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Farmers and Threshing Machine

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Description: A group of eight farmers resting on or near a wooden threshing machine.
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Building Cranberry Bog with T-20 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1937
Description: Men building a cranberry marsh using an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) on the farm of Oscar O. Potter. The tractor is pulling a "turnover...
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Husker and Shredder

Date: 1921
Description: Two men are working with a husker-shredder near a silo and barn. One of the men is shoveling corn stalks from a wagon.
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Men with Husker and Shredder

Date: 1915
Description: Men loading corn stalks from a horse-drawn wagon into a husker-shredder. A ladder is in the right foreground and corn husks cover the ground.
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Crew of Men with Husker and Shredder

Date: 1915
Description: A crew of men standing with a wagon and a husker-shredder near a barn. A sixth man in a dark coat and hat is standing under the ladder leaning against the ...
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Husker and Shredder Crew at Barn

Date: 1913
Description: Men working with wagons and husker-shredder near a barn. The husker-shredder is powered by a Titan 18-35 tractor. A dog is walking by a fence, and milk can...
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Crew with Husker and Shredder

Date: 1915
Description: Six men are standing by a husker-shredder, wagon, and two horses in a farm yard. A tractor, possibly a Mogul 8-16 is on the right. Barns and farm buildings...
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Crew with Husker and Shredder Near Barn

Date: 1915
Description: Two men are working with a husker-shredder, one moving corn from a wagon, the other feeding them into the machine. Two other men are at a wagon on the righ...
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Husker and Shredder

Date: 01 12 1916
Description: Men feed corn from two wagons into a husker shredder near a barn in a snow-covered farm yard. Original caption states: "Owned and operated by Wm. Stiver &...
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Farmer Operating Corn Binder

Date: 1914
Description: A man operates a horse-drawn corn binder in a field while others load stalks into wagons. A silo and two barns are in the background.
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Corn Binder and Wagon

Date: 1914
Description: Two men stand in a horse-drawn wagon as corn stalks are loaded from a field.
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Spring-Tooth Harrow

Date: 05 29 1923
Description: A farmer walks behind a horse-drawn spring-tooth harrow in a field. An orchard is on the right.
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Osborne Spring Tooth Harrow

Date: 05 29 1912
Description: Farmer wearing a hat is walks=ing behind a horse-drawn Osborne spring tooth harrow in a field. Trees and a fence are in the background.
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Cleaning Cow Barn

Date: 12 11 1983
Description: Delmer Staus of Waukesha County shoveling contents of one of his cow barns into a manure spreader.
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Field of Alfalfa at IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 05 1931
Description: Two men work in a field, and another man drives a team of horses pulling a hay rake. Original caption reads: "Demonstration farms. Alfalfa, with and withou...
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Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: A group of men are operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. Three men are posing in the foreground near the tractor, and anot...
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Old Fashioned Methods Must Go

Date: 1919
Description: Illustration of a man using a horse and handheld plow to work in a farm field. The illustration is crossed out in red and captioned with the text: "Old Fas...
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Alfred Lunt and Threshers

Date: 1942
Description: Alfred Lunt watching as farm workers pitch grain into a thresher on the Ten Chimneys farm. Two men at the end of a chute collect the separated grain in sac...

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