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Milwaukee Harvesting Equipment Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster showing a Milwaukee brand mower, grain binder, hay rake and reaper manufactured by International Harvester Company. Features a color ill...
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Peter Lagacy Family

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Description: The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom...
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Dale Farm

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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...
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Harvesting Grain with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Several farmers and farm laborers, including a handful of children, at work harvesting grain with a McCormick grain binder in a field.
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Farmer Harvesting Grain with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: European(?) farmer harvesting grain with a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder as a young girl with water jug looks on. Two farm hands are in the background...
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Young Girl on F-12 Tractor

Date: 07 06 1937
Description: Beverly Lundsten and hired man Gerald Stanford pose with a Farmall F-12 tractor on the Lundsten farm. The tractor is equipped with rubber tires and a singl...
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Farmer and Son on F-12 Tractor

Date: 10 27 1936
Description: Farmer Sam Tanaka posing with his son on a Farmall F-12 tractor in a cauliflower field.
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Women and Children Watch Men Work in Field

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Description: Children, men with hats, and women with parasols, are watching men work in a field with a horse-drawn plow and other agricultural equipment. A house is in...
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Boy and Men in Field with Rake Reaper

Date: 1873
Description: A boy and three men are in a field in the foreground with a manual rake reaper and other harvesting tools. Various farmstead buildings, a fence and Lombard...
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Ole Wettlesen with Horse on his Farm

Date: 1874
Description: In 1845, Ole Wettlesen and his wife Thorbjor and family left Laardal, Telemark, Norway, for America, eventually settling in Dane County. There, Ole establi...
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Indians Thresh Wheat

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Description: Indians thresh the first wheat at the Sac and Fox Agency in Iowa.
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Farm Laborers with Reaper

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Description: A crew of farm laborers take a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman offers food and drinks. They are posed in front of a reaper with the family ...
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Boy and Girl Working in the Field

Date: 1917
Description: A girl and a boy doing field work beside a wagon.
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Family Weeding Garden

Date: 08 1914
Description: John Van Ness and his niece and nephew removing weeds from their "truck patch." Mr. Van Ness is using a hoe.
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Deering Grain Binder

Date: 1910
Description: Men and children gather around a Deering grain binder pulled by two horses.
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Deering Ideal Corn Binder

Date: 1911
Description: A man and three children gather around a man operating a horse-drawn Deering Ideal corn binder in E. Nyquist's cornfield.
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Field Workers

Date: 1910
Description: A group of workers stack corn shocks in a field while a small child and dog stand in the foreground. A horse-drawn corn binder is in the background.
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Grain Binders in Field

Date: 1902
Description: A group of farmers, including several young girls and boys, using two horse-drawn McCormick grain binders to harvest a crop.
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Corn Binder in Field

Date: 1902
Description: Two men standing by a corn binder in a field while a young girl is sitting on a horse.
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Plano Husker-Shredder Transport

Date: 1910
Description: Men use a tractor to pull a Plano husker-shredder while a small boy peeks over the top of the machine.

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