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Photograph

Three Men Working in Field near Road

Date: 1900
Description: One man is operating a horse-drawn mower in a field. Two men are standing nearby, with one man pointing up toward the sky, and the other man holding a bunc...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
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...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Landscape view across field towards a man using horse-drawn binder in a field with harvested grain. In the background are farm buildings, and in the far ba...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Landscape view down field towards a horse-drawn binder in a field with harvested grain. A man near the road is standing in a horse-drawn wagon on the left....
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View across road towards a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field. Sheaves of harvested grain are in the field, and there is a barn in the bac...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Binders in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View across harvested field towards men with binders. There are small piles of grain all over the field. Three buggies are parked near the binders. In the ...
Photograph

Man with Horse-Drawn Binder in Field on Hill

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a hilly field. Three men are standing on top of the hill on the right. On the left is ...
Photograph

S.J. Peabody Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Four men wearing vests are posing in a field along with four men on horse-drawn mowers and McCormick binders. In the background are farm buildings.
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view across harvested section of field towards a man using a horse-drawn Deering binder. On the right are sheaves piled in the field along a fence tha...
Photograph

Thresher in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards men using a tractor powered thresher in a field. In the background are a road, trees, fences and hills.
Photograph

Tractor Mounted Corn Picker

Date: 12 29 1928
Description: Slightly elevated view from front of a man driving a tractor with a corn picker on the front. The corn picker may be experimental. In the far background is...

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