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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...
Photograph

Farm and Field near Road

Date: 08 14 1936
Description: Farm and field near a rural tree-lined road. Cars and trucks can be seen in the distance.
Photograph

Farmer Operating Corn Binder

Date: 1914
Description: A man operates a horse-drawn corn binder in a field while others load stalks into wagons. A silo and two barns are in the background.
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

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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

Silo Filling Operation

Date: 1914
Description: Men are working with an ensilage cutter near a silo. Two men are standing on a wagon on the left putting silage into the cutter. Another man is standing ne...
Photograph

Man Using No. 2 Ensilage Harvester with Farmall M Tractor

Date: 1947
Description: View across harvested cornfield towards a man using a Farmall M tractor to pull a No. 2 ensilage harvester and wagon and box on the Bowman Dairy Farm. Farm...
Photograph

Loading Corn into Silo

Date: 
Description: View across barnyard towards men loading corn into a silo on a farm. The men are working on the right with horse-drawn wagons loaded with cornstalks. A tra...
Photograph

Threshing Operation

Date: 08 26 1925
Description: View across field towards threshing operation. A tractor on the left is powering the thresher with a long belt. Three men are standing in three horse-drawn...
Photograph

Hay Loader

Date: 09 04 1925
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of two men using a hay loader to fill a horse-drawn wagon. In the distance are farm buildings.
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

Husker and Shredders, Farmall Tractor and Corn Separators

Date: 08 24 1927
Description: View across barnyard towards men working with a Farmall tractor belt-driving machinery. The men are standing near a wagon piled with cornstalks, and a silo...
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...

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