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At Grandfather's House

Date: 1955
Description: A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs.
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Tillage Implement Catalog

Date: 1915
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Osborne line of tillage implements showing a farmer and son in a field with a horse-drawn dis...
Photograph

Farmer Grinds Corn with Belt-Driven Feed Grinder

Date: 1930
Description: Farmer John Atkins grinding corn with a belt-driven feed grinder powered by a McCormick-Deering Farmall tractor. Mr. Atkins' son and daughter look on.
Photograph

Family and Workers in Field

Date: 1895
Description: A large family group and workers pose in field in front of farming machinery and haystacks.
Photograph

Adults and Children Watching Farmer Operating McCormick Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A farmer is operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. A group of people, including two adults and four children, are looking on. The femal...
Photograph

Drilling Wheat

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of two men using agricultural machinery to drill (plant) wheat. "Superior" sign is on the machinery. A boy and a dog stand nearby. A horse an...
Photograph

J.H. Gilchrist with Granddaughter in Cotton Field

Date: 1915
Description: J.H. Gilchrist, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, eyeglasses, and long coat, is standing in a cotton field on his farm to show his granddaughter, Lelia Sykes, th...
Photograph

Children Too Near Grain Binder

Date: 07 1927
Description: Two children are walking closely behind a man operating a grain binder pulled by a team of four horses through a field, illustrating the dangers of standin...
Photograph

Men and Child With Automatic Self-Rake Reaper

Date: 1900
Description: A girl wearing a dress and hat is carrying a metal pail towards men using a McCormick automatic self-rake reaper in a field.
Photograph

Woman and Children in Cornfield

Date: 07 04 1919
Description: A woman and two children stand in a cornfield at an International Harvester Company demonstration farm. Farm buildings appear in the background.
Photograph

4-Row Corn Planter Demonstration

Date: 04 28 1932
Description: A group of men, women, and children are standing in a field at an International Harvester Company farm to watch a 4-row corn planter demonstration.
Photograph

Dry Cranberry Picking

Date: 
Description: Cranberry pickers in a Wisconsin marsh. The pickers include women and children.
Photograph

Strikers in Cucumber Field

Date: 1967
Description: A group of young migrant farm laborers leaving a cucumber field in a Chevy station wagon for a union rally in Portage. Three children are looking at the ca...
Photograph

Strikers Leaving Field

Date: 1967
Description: Migrant farm laborers leaving a cucumber field to strike. Strikes in Wisconsin were organized by the local farm-worker labor union, Obreros Unidos, an inde...
Postcard

Hops Farming

Date: 1908
Description: Hops farming, most likely in California. Pictured among the large plants and trellises are farm workers, both children and adults. Caption reads: "Hop Pick...
Photograph

Haystacks

Date: 1910
Description: A man is standing among four large haystacks, and a young girl is siting posing on the top of the haystack on the right.
Book or Pamphlet

J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company Advertisement

Date: 1925
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company's line of tractors. The cover features a color illustration of a farmer using ...
Photograph

Man Posing with Child on Tractor

Date: 
Description: A man and child pose sitting on a tractor in a farmyard. In the background is a barn, and piles of hay behind a fence on the right. In the far background i...

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