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Family in Carriages with Barn

Date: 1878
Description: Barnyard, with what appears to be a pigyard littered with corncobs. It is enclosed with a solid board fence and has slop troughs made from hollowed logs. A...
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Herman Amberg Preus and Caroline Keyser Preus House

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Description: Wood frame house with carpenter's lace and family seated and standing to side of house in background. A windmill and small barn with cupola is in the right...
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Man in Field near Farmstead

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Description: A man is standing in a field with corn and other crops, with a windmill on a wooden tower and a barn in the background. Two carriages are also visible, one...
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Empire Corn Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1906
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Empire Corn Drills sold by International Harvester. Features an illustration of a man walking behind a horse-drawn corn...
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Man Forming Corn Pile

Date: 12 28 1922
Description: A man standing beside two horses loading an elevator to form a tall corn pile in the snow-covered yard of George Fox. A barn and windmill are in the backg...
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Workers with Cattle Posing in front of Farm Yard

Date: 1900
Description: Farm house, barn, and farm buildings surround by fence. Trees and windmills in background. Man riding horse-drawn corn binder in field with many men and c...
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Farmall Regular with No.2 Corn Sheller

Date: 1931
Description: Farmall Regular tractor powering a McCormick Deering No. 2 corn sheller near a barn.
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Old Windmill on Hill

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Description: View of Chatham Windmill, built in 1796 by Colonel Benjamin Godfrey. The windmill is 30 feet tall with an octagonal base and was used for grinding corn an...
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Group of Men and Boys Harvesting Corn

Date: 1900
Description: View down corn rows of field of a large group of men and boys harvesting corn stalks. Several men are filling a wagon. Behind them is a man operating a cor...
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Loading Corn into Silo

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Description: The barn in the foreground, left, is the school barn for the Hillside Home School (which was run by Frank Lloyd Wright's aunts & Enos Lloyd Jones sisters, ...
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Husker and Shredder in Farm Yard

Date: 1902
Description: Men with a wagon feeding corn stalks into a husker-shredder near a barn. Other farm implements are in the foreground behind a fence, and a windmill is in t...
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Man on Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across partially harvested cornfield of a man on a horse-drawn corn binder. Behind the horses is a tower structure, perhaps for a windmill. The cornfi...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Left side view of a man using three horses to pull a horse-drawn corn binder in a cornfield. A farmhouse is in the background.
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Cornfield and Farm Buildings

Date: 06 16 1925
Description: View across cornfield towards a well kept farm.
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IH Display at Fair

Date: 11 10 1927
Description: View across lawn towards a display of tractors, trucks, cream separators, and the other implements around a counter with posters and signs. There is a corn...
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Harvesting Corn on Windy Day

Date: 12 10 1927
Description: View from front of a man on a Farmall tractor with a corn picker working in a field. There is a wagon on the left. Farm buildings are in the background.
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Harvesting Corn on Windy Day

Date: 12 10 1927
Description: View from front of a man on a Farmall tractor with a corn picker working in a field. There is a wagon on the left. Farm buildings are in the background.
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Farmall Mounted Corn Picker

Date: 12 21 1928
Description: View towards a man driving a Farmall tractor with a corn picker and a wagon in a cornfield. In the background is a house and a windmill.
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Tractor Belt-Driving Ensilage Cutter

Date: 12 29 1928
Description: A tractor in the foreground is belt-driving an ensilage cutter near a barn. Men are working on wagons to feed the cutter. There is a windmill behind the tr...
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Terraced Farm Land

Date: 1948
Description: Aerial view of terraced farm land with shocks of harvested corn. A farm is in the valley and trees cover much of the hills.

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