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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | European farmers and young boy harvesting grain with horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field in front of a large mansion or institutional complex. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs. |
| Date: | 07 18 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers and a boy, Edgar Walch, posing on and around a steam shovel in the quarry at Eagle View Bluff. Edgar's father, Engelbert Walch, owned the steam sho... |
| Date: | 08 13 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men, one of them possibly H.R. Clark, sitting with two boys on a tractor. All of them are wearing overalls and floppy hats. |
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| Description: | Portrait of an unidentified farm family in a fenced yard. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The manufacture of bricks was begun on this spot sometime in the latter 1860's by Henry Bretag, a German brickmaker, the father of Mrs. Englehardt. Brick ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A farmer is sitting on a horse-drawn mower in a field of grain, while a boy is looking on from the side. Both the man and boy are wearing hats and suspende... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men and a child, all wearing hats, are at the back of a Milwaukee grain binder. One man is standing with a cradle in his hands. An older man with a bea... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A group of farmers are using a McCormick wire grain binder, built in 1876. A horse-drawn carriage is in the background. The original caption reads: "The im... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Man and boy (possibly father and son) on farmland near a cornfield operating a horse-drawn No. 3 Clover Leaf manure spreader. A barn is in the background. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Two children are walking closely behind a man operating a grain binder pulled by a team of four horses through a field, illustrating the dangers of standin... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Men on an International Harvester demonstration farm are feeding corn into a husker-shredder as a boy is holding a burlap bag to the machine to catch the k... |
| Date: | 08 29 1967 |
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| Description: | A group of people sit and stand outdoors with a group of baskets at a collective farm near Phat Diem, North Vietnam, visited by American journalist David S... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Migrant farm laborers leaving a cucumber field to strike. Strikes in Wisconsin were organized by the local farm-worker labor union, Obreros Unidos, an inde... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Hops farming, most likely in California. Pictured among the large plants and trellises are farm workers, both children and adults. Caption reads: "Hop Pick... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A man is standing among four large haystacks, and a young girl is siting posing on the top of the haystack on the right. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a booklet advertising the J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company's line of tractors. The cover features a color illustration of a farmer using ... |
| Date: | 09 23 1911 |
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| Description: | Railroad workers and a crowd of other men, women, and children standing and walking near the wreckage of a freight train. The engine and tender are lying o... |
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