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Photograph

McCormick Combine Harvesting Wheat

Date: 
Description: Farmer harvesting wheat with a McCormick combine (harvester-thresher) at Hinsdale Farm, near International Harvester's experimental farm.
Photograph

Harvesting Corn with McCormick No. 24 Corn-Picker

Date: 1949
Description: Farmer harvesting corn with a McCormick no. 24 two-row corn-picker and farm wagon ("barge wagon") attached to McCormick Farmall H tractor.
Photograph

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.
Poster

McCormick-Deering Farmall Tractors Advertising Poster

Date: 1926
Description: Advertising poster for Farmall tractors. Features a color illustration, on the top half, of a man using a Farmall tractor and a Farmall cultivator in a cor...
Painting

Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
Painting

Corn Shredding

Date: 
Description: Two farm workers in the righthand foreground toss a corn bundle up to the horse-drawn corn shredding machine to be shredded. To the left, a man loads feed ...
Photograph

Loading Hay Bales into Barn at the Joseph Stocker Farm

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Description: Fred Stocker loads bales of hay from the back of a flatbed wagon onto a conveyor at his farm. The large bales march up the conveyor to the opening near the...
Print

Russell and Company Advertising Booklet

Date: 1919
Description: Back cover of a booklet titled, "The Russell & Co. Year Book of Tractors & Threshers." The text reads: "The Old Reliable Line. 78th Year. 1842 to 1919. Geo...
Book or Pamphlet

Lauson Tractor Usages

Date: 1925
Description: Inside pages of a pamphlet advertising the Lauson tractor, depicting six usages of the equipment on a farm: plowing, silo filling, discing, corn shelling, ...
Photograph

Men Harvesting with a Vertical Stationary Engine

Date: 1911
Description: A man on the right is standing and leaning against a large cart which contains a vertical stationary engine. Three men on the left are working in the backg...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Print

Wisconsin Hills

Date: 
Description: Engraved print of a man riding atop a wagonload of hay pulled by a horse along a road in a hilly rural area. On the left is a barn and silos.
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field. In the background are farm buildings and a silo.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1928
Description: View across field towards a man driving a large team of horses pulling a harvester thresher. A man is standing in the field in the foreground. A silo, a lo...
Photograph

Farmall Tractor Belt-Driving Machinery in Field

Date: 1931
Description: View across field towards men working in a field. A Farmall tractor is belt-driving machinery, perhaps to bale hay. Farm buildings and silos are in the far...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Thresher

Date: 10 11 1926
Description: View across field towards a harvester thresher throwing grain on a tall pile on the left. Men are working on the back of a horse-drawn wagon. Farm building...
Photograph

Tractor Powered Hay Press

Date: 08 25 1927
Description: A tractor in the right foreground is belt driving a hay press. There is also what appears to be a thresher, which one person is aiming into the bed of a tr...
Photograph

Tractor Powered Ensilage Cutters

Date: 08 24 1927
Description: View towards a man using a tractor powered ensilage cutter. The tractor is in the right foreground, and the man is standing near the cutter which is near t...
Photograph

Tractor Powered Ensilage Cutters

Date: 10 05 1928
Description: View towards men working with a tractor powers ensilage cutter to fill a silo.
Photograph

Filling Silo with Ensilage Cutters

Date: 10 05 1928
Description: View towards a tractor belt-driving an ensilage cutter to fill a silo. A man is standing near the cutter, and another man is on a wagon.

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