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Barn Raising at Lars Davidsen Reque's Home

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Description: Barn raising at Lars Davidsen Reque's home. Crew members can be seen mortising freshly hewn timbers with a hand-operated boring machine. Men are also seen ...
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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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Man Making Adjustments to Plow

Date: 1921
Description: Close-up of a man's arm using a wrench to make adjustments to a P&O tractor plow hitched to a tractor.
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Poultry House Feed Bins

Date: 05 1924
Description: A man wearing a cap and overalls holding a burlap feed bag while standing near feed bins in the poultry house of Professor Holden. Tools are hanging from n...
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Mowing Machine Hazards

Date: 07 1927
Description: A man is kneeling on the ground beside a mower hitched to two horses while performing repairs. An agricultural tool is lying on the ground beside him.
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Man at Tool Cabinet

Date: 04 1926
Description: A man wearing a hat and denim jacket stands near a tool cabinet in a barn or workshop while looking through a drawer at Cutten Farms.
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Making Germination Boxes and Corn Racks

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers using tools to make wooden germination boxes and corn racks outdoors in front of what is possibly a school building.
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Teachers Constructing Germination Box

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers working outdoors using tools to construct a sawdust germination box for corn.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Tillage Tools Catalog

Date: 1935
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure with the title "Make Good Work Easy with McCormick-Deering Tillage Tools." Flanking the cover photograph is a list of McCo...
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Men with Wagon

Date: 1909
Description: Two men standing by the wheel of a wooden horse-drawn wagon while another man is standing behind wooden bars on the wagon bed. A barn, additional buildings...
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Man Tightening Wire Fence

Date: 1921
Description: Man tightening a wire fence. Original caption reads: "R.A. Hayne tightening a wire fence on the John Esch farm."
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Factory Workers at McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1900
Description: Male workers standing at stations positioned along a wall of windows inside the McCormick Reaper Works. A belt-driven power system is suspended from the ce...
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Four Workers Seated Below Parts Display

Date: 1910
Description: Factory workers sit on a wooden bench with a large wheel or gear resting on their legs below a display of implement parts, most likely at International Har...
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Harvesting Machinery

Date: 1883
Description: Inside spread of 4-page brochure featuring illustrations accompanying blocks of text explaining the features of Champion machines. The top left shows a man...
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Man Cutting Sorghum with Large Knife

Date: 08 24 1927
Description: A man is standing on a wagon or bench. He is cutting sorghum, which is in a large pile, with a large knife he is holding with both hands.
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Men Working on Assembly of Part for Cultivator

Date: 01 26 1921
Description: Men are working on benches in a factory to assemble parts for a cultivator. Three men are using hand drills. Parts are stacked on the far right.
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Construction Sequence

Date: 02 11 1921
Description: Two men are working in a factory. Other men are working in the background.
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Product Assembly

Date: 05 28 1930
Description: Men are working on parts set up on a worktable. The man in the foreground is using a tool with a long cord that is attached to the ceiling. In the backgrou...
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Super C — C-254 Cultivator

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "Super C — C-254 Cultivator." Where Taken: "MidW." Information with photograph reads: "Attaching C-254 two-row cultivator to Farmall Super C tract...

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