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Farmer's Birthday

Date: 07 07 1983
Description: John Fitzsimmons and Barton Voegeli take a break from discing the fields to eat the birthday cake that Voegeli's wife made to celebrate the occasion.
Painting

Steam Power

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Description: A harvest scene in which an old-fashioned steam-powered tractor is hooked up to a threshing machine. There is a pile of coal next to the tractor and a tank...
Painting

Corn Shredding

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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

Cranberry Growers

Date: 10 1984
Description: Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries.
Photograph

Man Driving McCormick International Tractor in Iraq

Date: 1952
Description: A man is driving a Super W-6 McCormick International tractor in a field. The tractor is pulling an implement, and there is a thatched-roof building in the ...
Photograph

Louis Felix

Date: 10 28 1988
Description: A man in the foreground is holding up a cauliflower in one hand and holding a machete in the other. In the background six other people are working in a cab...
Photograph

Haying

Date: 1950
Description: Haying on the farm with dramatic clouds in the background. The John Deere tractor is pulling the chopper as it empties into a wagon.
Photograph

Getting Ready for Spring

Date: 03 19 1985
Description: Rear view of a man driving a tractor, which is pulling a manure spreader. Caption reads: "GETTING READY FOR SPRING - A farmer took advantage of a nice wint...
Photograph

Dry Fields

Date: 05 08 1986
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man driving a tractor across a field, sending dust clouds into the air. Caption reads: "Dry fields were evident as a farmer pre...

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