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Loading a Wagon

Date: 01 1916
Description: A farmer shoveling corn stalks from a field into a wagon.
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Tall-tale Postcard: Beating the Coal Trust

Date: 1912
Description: Photomontage of a man sawing a giant ear of corn as though it was a log. Beside him an ax is wedged in a stump-like piece of corn. A mound of giant ears ...
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Mogul 10-20 H.P. Tractor with Silo Filler

Date: 1916
Description: A group of men use the power take-off of a Mogul 10-20 H.P. tractor to operate a silo filler.
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Corn Husker Shredder and Farmall Regular Tractor

Date: 12 29 1928
Description: A team of two horses with a wagon, and a Farmall Regular tractor, standing next to farmers as they are using a corn husker shredder outside a barn, possibl...
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Husker and Shredder

Date: 1921
Description: Two men are working with a husker-shredder near a silo and barn. One of the men is shoveling corn stalks from a wagon.
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Men with Husker and Shredder

Date: 1915
Description: Men loading corn stalks from a horse-drawn wagon into a husker-shredder. A ladder is in the right foreground and corn husks cover the ground.
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Crew of Men with Husker and Shredder

Date: 1915
Description: A crew of men standing with a wagon and a husker-shredder near a barn. A sixth man in a dark coat and hat is standing under the ladder leaning against the ...
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Joe Bear Heart near Table of Drying Corn

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Description: Lantern slide of a Ho-Chunk man wearing a hat posing standing behind a table loaded with kernels of corn on a cloth drying by a wooden building. The man is...
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Seminole Women Grinding Corn

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Description: A view of two Seminole Native American women grinding corn for "Sofka," a meat stew thickened with vegetables and meal. A man and dog are on the left. Capt...
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Man Loading Wagon with Corn Stalks

Date: 10 22 1922
Description: Man in field loading a horse-drawn wagon with silage corn.
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Men Filling Silo

Date: 1916
Description: Two men are loading silage into ensilage cutter and blower to fill a silo.
Book or Pamphlet

Men with Corn Harvest

Date: 1908
Description: Men with a mule team pulling a wagon beside bins filled with ears of corn. One of the men appears to be holding a goose near the pile of corn.
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Men Loading Wagon

Date: 1920
Description: View across a field of two men loading corn into a horse-drawn wagon. On the right are corn shocks.
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Teachers Constructing Germination Box

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers working outdoors using tools to construct a sawdust germination box for corn.
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Two Men Operating McCormick Corn Husker-Shredder

Date: 1900
Description: Two men are operating a McCormick husker-shredder. One man is feeding corn from a pile into the machine with a pitchfork. The shredded husks are being shot...
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Round Silo

Date: 1895
Description: A twenty-five foot high round silo featured on the farm of F.D. Parish, 4.5 miles southeast of Waupaca. The silo is twenty feet in diameter. Two men are ge...
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Men Harvesting with a Vertical Stationary Engine

Date: 1911
Description: A man on the right is standing and leaning against a large cart which contains a vertical stationary engine. Three men on the left are working in the backg...
Book or Pamphlet

Eagle Silo Filler

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Eagle steel frame silo filler featuring a color illustration of two farmers using the filler.
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Summer Construction

Date: 08 17 1958
Description: Building for a new “supermarket” food and household necessities store, under construction on the outskirts of the Milwaukee area. In the background is a ba...
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Man Using Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1947
Description: Elevated view looking down at a man using a Farmall Cub tractor to belt-drive a corn sheller. The man is inside the open doorway of a farm building bent ov...

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