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Waiting For Pure Fresh Milk

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph of a posed scene showing a woman milking a cow as two other women stand waiting at an open barn door. On the left a man at a hand-pump is behin...
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African American Farmers Touring Tractor Works

Date: 11 29 1948
Description: Twenty-five members of the "Negro Farmers of America" tour a crawler tractor (TracTracTor) assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The fa...
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Oliver Chilled Plow Works Advertisement

Date: 1883
Description: Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f...
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McCormick-Deering Engine Advertising Poster

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering engines. Includes photographic illustrations of an engine powering a water pump, washing machine, and cement mixer...
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Farmer Cuts Firewood

Date: 11 26 1923
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.
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WR-9 "Rice Field Special" Tractor

Date: 1948
Description: Farmers using a McCormick-Deering WR-9 tractor to haul a trailer loaded with timber. The words "rice field special" are on the tractor.
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Men Cut Firewood with Belt-Driven Saw

Date: 08 08 1935
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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Farmer Cuts Wood with Power Saw

Date: 05 16 1928
Description: Farmer cutting wood with a circular saw powered by a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine.
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Farmer Skidding Logs with Oxen

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Description: Farmer skidding logs with a team of oxen.
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Simmins' Apiary

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Description: A portion of Simmins' home apiary. Two men working with bees, plus a few buildings, which are (from left to right): the factory, the apiary workshop, the e...
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McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Advertising Card

Date: 1886
Description: Inside of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company advertising card. Features color illustrations demonstrating the development of harvesting technology, in...
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Farm Hazard: Chopping Wood

Date: 1926
Description: A man demonstrates the farm hazard of chopping wood.
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Korean Farmer Hauling Wood

Date: 1958
Description: Korean farmer hauling wood for fuel on his back with an "A-frame." Original caption reads: "One ocean away, one century behind, the Korean farmer saddles h...
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Two Men in Field Shaking Hands

Date: 1922
Description: A man seated on a Deering grain binder shakes hands with a man standing and smoking a cigar. The man with the cigar may be an International Harvester deale...
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Women Farmers

Date: 1918
Description: Two women dressed as farmers stand next to a Deering push binder with a cigar and a pipe in their mouths.
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Farmall MV on Farm

Date: 1943
Description: The caption for this photograph states that this Farmall MV tractor is "shown at work on the 2800-acre Triangle Farm near McCall, Louisiana, some 1800 acre...
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Farmall MD Tractor with Little Genius Plow

Date: 1941
Description: View from right of Clem J. Reynolds using a Farmall MD tractor and a No. 8 Little Genius plow to work in a field. Farm buildings and livestock are in the b...
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The La Crosse Tractor Advertisement

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Description: The La Crosse Tractor Advertisement with schematic. A photograph at the top shows men with tractors and wagons advertising the "Kansas City Tractor Show." ...
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Shey and Strand Ranch near Deansville

Date: 05 04 1950
Description: Ed Shey, left, and Peter "Pete" Strand are pictured at their 271-acre hobby "ranch" near Deansville where they are experimenting with raising buffalo, rare...
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Shey and Strand Ranch Near Deansville

Date: 05 04 1950
Description: Ed Shey is pictured with his pet coyote, Wolf, on the 271-acre hobby "ranch" he owns with Peter "Pete" Strand near Deansville. The coyote came from Nebrask...

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