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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.
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Polishing Milking Machine Parts

Date: 11 10 1937
Description: Three workers polishing milking machine parts at the Ben. H. Anderson Mfg. Co., 3220 Atwood Avenue.
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Milking the Cows

Date: 1929
Description: A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1900
Description: Front cover of a catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. The illustration portrays a little girl being frightened by a little boy. The girl ...
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Family Farming

Date: 1942
Description: Slightly elevated view of Louis Finn and his five sons and three daughters working on their 150-acre potato farm with a Farmall tractor, a potato digger an...
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Farmall MV on Farm

Date: 1943
Description: The caption for this photograph states that this Farmall MV tractor is "shown at work on the 2800-acre Triangle Farm near McCall, Louisiana, some 1800 acre...
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Men Harvesting Grain with Self-Rake Reaper

Date: 1905
Description: A man operates a horse-drawn self-rake reaper in a field while another follows behind with a rake. A girl approaches from the side with a jug in her hand.
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Spitler Bros. Dairy

Date: 1937
Description: Two men are standing in a room with a cooler and milking equipment. Original caption identifies the equipment as "McCormick-Deering 6 Can Cooler and Mc[Cor...
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Men with McCormick-Deering Milker

Date: 10 06 1937
Description: Mr. C.L. Thompson from the Thompson Hardware Company demonstrates a McCormick-Deering milker to an unidentified man and dairyman Wayne Wakefield. The men s...
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Grove Workers with DS-30

Date: 1937
Description: Three men use an International DS-30 truck and sprayers to work in a grove.
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Joe Santana Milking Cows

Date: 1946
Description: Joe Santana kneels beside a dairy cow in a barn to use a McCormick-Deering milker. The original caption reads: "Joe Santana, 326-S, Studebaker St., at Norw...
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Man Milking Cows

Date: 1940
Description: Roger Thomas uses a McCormick-Deering milker on a Holstein cow at the Lee Thomas farm.
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Harvey Schmidt with Portable Milker

Date: 03 30 1939
Description: Harvey Schmidt stands amongst a row of cows in a barn to use a portable milking machine.
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Men with Milkers

Date: 1938
Description: Three men, two wearing overalls and one in a suit and hat, stand outdoors in front of a building beside four McCormick-Deering single-unit milkers on the f...
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Man Carrying Milker

Date: 01 17 1938
Description: Mr. E. Bognuda stands in a barn doorway while carrying a McCormick milker. The original caption reads: "Milkers on dairy farm owned by Mr. E. Bognuda locat...
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Man and Girl with McCormick Milkers

Date: 1937
Description: A man crouches beside a McCormick single-unit milker outside a barn, while a young girl standing next to him holds the tubes of another milker in her hands...
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Milking Machine Sale

Date: 06 03 1937
Description: Ralph Lower, dairy equipment salesman from International Harvester's Syracuse branch, sells a farmer a milking machine at Cedardale Stock Farm. A McCormick...
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Men with Double Unit Milkers

Date: 07 01 1936
Description: Three men stand between two rows of cows in a barn on the H.C. Slocum farm. The man on the left carries a metal pail, while the man on the right and the ma...
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Children with Cream Separator

Date: 05 25 1927
Description: A boy is holding a drinking glass up to the spout of a cream separator as a man is pouring a metal milk pail into the device. A young girl is sitting on a ...
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Men with Cream Separator

Date: 1925
Description: A man is emptying a pail into a Number 4 electric cream separator in a shed on the farm of John Doanan. Mr. Doanan is standing with a pail in the foregroun...

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