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At Grandfather's House

Date: 1955
Description: A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs.
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Two Farmers Picking Corn

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Description: Two farmers kneel in a field picking corn and to load it into the open back of a horse-drawn wagon. Corn stalks and leaves litter the ground around the far...
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Woelfel Haystack

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Description: View of a farmer from top of straw stack. The man uses a fork to push down the straw as more is being blown onto the pile from a thresher. More men in work...
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Two Farmers Stringing Barbed Wire

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Description: Two farmers in overalls and brimmed hats string barbed wire along a fence next to a field. A dirt road can be seen on the right and a silo and barn are in ...
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Farmer Helping Newborn Calf in Field

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Description: A farmer helps a newborn calf in a field. The farmer is bending over the calf while the mother cow watches.
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Farmer Lifting Newborn Calf to its Feet

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Description: A farmer cradles and lifts a newborn calf to its feet in a field while the mother stands nearby.
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Woman Hoeing in Garden

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Description: A woman wearing a checkered dress uses a hoe in a small garden plot. Trees, shrubs, and an open field can be seen in the background.
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Farmer with Cow and Her Calf in Field

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Description: A farmer bends over a young calf in a field. The calf lays at the farmers feet, partially obscured by the long grass. The calf's mother stands nearby looki...
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Harvesting Onions

Date: 1965
Description: A farmer drives a tractor through a field harvesting onions.
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Field Irrigation

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Description: View to the horizon of a irrigation sprinkler system in an open field.
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Irrigating a Field

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Description: View of sprinklers irrigating a field of beans(?). The field is lined by pine trees in the background.
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Planting Pine Tree Seedlings

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Description: Four men prepare pine tree seedlings for planting in an open field. One man drives a small tractor, while two men stand behind. Another man sits on a tree ...
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Flock of White Turkeys

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Description: View of a flock of turkeys at a turkey farm. A worker can be seen pouring feed into large feed-buckets using a machine. The text on the side of the feed-bu...
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Planting Norway Pine Seedlings

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Description: Floyd Everett drives a tractor as Franklin Kempf plants Norway Pine seedlings using a tree planting trailer hitched to the back of the tractor.
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Transporting Beehives at Henry's Honey Farm

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Description: Side view of a truck and flatbed trailer transporting beehives at Henry's Honey Farm. The truck is parked on a road among an open fields lined by trees. Th...
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Farmer Steadying Newborn Calf in Field

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Description: A farmer holds a newborn calf steady as it stands with its mother in an open field. The mother cow nuzzles the calf.
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Tobacco Weeding

Date: 06 1968
Description: Farmer weeding in a tobacco field.
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Louie Suttner

Date: 1955
Description: Louie Suttner inspecting the wheat crop at his farm, the current site of the Fox River Mall.

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