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Farmer with Walking Planter

Date: 1925
Description: Farmer in a field walking behind a P&O planter drawn by a mule. There is an automobile on a road near a house behind a fence in the background.
Photograph

Plows at Chattanooga Plow Works

Date: 1930
Description: Men (mostly likely employees), plows, cane mills and an evaporator are lined up on a Main Street sidewalk outside the Chattanooga Plow Works.
Photograph

Grain Cutting

Date: 1944
Description: Richard and Ralph Quinney, posing for a photo with their father, Floyd Quinney with corn knives and a scythe.
Photograph

Spreading Lime in Alfalfa Field

Date: 09 1929
Description: View from rear of a man using a Farmall tractor and a McCormick-Deering lime sower to fertilize an alfalfa field at International Harvester's Hinsdale expe...
Photograph

"One-Mule Agriculture Method"

Date: 1914
Description: A group of farmers use mules to plow a field near a dirt road. A farm building and electrical or telephone poles are in the background.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Wagon

Date: 03 1926
Description: A wagon hitched to two horses is standing alongside a dirt road as a man uses a hoe or shovel in the field to the left.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest

Date: 
Description: Men working in field during Wisconsin cranberry harvest. Crates are stacked up throughout the field.
Book or Pamphlet

Wagon Truck and Gear Brochure

Date: 1939
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for "All-Purpose Trucks Farm Gears and Wagons Tractor-Trailer Gears." Includes a man driving a Farmall H tractor.
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest and Inspection

Date: 1934
Description: View down dirt road of field hands working to harvest cranberries in a flooded cranberry marsh, while men inspect newly harvested and crated cranberries. I...
Print

Russell Kerosene Tractor Brochure

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of brochure advertising Russell standardized kerosene tractors. The cover features several photographs of tractors being used on farms and to h...
Book or Pamphlet

Monarch Tractors in the Lumber Field

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by General Tractors Incorporated to advertise Monarch Neverslip tractors. The photograph on the cover depicts two men us...
Print

Yuba Ball Tread Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Two-page advertisement featuring a collage of photographs depicting the Yuba ball tread tractor at work in farm fields. A photograph of the Yuba Constructi...
Print

Why You Should Have a Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the Illinois Super-Drive tractor with six photographs of the machinery in use on farms. The headline reads: "Here Are Reasons Why You Sho...
Book or Pamphlet

Power for Every Need

Date: 1921
Description: Back cover of a pamphlet advertising the Caterpillar tractor with a headline that reads: "Power for Every Need." It is illustrated with six photographs of ...
Photograph

Road and Stone Wall

Date: 1900
Description: View across road towards stone walls, with a gate, which run along the road, and through a field towards the left. A man is using a horse-drawn plow in the...
Photograph

Tractor-Drawn Harvester Thresher in Field

Date: 07 15 1925
Description: View from road towards a man driving a tractor to pull a harvester thresher in a field.
Photograph

Plowing Field

Date: 09 14 1925
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a man driving a McCormick-Deering tractor, pulling a man on a plow in a field.

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