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Green & Company Truck

Date: 04 30 1936
Description: Three men loading seed sacks into Green & Company Ford semi-trailer truck at Olds Seed Co. loading dock, 722 Williamson Street. Sign on truck reads: "Green...
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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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Loading Millet Seed onto International K-5 Truck

Date: 1941
Description: Man loading sacks of millet seed onto an International K-5 truck bound for a Chicago market. The truck was owned by Sowash Grain Co. Inc. of Crown Point, I...
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Blaney Farms Bookkeeper

Date: 05 05 1947
Description: Blaney Farms bookkeeper at a desk in the office.
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Madison Victory Gardener Purchasing Supplies

Date: 03 19 1944
Description: Alvan Rothermel, Glen Oak Hills, purchasing seed, labels and tools, for his Victory garden from Louis Schuster, manager of the L.L. Olds Seed Company, 720 ...
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Pelton Seed and Supply Company

Date: 04 14 1946
Description: Jack Pelton, operator of the Pelton Seed and Supply Company, 1004 South Park Street, shown with a customer in his store.
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Men Outside of Barclay & Son Wholesale Store

Date: 1910
Description: Two men standing on the sidewalk outside of the Barclay & Son Wholesale and Retail store. Another man is sitting in what is possibly an International H-21 ...
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International Model F Feed Delivery Truck

Date: 1916
Description: A man drives an International Model F (or 31) truck owned by a feed store. The truck is parked next to a building with a sign that reads: "Feed, hominy mea...
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Seed Company Grounds

Date: 06 23 1936
Description: Workers in trial fields of the Leonard Seed Company, with the processing plant in the background.
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Wisconsin Feed and Seed

Date: 08 22 1950
Description: View across lot towards men, a boy, and a dog standing beneath an overhang outside the Cambridge Feed and Seed Company. Parked nearby are a truck and an au...
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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.
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Filling Seed Corn Bags

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Description: Two men in barn use corn bagging machines to fill and seal canvas bags of seed corn. One kneels next to a machine to the left filling the bags while anothe...
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Farmer Filling Seed Planting Trough

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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...
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Seed Dealership Truck

Date: 03 21 1925
Description: A man loads a burlap bag of seeds onto the back of an International Model S truck owned by D.L. Ramsey & Son. The truck is parked along the curbside in fro...
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Kickapoo Farm Seeds, Label

Date: 01 20 1945
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Features the shape of the state of Wisconsin outlined in blue and filled in with yell...
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Cletrac Farming is Better Farming

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the Cletrac tank-type crawler tractor featuring illustrations of the machine in use in farm fields; the image at left depicts plowing whi...
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Sembradora

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Description: Spanish language advertisement for an International Harvester seeder featuring a man using a tractor and the seeder in a farm field. The headline reads: "S...
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Sembradoras

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Description: Spanish language advertisement for International Harvester seeders, or grain drills, featuring a color photo of a seeder in a field. The text reads, "Sembr...
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CLH and Ranger Mac

Date: 1911
Description: Cornelius L. Harrington and Ranger McNeel planting tree seedlings at the Trout Lake nursery.
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Tractor Pulling Seeders

Date: 1920
Description: Three-quarter view from right front of a man driving a tractor pulling seeders. Another man is sitting on a seeder in the center directly behind the tracto...

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