension demonstration. It is likely the event took place during World...
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Farmers Union Member Plowing

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Description: A youthful member of the Farmers Union, working a manual plow.
Photograph

Man Plowing Field

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Description: Man with two horses plowing a field.
Print

Cottage Inn

Date: 1835
Description: Two-story home with sloping roof. One man is whipping a team of eight cattle while another man drives the plow behind them. To the left stands a man near a...
Manuscript

First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Roster

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Description: Commemorative Civil War roster of First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, Wisconsin Hussars Squadron "G." Depicts "Our Country as it was in 1860" with ...
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Man on Plow

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Description: Man sitting on plow driven by a tractor.
Photograph

Farming With Oxen

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Description: Farming in Cuba, with two oxen pulling a plow through the field, and a few wooden structures with thatched roofs in the background.
Photograph

Steam Plowing

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Description: A view of three men on a steam plow in a field. Caption reads: "Steam Plowing, Thomas Ranch, Chico, Cal."
Photograph

Steam Tractor

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Description: A view of two men on a steam tractor with a gang plow in a field. An automobile is behind the plow.
Photograph

Man Photographing Man Plowing a Field

Date: 1923
Description: A photographer is taking a photograph of another man plowing a field with a tractor. The tractor is probably a Fordson and the implement dealer was probabl...
Print

J.I. Case Plow Works Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the J.I. Case Plow Works of Racine, Wisconsin, with an elevated view of the company plant and a smaller scene set on a scroll of a man driving ...
Print

The Wisconsin Agriculturist Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of The Wisconsin Agriculturist, a weekly published in North Freedom, Wisconsin, with small background images of corn and wheat and a farmer plow...
Photograph

Men on Gang Plow in Horicon Marsh

Date: 09 08 1914
Description: Five men in hats and jackets, some holding the levers on a gang plow pulled by a Rumley tractor, pose for a group portrait. One man in work clothes stands ...
Photograph

Peasant Plowing with Horse

Date: 1918
Description: A peasant farmer plowing a field with the plow harnessed to a horse. The farmer's daughter is wearing a light-colored patterned dress and stands on the lef...
Print

Sod-Breakers Wood Engraving

Date: 1840
Description: Sod-breaker and five yoke of oxen plowing in front of the “Old Cottage Inn.” In the foreground a boat is on the shoreline.
Photograph

Men with Oxen

Date: 1855
Description: Sod-breaking plow with five yoke of oxen.
Print

Gale Manufacturing Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1878
Description: Front of advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man using a Gale Chilled Plow (Albion, Michigan) with a donkey in a field. Another man is wal...
Photograph

Jacob Plow

Date: 1910
Description: From Carrie's journal from Palestine: "There were many terraced hills, covered with olive orchards. Men, women and children were gathering the olives, clim...

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