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"McCormick Day" in Small Rural Town

Date: 1899
Description: Elevated view of farmers lined up in horse-drawn wagons loaded with their new McCormick farm machines. Their wagons are adorned with "McCormick" signs and ...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Grass Cutting Machinery Advertising Catalog

Date: 1888
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for grass cutting machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features a color illustration of children riding a...
Photograph

Husker-Shredder Powered by Engine

Date: 1905
Description: Farmers using a husker-shredder(?) powered by an engine. A man and two children look on from the doorway of a barn. Another man is standing on a horse-draw...
Photograph

Father with Young Son on Farm

Date: 1919
Description: A father and young son loading corn from a wagon to a barn. A stationary engine is in the background.
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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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Silaging Operation Near Barn

Date: 1900
Description: Silaging operation near a barn with two open doors. In the center, two men work unloading a wagon into a belt-driven husker and shredder. A chute is extend...
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Farmstead

Date: 1920
Description: View of a barn, farmhouse, outbuilding and tractor on an International Harvester demonstration farm.
Photograph

Men and a Boy Harvesting Hay

Date: 1900
Description: View across flowering field towards three men and a young boy harvesting hay. A man is standing on top of a stack of hay piled onto a horse-drawn wagon. An...
Photograph

Group of Men and Boys Harvesting Corn

Date: 1900
Description: View down corn rows of field of a large group of men and boys harvesting corn stalks. Several men are filling a wagon. Behind them is a man operating a cor...
Print

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...
Photograph

Men with Horse-Drawn Corn Binders

Date: 1900
Description: View across cornfield of large group portrait of men and children posing with horse-drawn vehicles, including wagons and binders. A few men are standing ne...
Photograph

Threshing Operation

Date: 1914
Description: Group of men, and two young boys, using a thresher near a barn.
Photograph

Family with Lunch at Threshing Operation in Canada

Date: 11 22 1927
Description: In the foreground a man is standing with three women and one girl. In the background men are near a tractor, thresher, and wagons of hay near a haystack.
Photograph

Filling Silo with Ensilage Cutter Powered by Farmall Tractor

Date: 10 05 1928
Description: A man is using a Farmall tractor to belt-drive an ensilage cutter to fill a silo. The man is working at the back of a horse-drawn wagon. Another person, pe...
Photograph

Ensilage Cutter

Date: 12 28 1928
Description: A group of men are using an ensilage cutter near a barn. A Farmall tractor in the foreground is belt driving the ensilage cutter. A young boy is sitting be...
Photograph

Ensilage Cutter

Date: 12 28 1928
Description: A group of men are using an ensilage cutter near a barn. A Farmall tractor on the left is belt driving the ensilage cutter. A young boy is sitting in the w...
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Man with Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

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Description: A man is using a horse-drawn corn binder in a field. On the far right a young girl is sitting in a horse-drawn wagon.

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