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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Color chromolithograph illustration for the Deering All-Steel Binder with steel bundle carrier, produced by William Deering & Co. Includes an illustration ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph advertising poster for McCormick mowers and rakes. Features on the top half a young boy with a reaping hook/sickle and a young girl holdin... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men cutting logs with a saw powered by an International Harvester gasoline engine on the farm of Casper Kaster. |
| Date: | 03 1924 |
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| Description: | Man sitting on a crate milking a cow by hand inside a barn on the farm of Hal Ament. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover's color illustration features a woman with a rake watching a ... |
| Date: | 11 26 1923 |
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| Description: | Farmer, possibly Walter Stange, cutting wood with a circular saw run by a 1 1/2 H.P. Type M McCormick-Deering gas engine. |
| Date: | 09 28 1931 |
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| Description: | Farmer Charles Nelson, carries a pail in front of the door to his barn. His 245 acre farm was southwest of Lake Wingra near Madison. It became the first pr... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | German farmers pulling a wooden log with a McCormick D-435 tractor against a mountainous backdrop in Alpine country. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of a man operating a hammer mill powered by a McCormick Super W-4 tractor in the doorway of a barn. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | R.A. Hayne on a ladder repairing a barn door. |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Possibly Louis J. Ropson, a farmer and violin maker from Luxemburg who lived in Dyckesville. |
| Date: | 08 08 1935 |
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| Description: | Men cutting firewood with a belt-driven saw powered by a McCormick-Deering Farmall F-30 tractor on the farm of Spencer Johnson. |
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| Description: | Barn raising at Lars Davidsen Reque's home. Crew members can be seen mortising freshly hewn timbers with a hand-operated boring machine. Men are also seen ... |
| Date: | 05 16 1928 |
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| Description: | Farmer cutting wood with a circular saw powered by a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A large family group and workers pose in field in front of farming machinery and haystacks. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Winner Melvin Walker at work during a sheep shearing competition. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster featuring color illustation of three men and a dog watching a farmer harvest grain with a horse-drawn Deering Ideal grain binder. The me... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A man demonstrates the farm hazard of chopping wood. |
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