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Poster

Deering Grain Binder Advertising Poster

Date: 1883
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration for the Deering All-Steel Binder with steel bundle carrier, produced by William Deering & Co. Includes an illustration ...
Poster

McCormick Advertising Poster

Date: 1902
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster for McCormick mowers and rakes. Features on the top half a young boy with a reaping hook/sickle and a young girl holdin...
Photograph

Laying Rail at Kilbourn Railroad Station

Date: 
Description: Three men are laying rail on snow-covered ground at the Kilbourn railroad station.
Photograph

Farmall Tractors, Combines and Trucks

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of men sitting and working among Farmall tractors, combines (harvester-threshers) and trucks, possibly outside an International Harvester dea...
Photograph

Surveying

Date: 1969
Description: Three men surveying a point in southwestern Wisconsin.
Postcard

Bee Farmer in Field

Date: 
Description: A cyanotype postcard of a bee farmer working in his field.
Photograph

1831 Reaper on Film Set

Date: 1929
Description: Men repair a reaper replica on the motion picture set of "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celeb...
Photograph

Man Making Adjustments to Plow

Date: 1921
Description: Close-up of a man's arm using a wrench to make adjustments to a P&O tractor plow hitched to a tractor.
Photograph

Preparation for Pit Silo

Date: 1915
Description: Three men working at a site for a new pit silo on an International Harvester demonstration farm.
Photograph

Farm Irrigation

Date: 1920
Description: A man crouching in a farm field near a wooden tool, possibly doing irrigation work. A dirt road behind the man leads to several buildings and a water tower...
Photograph

Dangers of TNT

Date: 08 1927
Description: A man holding a metal instrument approaching a tree stump to inspect why a dynamite blast did not go off.
Photograph

Mowing Machine Hazards

Date: 07 1927
Description: A man is kneeling on the ground beside a mower hitched to two horses while performing repairs. An agricultural tool is lying on the ground beside him.
Photograph

Man Adjusting 10-20 Tractor

Date: 05 1926
Description: A man is adjusting the hitch of a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor with a hook while working in a field at International Harvester's experimental farm.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Tillage Tools Catalog

Date: 1935
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure with the title "Make Good Work Easy with McCormick-Deering Tillage Tools." Flanking the cover photograph is a list of McCo...
Photograph

Man Tightening Wire Fence

Date: 1921
Description: Man tightening a wire fence. Original caption reads: "R.A. Hayne tightening a wire fence on the John Esch farm."
Photograph

Fence Post Removal

Date: 1915
Description: A man uses a "handy device for pulling old fence post" (original caption).
Photograph

St. Peter's Church Steeple

Date: 05 1984
Description: "Workers do steeple repair on St. Peter's Church."
Photograph

Removing Stumps on Uhrenholdt Farm

Date: 
Description: A group of men remove a large stump with the help of horses and a winch on the family farm.
Book or Pamphlet

Trundaar Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of an advertising pamphlet for the Trundaar tractor. The color illustration features a man using the crawler tractor in a field, with other men...
Photograph

Men Posing with Tree Stumps

Date: 
Description: Four men posing with stumps they are pulling in an open field. In the background is a winch powered by two horses in the background. There are power lines ...

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