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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Men cutting and gathering grain by hand. One man appears to be holding a scythe, or possibly a cradle. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across cutover land of a man or young boy driving a horse-drawn mower. There is a tall tree trunk behind the horses. Another man or young boy is stand... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of two men loading a horse-drawn manure spreader (possibly a Kemp) in a field. |
| Date: | 09 1927 |
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| Description: | A man standing in an endgate lime spreader is using a shovel to spread lime onto a field at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. The sprea... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Rear view of three men wearing hats, and pants with suspenders, using grain cradles to harvest a field crop. Multiple buildings, including a barn, are on a... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat and suspenders is using an axe to slaughter a chicken, using a log as a base. A large pile of firewood is behind him. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A man is using an axe to butcher a chicken on a tree stump. A large pile of firewood is in the background. |
| Date: | 12 11 1983 |
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| Description: | Delmer Staus of Waukesha County shoveling contents of one of his cow barns into a manure spreader. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | 6-year-old Kirk Hanna uses a lasso to practice cattle roping on a pair of bull horns affixed to a log in a barnyard. A horse is tied to a fence on the righ... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and wide-brimmed hat is emptying water from one pail into another beside a hand-cranked well. The photograph was taken on the John ... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using an axe to chop wood in a rural area. A pile of logs is in the background. |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 07 24 1923 |
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| Description: | A man is using a 10-20(?) tractor and chain to remove a stump from a piece of land on the R.R. Robertson farm. Two other men are looking on. |
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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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| Description: | Six men of the Spiegel family stand outdoors around a long wooden table butchering chickens. The table is covered with large steel pots and pieces of meat.... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of men and boys threshing. They are using a tractor for a belt-driven threshing machine, and on the left two horses pull a wagon with large barrels. |
| Date: | 08 29 1967 |
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| Description: | A group of people sit and stand outdoors with a group of baskets at a collective farm near Phat Diem, North Vietnam, visited by American journalist David S... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men with a horse-drawn mower in a field. One man is working with a hand implement in a pile of hay, and another is sitting in a horse-drawn carriage in the... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | One man is operating a grain binder pulled by two horses, while three other men and a boy are working in the field near him. One man is holding a cradle us... |
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