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Harold McCormick Family Portrait at Walnut Grove, Virginia

Date: 1922
Description: Harold F. McCormick family, farm laborers, and various animals on the Walnut Grove estate at Raphine, Virginia. Harold McCormick was the son of Cyrus Hall ...
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Trailing Plow with Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: View across field towards a man using a Farmall H tractor with a 2-furrow trailing plow to work in a field. A farmhouse and several outbuildings are in th...
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McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler Demonstration

Date: 10 06 1937
Description: C.L. Thompson, a McCormick-Deering dealer explains a milk cooler, which is loaded on a trailer hauled by an International truck, to Wayne Wakefield. Both m...
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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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Men and Boy Loading Hay onto DR-70 Truck

Date: 1938
Description: Two men and a boy load bales of hay from the bed of an International DR-70 truck into a barn. The original caption reads: "A DR-70 170-inch wheelbase truck...
Painting

Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
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Danger of Gas Vapors

Date: 06 1927
Description: A man lies on the floor of a garage to repair an automobile at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. The photograph was taken for Internati...
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Woman with Parasol on Front Lawn of Farmhouse

Date: 1925
Description: View of a woman posing holding a parasol while sitting on the front lawn of a farmhouse on an International Harvester demonstration farm. Other people are ...
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Soil and Crop Improvement Association

Date: 1918
Description: A man is leaning on the passenger side of an automobile marked: "Kankakee County Soil and Crop Improvement Association." Another man is sitting inside. The...
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Selling Peaches

Date: 1923
Description: A customer offers payment for fruit to a woman sitting at a small desk inside an orchard shed. Multiple rows of bushel baskets filled with peaches are line...
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Spiegel Family Butchering Chickens

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Description: Six men of the Spiegel family stand outdoors around a long wooden table butchering chickens. The table is covered with large steel pots and pieces of meat....
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Man Operating Horse-Drawn Manure Spreader

Date: 04 18 1927
Description: A man wearing a hat sitting on a two-horse manure spreader with farm buildings, an automobile, and a cow in the background. The original caption reads: "Ke...
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Man Operating Horse-Drawn Manure Spreader

Date: 1926
Description: Elevated view of a man driving a manure spreader pulled by a team of horses. In the background is a large barn with three silos, a tractor, wagons and an a...
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Selling Peaches at the Shed

Date: 09 1923
Description: Men looking through baskets of peaches in an open shed, where fruit was sold by the bushel. Others stand nearby. Original caption reads: "Selling peaches a...
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Plowing on International Harvester Company Farm

Date: 1962
Description: Elevated view of International Harvester employees using the company's tractors and plows to work in a field on a company farm in Tifton. International Har...
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Berg Farm

Date: 10 1987
Description: "Gordon Berg, left, Brownsville area farmer, posed with his hired helper at his state-of-the-art farm."
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Tree Planting Crew

Date: 05 1911
Description: A pickup truck carrying a crew of 12 men is parked between two automobiles in front of a barn. The truck is identified as "Bingham & Lawrence Fruit and Nur...
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Pioneer Days

Date: 09 1996
Description: "When Pioneer Days was celebrated, visitors were given the chance to view the community from a helicopter."
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Roofers and Visiting Ladies on the Roof

Date: 1922
Description: View along roof of four men in hats and work clothes, and two women in summer dresses posing on the side of the roof. One of the men is holding a hammer. I...
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Farmall H with Sweeprake Mounted on Front

Date: 1941
Description: Mr. Frank Ridgway's 17-year-old son, Charles Ridgway, is on a Farmall H on the Frank Ridgway farm. A sweeprake, which Mr. Ridgway built himself, is mounted...

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