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African American Farmer Hauling Corn to Market

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Description: Farmer hauling corn to market with an ox-driven wagon. Original caption notes that oxen were used considerably in the south for motive power.
Book or Pamphlet

Case Centennial Plow Brochure

Date: 1937
Description: Front cover of a brochure advertising the Case Centennial Plow. The brochure is titled "Plows on Parade" and tells the history of the steel plow business t...
Poster

International Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Advertising poster for International motor trucks with color illustration of a truck and ghostly images of pioneers on horseback and oxen-drawn Conestoga w...
Photograph

Luva Street Scene

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Description: View down Luva Street in San Juan Puerto Rico. Oxen carry a large cart down a narrow street, while people move along the sidewalks.
Postcard

Ox Tram

Date: 09 1907
Description: Two harnessed black oxen are standing near a clothing shop. A young boy's face is visible behind the oxen. Jackets are hanging from hooks outside the shop....
Print

G. Heileman Brewing Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the G. Heileman Brewing Company of La Crosse, Wisconsin, with a musketeer-like figure holding a bottle of beer in one hand and raising a glas...
Photograph

Men Posed Holding Logging Tools

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Description: Four men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen in the woods. Photographer's wagon in the background of C.R. Monroe, Traveling...
Photograph

Pawnee Bill's Circus Parade

Date: 07 28 1901
Description: View of Pawnee Bill's Circus Parade.
Photograph

Oxen Pulling a Cart

Date: 05 1902
Description: Two teams of yoked oxen pulling carts used to transport logs to, and lumber from sawmills. There is a large, wood frame two-story building in the backgroun...
Photograph

Man on Ox-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man using an ox-drawn McCormick binder in a field. Another man is standing behind the mower on the far right.
Photograph

Man on Ox-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of a man using an ox-drawn McCormick binder in a field.
Photograph

Man Using Ox-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across harvested section of field towards a man using an ox-drawn binder. Two men wearing suits are standing on the left, and one is gesturing with a ...
Photograph

Man Using Ox-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man using an ox-drawn McCormick binder in a field.
Photograph

Team of Oxen in Luck

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Description: Team of oxen pulling a sled loaded with large sacks on a snowy street in front of a General Merchandise Dry Goods store. Two men stand at the back of the s...
Photograph

Man Using Tractor in Field in India

Date: 1970
Description: Elevated view of a man using a MRA 2940 International tractor in a field in India. Behind him in the field a man is walking with oxen. On the edge of the f...
Photograph

Oxen in Harness with Haul of Logs

Date: 1887
Description: Seven men are posing on or near a haul of logs loaded onto a sled. Some of the men are holding cant hooks. A team of oxen are yoked to the sled.
Photograph

Workers with a Haul of Logs

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Description: Group portrait of seven men posing on or around a pile of logs. Some of the men are carrying cant hooks. The logs are being hauled on a sled pulled by two ...
Photograph

Flour Seller

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Description: Galician flour seller from Tarnow.
Photograph

Supply Transport through Constantinople

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Description: Supply of food and weapons is transported through Constantinople during the early days of the war.
Photograph

Five Binders Lined Up in Field

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Description: View across field towards five men driving five McCormick binders drawn by teams of two oxen, and teams of two horses. There is a man on horseback on the f...

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