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Dr. Babcock with Butterfat Tester

Date: 1926
Description: Dr. Stephen Babcock with an electric centrifuge butterfat tester.
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Farmer and Computer

Date: 01 27 1960
Description: A farmer observes the processed results of the workings of an early computer or data machine. The machine was used to process and to organize data on a her...
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Farmall M Leveling Gravel at Hinsdale Farm

Date: 1949
Description: Worker leveling gravel with a McCormick-Deering Farmall M tractor and a no. 7 angle dozer at International Harvester's Hinsdale farm and testing facility.
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Experimental Combine Harvesting Grain

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view of men harvesting grain with a McCormick-Deering 12 foot experimental combine (harvester-thresher) pulled by a Farmall M tractor. There is a ...
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Testing Milking Machines

Date: 11 10 1937
Description: Three male workers testing the "Clean Easy Milker" milking machines at the Ben H. Anderson Mfg. Company, 3220 Atwood Avenue.
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George Trayer with Plywood Panel

Date: 06 23 1933
Description: U.S. Forest Products engineer, George W. Trayer, in the laboratory with a plywood panel, newly developed to provide strength and durability in construction...
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Selecting Seed Corn in Field

Date: 10 02 1926
Description: Four men selecting seed corn ears in a cornfield.
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Field Testing Experimental Cotton Picker

Date: 03 16 1927
Description: Engineering photograph of men field testing an experimental cotton picker pulled by a Farmall tractor.
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Limited Production Motor Cultivator

Date: 06 12 1917
Description: Engineering photograph of a man field testing a limited production motor cultivator. Original caption reads: "... the 1916 motor cultivator with the additi...
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Experimental Combine with Farmall M Tractor

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view of men field testing an experimental 12 foot McCormick-Deering combine (harvester-thresher) with a Farmall M tractor. Mountains are in the ba...
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Experimental McCormick-Deering Combine and Farmall M Tractor

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view of men field testing an experimental McCormick-Deering 12 foot combine with a Farmall M tractor.
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Experimental McCormick Motor Grain Binder

Date: 1919
Description: Man operating an experimental McCormick motor-driven grain binder in a field.
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Reverse Drive Tractor with Hay Rake

Date: 1921
Description: Man operating an experimental(?) reverse drive tractor with mounted hay rake in a field.
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Experimental Four-Wheel Rubber Tire Tractor

Date: 05 25 1954
Description: Man standing next to an experimental four wheel rubber tire tractor inside an International Harvester engineering(?) facility.
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Experimental MRS Special Tractor

Date: 1947
Description: Engineering photograph of a man sitting on an experimental International MRS Special tractor.
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First Self-Propelled Combine by IH

Date: 1942
Description: Man testing the model 123-SP (self-propelled) combine (harvester-thresher) in a field. The machine was International Harvester's first self-propelled combi...
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Farmer Harvesting Corn with McCormick Corn Picker

Date: 1954
Description: Color photograph of a man harvesting corn with a McCormick corn picker on International Harvester's experimental farm.
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Farmall F-22 Tractor

Date: 1938
Description: Man plowing a field with an experimental Farmall F-22 tractor.
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Sheep on Agricultural Campus

Date: 1900
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural campus with sheep and a dairy barn in the background.
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B.B. Stoller Tending Mushroom Garden

Date: 09 19 1944
Description: B.B. Stoller tending the University of Wisconsin mushroom garden in the "hole in the ground" which is a bricked and vaulted recess located in the hillside ...

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