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Rockdale Creamery

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery.
Drawing

Building Corderoy Road

Date: 1948
Description: Pencil drawing of men building a corderoy road in the 1860's. Used for historical display for the Wisconsin State Highway Department.
Photograph

Family in Yard of Farmhouse

Date: 1872
Description: A family is posing in the yard of a farmhouse near the porch. A child is sitting in a baby buggy. Farm buildings, farm implements, wagons and people are in...
Photograph

Convict Labor During World War I

Date: 09 1917
Description: South Carolina convicts building a road at Camp Wadsworth near Spartenberg in preparation for the camp's use as a National Guard training camp. The prisone...
Photograph

Farm Family Posing Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: View down driveway towards a farm family posing in front of their farmhouse and farm buildings. An older man and woman are sitting. Three women are standin...
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Loading a Wagon

Date: 01 1916
Description: A farmer shoveling corn stalks from a field into a wagon.
Photograph

Spreading Lime

Date: 10 07 1927
Description: Two men using a Farmall Regular tractor, a farm wagon, and a lime spreader to spread lime in a field.
Photograph

Unloading a Coal Barge

Date: 06 11 1894
Description: Several men unload coal from barges with shovels. A row of buildings is in the background.
Photograph

Men Working on Silage Operation

Date: 1902
Description: Several men working on silaging operation with a husker and shredder in front of a barn. Men are standing on wagons moving grain, and full bags are leaning...
Photograph

Men on Wagon

Date: 1911
Description: Group of men on and near a horse-drawn wagon on the side of a road. The wagon is loaded with tools and hardware. Four of the men wear tool belts.
Photograph

Mogul 8-16 Tractor with Hay Loader

Date: 1915
Description: Man pulling a wagon and hay loader with a Mogul 8-16 tractor. Another man stands atop the hay in the wagon.
Photograph

Titan 10-20 Tractor

Date: 1921
Description: A Titan 10-20 tractor attached to a belt is being used to power an ensilage cutter(?) as men are loading hay from a wagon into the loft of a barn.
Photograph

Stopping Gullies in Pasture Land

Date: 10 1929
Description: A man standing on a horse-drawn wagon is using a pitchfork to move hay into a field gully blocked with wood. Another man is standing behind the wagon.
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of Children

Date: 
Description: Outdoor portrait of five children and various dolls in front of a small wooden structure or cabin. A boy is standing on the left side, holding the handle t...
Photograph

Woelfel Haystack

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Description: View of a farmer from top of straw stack. The man uses a fork to push down the straw as more is being blown onto the pile from a thresher. More men in work...
Photograph

Elmer Harris Gathering Sap from Trees

Date: 1966
Description: Elmer Harris is pouring sap into a large container on a Farmall tractor-pulled trailer. The forest has large, tapped Maple trees with buckets collecting th...
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Construction Workers

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Description: Construction workers on the job, with horse-drawn wagons in the background.
Photograph

Group of Men and Boys Threshing

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men and boys threshing. They are using a tractor for a belt-driven threshing machine, and on the left two horses pull a wagon with large barrels.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Tractor and Trailer Brochure

Date: 1937
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering Tractors and Trailers. Includes a photograph of men loading brush or shrubs into a trailer hitched t...
Photograph

Group Watching Hay Baler

Date: 1961
Description: Elevated view of a men, women, and children gathered around a hay baler and other machines at work on International Harvester's Hickory Hill farm. The farm...

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