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Men Using Tractor and Threshing Machine

Date: 1897
Description: Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a...
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 and Shredder Crew at Barn

Date: 1913
Description: Men working with wagons and husker-shredder near a barn. The husker-shredder is powered by a Titan 18-35 tractor. A dog is walking by a fence, and milk can...
Photograph

Cotton Gin

Date: 01 13 1938
Description: Two men use horse-drawn wagons to haul loads of cotton near a cotton gin powered by an International PD-80 unit. A sign on the barn reads: "Bassett Gin."
Photograph

Husker and Shredder in Farm Yard

Date: 1902
Description: Group of men working with a tractor-powered husker and shredder in a farm yard. Men are standing on wagons, and there is a pile of boards in the yard. Part...
Photograph

Powered Elevator with Silo

Date: 1916
Description: A farmer with a team of two horses working with an elevator or silo filler near farm buildings and a silo. A Titan stationary engine is powering the elevat...
Photograph

Men Loading Hay Into Wagon

Date: 1911
Description: Two men loading hay onto a horse-drawn wagon in a field. A farm dog is standing nearby.
Painting

Steam Power

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Description: A harvest scene in which an old-fashioned steam-powered tractor is hooked up to a threshing machine. There is a pile of coal next to the tractor and a tank...
Photograph

Stacking Timothy Hay

Date: 08 01 1895
Description: A group of farm workers, four men and four children, pose on the farm of H.D. Dutcher. The men are stacking a large pile of timothy hay, using a ladder to ...
Photograph

Group of People in Front of Frame House

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Description: Two men, two women, a young boy, and a dog are posing standing in a yard in front of a frame house. There is a photographer's wagon on the left, and a box ...
Photograph

Boys and Horses

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Description: View across dirt road towards two men standing, each holding two horses, on either side of a tent. A boy is standing in the center in front of the tent, an...
Photograph

Plastering Straw Stacks with Clay

Date: 1927
Description: Algerian men are plastering a straw stack with clay. Another straw stack can be seen on the right. Hills are barely visible in the distance. An out-of-focu...
Photograph

Tractor Powered Husker and Shredders

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of seven men and a dog posing with a tractor powered husker and shredder. The tractor is on the far right powering the belt-driven husker an...
Photograph

Farmall MD Tractor and Corn Picker

Date: 1949
Description: View of farmyard and farm buildings, with Clarence Schoger on a Farmall MD tractor with IHC corn picker and a wagon filled with ears of corn. Carl Schoger ...
Photograph

Threshing Operation

Date: 07 15 1925
Description: View across field towards three men working with a McCormick-Deering threshing machine. One man is standing on the thresher near the chute, which is shooti...
Photograph

Elevatin' Ears

Date: 08 1949
Description: Robert Palzer, owner of the farm, is using a Model 5-C John Deere portable farm elevator to convey hybrid corn to the kernel remover in the building. The w...
Photograph

Haying Operation

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Description: View of a haying operation, with a farmer and a constable (?) exchanging a piece of paper. Other men are standing in the field near large stacks of hay. A ...

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