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Reaping Scene

Date: 1879
Description: Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings...
Photograph

McCormick Combine Harvesting Wheat

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Description: Farmer harvesting wheat with a McCormick combine (harvester-thresher) at Hinsdale Farm, near International Harvester's experimental farm.
Photograph

Harvesting Corn with McCormick No. 24 Corn-Picker

Date: 1949
Description: Farmer harvesting corn with a McCormick no. 24 two-row corn-picker and farm wagon ("barge wagon") attached to McCormick Farmall H tractor.
Photograph

Osborne Grain Binder

Date: 07 31 1912
Description: Farmer driving a horse-drawn Osborne grain binder near a barn.
Photograph

Farmer Harvesting Corn with McCormick Corn Picker

Date: 1954
Description: Color photograph of a man harvesting corn with a McCormick corn picker on International Harvester's experimental farm.
Photograph

Horses and Central-rig

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Description: Men are in a farmyard (possibly at a sorghum mill) with horses hitched to a central-rig. A haystack, barn, wagons and farm machinery are in the background.
Photograph

Tobacco Harvest

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Description: Men in field with tobacco on wagon, and a barn and an outbuilding in the background. This is Lewis Dahl's tobacco harvest in back of his father's home (Nel...
Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Hay Presses Catalog Cover

Date: 1912
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester hay presses. The cover features an illustration of a young woman dressed in a light blue ...
Magazine or Periodical

Case Centennial Advertisement

Date: 1942
Description: Magazine advertisement celebrating the centennial of J.I. Case Co. of Racine, Wisconsin. The advertisement features a photograph of a contemporary tractor ...
Painting

Residence of Mr. Martin Lutscher

Date: 1875
Description: Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s...
Photograph

Cranberry Drying and Storage

Date: 1934
Description: Two workmen stack crates of cranberries in an open air drying shed. The original caption which was supplied by the Agriculture Department noted that Wiscon...
Photograph

Mogul Jr. Tractor with Grain Binders

Date: 1912
Description: Men operate three McCormick grain binders and a Mogul Jr. tractor.
Photograph

Farm Scene with Grain Binder

Date: 1905
Description: Farm scene including a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder, people, a farmhouse, and a barn.
Poster

McCormick-Deering Farmall Tractors Advertising Poster

Date: 1926
Description: Advertising poster for Farmall tractors. Features a color illustration, on the top half, of a man using a Farmall tractor and a Farmall cultivator in a cor...
Photograph

Farmer with Side Delivery Hay Rake

Date: 08 25 1927
Description: A man, possibly N.B. Frankensteen, operating a horse-drawn side delivery hay rake on the N.B. Frankensteen Ridgebrook Farm. Farm buildings are in the backg...
Photograph

Men Working With Tractor and Threshing Machinery

Date: 
Description: A crew of men inspect a tractor next to a barn, while other men work with a threshing machine in the background.
Photograph

Man with Hammer Mill and Power Unit

Date: 11 08 1938
Description: A man loads what appear to be stalks of harvested wheat onto a #10-C hammer mill operated by a P-30 power unit. The entire outfit was mounted on a tractor-...
Photograph

Man Driving Horse-Drawn Reaper in Valley

Date: 1900
Description: Landscape view of field, trees, and valley with farm buildings in background. A man is driving a horse-drawn reaper in a field in the foreground.
Photograph

Harvesting Alfalfa

Date: 1915
Description: Several agricultural workers mowing and baling bottom land alfalfa in the vicinity of Tulsa. The operation utilizes horse-drawn farm equipment. A barn and ...
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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