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Book or Pamphlet

More and Better Potatoes to the Acre

Date: 06 15 1932
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to help farmers improve their potato crops. Includes an illustra...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Our Barn is Full

Date: 1912
Description: Several women and a man are outside of a barn, which is overflowing with giant onions, corn, and potatoes. A ladder is placed against the large stack of on...
Photograph

Family Farming

Date: 1942
Description: Slightly elevated view of Louis Finn and his five sons and three daughters working on their 150-acre potato farm with a Farmall tractor, a potato digger an...
Photograph

Sorting Potatoes

Date: 
Description: Potatoes going from truck to sorting machine at the Mumbrue farm. Roy Roth and George Mumbrue stand next to the machine in front of a barn.
Photograph

Elmer Tompkin Driving Farmall M with No. 12 Two-Row Digger

Date: 1940
Description: View from rear of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elmer Merrill's 400-acre ...
Photograph

Elmer Tompkin Driving Farmall M with No. 12 Two-Row Digger

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elme...
Photograph

Mr. Bagley on Farmall M

Date: 1940
Description: Alden G. Bagley driving a Farmall M pulling a wagon loaded with barrels of seed potatoes. Behind him is his 6,000 barrel storage house.
Photograph

Potato Harvest

Date: 1950
Description: A man is harvesting potatoes using a John Deere tractor and a John Deere single row potato harvester.

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