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Women and Children Watch Men Work in Field

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Description: Children, men with hats, and women with parasols, are watching men work in a field with a horse-drawn plow and other agricultural equipment. A house is in...
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Boy and Men in Field with Rake Reaper

Date: 1873
Description: A boy and three men are in a field in the foreground with a manual rake reaper and other harvesting tools. Various farmstead buildings, a fence and Lombard...
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Three Generations of Plows

Date: 09 16 1936
Description: Three generations of De Haan men display types of plows which have been passed down within their family.
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Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using what appears to be a mower drawn by two horses to work in a field. Farm buildings and other workers are in the background, as well as child...
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Men Operating McCormick Binders

Date: 1900
Description: View from a distance of three farmers, and perhaps a child, using horse-drawn McCormick grain binders in a field. Farm buildings are in the middle distance...
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Men with Big 4 Mowers

Date: 1900
Description: Two men are leading horses in pulling McCormick Big 4 mowers near a brick farmhouse. A girl wearing a dress and hat is sitting on a horse in the foreground...
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Men Operating McCormick Binders

Date: 1900
Description: View from a distance of three farmers, and perhaps a child, using horse-drawn McCormick grain binders in a field. Farm buildings are in the middle distance...
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McCormick Binder near Children in Wheat Field

Date: 1900
Description: Four small children are sitting on shocks of wheat in a field as a man is operating a McCormick grain binder nearby. Farm buildings and a fence are in the ...
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Men Raking Hay in a Field

Date: 1900
Description: A young man is operating a horse-drawn hay rake in a field, while other men are raking by hand. There are large piles of hay scattered in the field. In the...
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Man and Child Working in the Field

Date: 1915
Description: Rear view of young child operating a horse-drawn hay rake while a man is standing nearby.
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Pea Viner

Date: 1924
Description: A group of farmers, including women and children, pose in front of a pea processing plant.
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Tractor Uses

Date: 1925
Description: Advertisement for the La Crosse kerosene tractor featuring photographs of the tractor in use on farm jobs. The headline reads: "The HAPPY FARMER Really Bur...
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Elmer Tompkin Driving Farmall M with No. 12 Two-Row Digger

Date: 1940
Description: View from rear of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elmer Merrill's 400-acre ...
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Elmer Tompkin Driving Farmall M with No. 12 Two-Row Digger

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elme...

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