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Surface Digging

Date: 
Description: Lead mining by digging at the ground surface.
Photograph

Farmstead with McCormick Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Scenic view of rural farmstead with horse-drawn McCormick grain binder and wagon in field in front of farmhouse.
Photograph

Farmer Harvests Grain on Steep Hill with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of a farmer harvesting grain on a hill or ridge with a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder near Pittsburgh. In the background is a va...
Photograph

Combine on Hilly Terrain

Date: 09 09 1926
Description: Farmers harvesting with a combine on hilly terrain with a horse-drawn no. 7 Hillside combine on the farm of J.B. McMurray.
Photograph

Harvesting Grain on Farm Hillside

Date: 09 21 1926
Description: Farmers harvesting grain with horse-drawn McCormick-Deering no. 7 Hillside harvester-thresher (combine). The hillside machine incorporated a leveling devic...
Photograph

Experimental Combine Harvesting Grain

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view of men harvesting grain with a McCormick-Deering 12 foot experimental combine (harvester-thresher) pulled by a Farmall M tractor. There is a ...
Photograph

Man with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man is farming a hillside using a McCormick grain binder led by a team of two horses.
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Photograph

Farmers Waiting to Ship Harvest

Date: 09 1902
Description: Elevated view of farmers with horse-drawn wagons waiting to ship their harvest goods, probably potatoes, at an unidentified town. There are railroad tracks...
Postcard

Tobacco Field, Near Edgerton

Date: 1933
Description: Black and white photographic postcard (with colored sky) of farmers in a tobacco field ready for harvest. Caption reads: "Tobacco Field, Near Edgerton, Wis...
Photograph

Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Dennis Bayles, his son-in-law, Le Verne Kirking, and two of the Kirking children, Ann Denise and Duane, trudging through the snow to cut pine branches from...
Postcard

Greetings from Spring Green

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Spring Green, Wis." On the reverse it reads: "Lush Farm Land." Elevated view of a farmer on a tractor in a large corn ...

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