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Workers and Foremen (?) Posing in Field with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A group of men in suits, presumably foremen or supervisors, and several men in work clothes, are in a grain field. Most of the men in suits are either sitt...
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Farm Windmill

Date: 
Description: View from field of a cluster of farm outbuildings, including a windmill. Smoke is coming out of a smokestack attached to the back of the windmill.
Painting

A Farm Auction

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Description: An auctioneer, a clerk, and a helper stand on a stage on a farm conducting an auction as potential bidders surround them. Farming equipment and other items...
Photograph

Boy Practicing Cattle Roping

Date: 1962
Description: 6-year-old Kirk Hanna uses a lasso to practice cattle roping on a pair of bull horns affixed to a log in a barnyard. A horse is tied to a fence on the righ...
Photograph

Barn Raising

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Description: Group of men working on a barn raising, showing some of the workers up on the frame securing the timbers, and other workers carrying more timbers into posi...
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Farmhouse Facade in Early Spring

Date: 1915
Description: View of a house surrounded by trees. Snow is on the ground, and the base of a windmill is on the right near the house.

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