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Hop Pickers

Date: 1879
Description: Hop harvesters, mostly female, stand with hops, probably on the farm of Knudt Heimdal. Many of the harvesters have hop wreaths on their heads. Two men with...
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Tobacco Field

Date: 08 24 1929
Description: A farmer is standing in a tobacco field, with crop ready to harvest. Farm buildings are in the background.
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Reaping Scene

Date: 1879
Description: Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings...
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Threshing Grain

Date: 1950
Description: A stationary McCormick-Deering thresher in action at the E.J. Shuster Farm.
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Man Standing in Clover

Date: 07 06 1940
Description: A man standing in field of high clover.
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Cultivator Demonstration

Date: 09 17 1936
Description: Slightly elevated view of a male worker in a field demonstrating a cultivator for the McKay Nursery. Other workers are in the field in the background.
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Combine Thresher and Tractor

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Two men are posing on a Nichols & Shepard combine thresher and Hart Parr tractor.
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Cutting Grain

Date: 08 02 1926
Description: Harvesting grain with horse-drawn machinery at Farm Colony, Wisconsin State Hospital for Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), Highway 113.
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Lunch Break

Date: 1915
Description: Field workers take a lunch break outdoors. The man holding the food is Frank Haack and the woman taking a bite is his sister-in-law, Anna Bollenbeck.
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Man Tending Corn Plants

Date: 10 1946
Description: Man in cornfield, tending a plant.
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Man in Field

Date: 10 1946
Description: Man (Mr. Goodyear?) holding a muskmelon in an agricultural field.
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Corn Binder in Field

Date: 1902
Description: Left side profile view of a farmer using a horse-drawn corn binder in a field.
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Youth Detasseling Corn

Date: 08 03 1949
Description: From left to right: Carole Ballinger, Joyce Anderson, and Nancy Toepfer detassel corn as part of their summer jobs.
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Farmers Helping Wesley Gordon

Date: 07 31 1952
Description: Wesley Gordon, unable to do his farm work due to hospitalization, was helped by about 30 neighbors to take care of Gordon's 35 acres of grain. They brought...
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Men at the Brigham Farm

Date: 04 21 1911
Description: Group of men and a young boy breaking hemp at the Brigham farm.
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We Are Power Farmers

Date: 1924
Description: A middle-aged man stands holding an agricultural implement in a field of tobacco plants. A sign next to him reads: "We Are Power Farmers Using Fordson Trac...
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Man Using No. 2 Ensilage Harvester with Farmall M Tractor

Date: 1947
Description: View across harvested cornfield towards a man using a Farmall M tractor to pull a No. 2 ensilage harvester and wagon and box on the Bowman Dairy Farm. Farm...

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