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Dale Farm

Date: 
Description: A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption...
Photograph

Feeding Milk to a Calf

Date: 
Description: A farming man and woman holding a horse and feeding milk to a baby cow.
Photograph

Man and Boy on Manure Spreader in Field

Date: 1911
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.
Photograph

Two Men Loading Manure Spreader

Date: 1911
Description: Panoramic view of two men loading a horse-drawn manure spreader (possibly a Kemp) in a field.
Photograph

Mogul Jr. Engine and Keystone Corn Sheller

Date: 1915
Description: A man in open doorway of a farm building using a Mogul Jr. 1 H.P. stationary engine to power a belt-driven Keystone corn sheller.
Photograph

Mogul Stationary Engine

Date: 1916
Description: Men standing in a farmyard with a Mogul engine running what appears to be a belt-driven ensilage cutter, which is near the open door of a barn.
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Men with Corn Harvest

Date: 1908
Description: Men with a mule team pulling a wagon beside bins filled with ears of corn. One of the men appears to be holding a goose near the pile of corn.
Photograph

Workers Raking Hay

Date: 1937
Description: Man with a horse-drawn hay rake in a field. Other field workers gather hay by hand in the background. Original caption reads, "raking heavy timothy hay int...
Photograph

Man on Reynolds Tedder

Date: 1919
Description: Man on a Reynolds hay tedder pulled by team of work horses. Another man stands supervising. In the far background beyond a fence are two separate farmstead...
Photograph

Man Riding on Hay Rake

Date: 1936
Description: Man seated on hay rake pulled by two work horses. Original caption reads, "raking alsike clover with new McCormick-Deering Sulky rake owned and operated by...
Photograph

Group of People with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A group of people are posing around a man operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. In the background are farm buildings and several trees...

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