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Dale Farm

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Description: A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption...
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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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The Threshing Crew

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Description: Wisconsin threshing crew, with steam operated tractor, in Buffalo county.
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Men Using Tractor and Threshing Machine

Date: 1897
Description: Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a...
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Tobacco Harvest

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Description: Men in field with tobacco on wagon, and a barn and an outbuilding in the background. This is Lewis Dahl's tobacco harvest in back of his father's home (Nel...
Painting

Residence of Mr. Martin Lutscher

Date: 1875
Description: Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s...
Photograph

Corn Binder with Shocker

Date: 1902
Description: Four men stand next to a horse-drawn corn binder in a cornfield. A shock of corn is suspended in the air with a corn shocker. Two of the men have light-col...
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Mule Drawn Binder

Date: 1905
Description: Corn binder hitched to two mules in field in Algeria. In the distance are low hills. One bearded man, wearing what appears to be a full-length hooded jella...
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Deering Ideal Corn Binder

Date: 1911
Description: A man and three children gather around a man operating a horse-drawn Deering Ideal corn binder in E. Nyquist's cornfield.
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Thresher

Date: 1917
Description: A group of farmers feeds grain into a thresher with a horse-drawn wagon nearby.
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New Osborne Grain Binder

Date: 07 31 1912
Description: A farmer operates a horse-drawn Osborne grain binder through a field. The original caption reads: "Emerson-Brantingham."
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Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1902
Description: A man operating a horse-drawn McCormick corn binder on Swift Ranch.
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Grain Binder in Field

Date: 1905
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.
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Men in Field Harvesting Hay

Date: 1918
Description: Three men on the ground lift a large pile of hay to two men on a wagon drawn by two horses.
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Men Harvesting Hay in Field

Date: 1915
Description: Three men using pitchforks to lift hay onto a wagon drawn by two horses.
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Harvesting Grain

Date: 07 20 1921
Description: Horse-drawn cart stacked with grain shocks out in a field. One man is standing on top of the already stacked grain, while another man is passing shocks up.
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Farmers with Large Haystack

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Description: Several farmers posing with a very large haystack. A man identified as "Uncle Dave" is standing on top of the hay.
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Horse-drawn Buggy Approaching Farmer on McCormick Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A farmer is operating a McCormick grain binder pulled by two horses in a field. A young child wearing a wide-brimmed hat is watching, and a horse-drawn bug...
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Horse-Drawn Binder and Buggy in Field

Date: 1899
Description: A farmer operates a horse-drawn grain binder in a field while another man in work clothes looks on. Two men in dress clothes sit in a buggy in the same fie...
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New Osborne Binder

Date: 08 10 1914
Description: A man sitting on top of an Osborne grain binder pulled by three horses. A man in a straw hat, tie, and vest is standing to the left holding cut grain. Hou...

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