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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... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harold F. McCormick family, farm laborers, and various animals on the Walnut Grove estate at Raphine, Virginia. Harold McCormick was the son of Cyrus Hall ... |
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| Description: | Woman sitting on a Farmall B tractor with attached corn planter talking with International Harvester dealers Henry Brosnahan, Manager (left), and Jack Call... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Ingrid Bengtson bringing lunch to the field to help her husband, Norman, get the planting done faster. They are having lunch on top of the McCormick Intern... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three women and a man dumping the beans they've picked into wooden containers at a vegetable garden northwest of Chicago. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Farm woman operating a McCormick-Deering portable gasoline engine. The engine is driving a pump to draw water from a well into a homemade trough. Another w... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering and Company farm machinery. Features an illustration of a young woman in a wheat field surrounded by bi... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back... |
| Date: | 08 02 1903 |
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| Description: | Group of well-dressed people posing outdoors at Uncle Herman's farm. Harry Dankoler is the man in the middle holding the shutter release mechanism. On the ... |
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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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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 05 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Helen Hall, secretary at the Youth Hostel headquarters on the Samuel Post farm on Middleton Road, near Shorewood Hills. |
| Date: | 09 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Three farm wives are taking a break at the terrace plowing demonstration and conservation field day on the Carl Ribbke farm near Ableman. From left are Mr... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A man and two women gather grain bundled by a grain binder at work in the background. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Farm scene including a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder, people, a farmhouse, and a barn. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A 17-year-old woman operates a horse-drawn 7 foot McCormick grain binder on the 320 acre farm of J.E. Parrish. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Four men and a woman gather around a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. Two men are sitting in a horse-drawn wagon. |
| Date: | 07 04 1936 |
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| Description: | A woman operating a horse-drawn No. 7 mower owned by R.M. Howard from Dundas, Ontario. She is cutting a mixed crop of timothy hay, lucerne and clover. |
| Date: | 08 26 1917 |
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| Description: | Barn, silos and cows at a farm. There are men attending to the cows, while the women and children are attending to the milk cans. |
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