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Photograph

Unloading Oats at Stock Pavillon

Date: 12 09 1929
Description: Unloading oats at the Stock Pavillon. In front a man is standing on a horse-drawn wagon near a tractor powering a grain elevator.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler Demonstration

Date: 10 06 1937
Description: C.L. Thompson, a McCormick-Deering dealer explains a milk cooler, which is loaded on a trailer hauled by an International truck, to Wayne Wakefield. Both m...
Photograph

Milking Machine Sale

Date: 06 03 1937
Description: Ralph Lower, dairy equipment salesman from International Harvester's Syracuse branch, sells a farmer a milking machine at Cedardale Stock Farm. A McCormick...
Print

La Crosse Tractor Advertisement

Date: 
Description: La Crosse Tractor Advertisement with multiple inserts.
Photograph

Livestock Auction

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a livestock auction. Men and young boys stand around a cattle pen viewing a cow at a livestock auction. The men are dressed in hats and co...
Photograph

Packaging Onions

Date: 1965
Description: Farmers package onions for shipping. Two women and a man pack and sew closed mesh bags of onions. Another man hoists full bags onto a conveyor belt, while ...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Tillage Tools

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for tillage tools, featuring a photo of a man in a field with a Farmall M tractor and a disk harrow. Also includes the text...
Book or Pamphlet

Remy Tractor Division Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by the Remy Electric Company's Tractor Equipment Division advertising "An Easier Day's Work" through the use of farm mac...
Book or Pamphlet

Samson Tractor Brochure

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by the Samson Tractor Company, a division of General Motors Corporation, to advertise the Samson Model-M Tractor. The co...
Book or Pamphlet

Samson Corn Planters Brochure

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by the Samson Tractor Company, a division of General Motors Corporation, to advertise corn planters.
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin Farm Tractor Booklet

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet produced by the Wisconsin Farm Tractor Sales Company. The cover features the text "Wisconsin Farm Tractor" along with an illustrat...
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin Farm Tractor Booklet

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet produced by the Wisconsin Farm Tractor Sales Company featuring a color illustration of a farmer working a field with ...
Book or Pamphlet

Moline-Universal Tractor At Work

Date: 1921
Description: Interior pages of a pamphlet advertising the Moline-Universal tractor featuring photographs of the tractor at work on farms.
Photograph

Tourist Stop

Date: 1925
Description: View across road of seven young men posing outside of a variety store. Two men have tires placed over their shoulders. The store's sign advertises: "Touris...
Manuscript

Oliver Hart-Paar Tractor Booklet

Date: 1937
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Oliver Hart-Paar tractors featuring a color illustration of a farmer using a tractor and plow in a field.
Book or Pamphlet

Kardell 4-in-1 Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Pamphlet advertising the Kardell 4-in-1 tractor, featuring a photograph of the machinery as well as inset illustrations of the tractor in use on a farm.
Book or Pamphlet

Parrett Tractor Pamphlet Back Cover

Date: 1900
Description: Back cover of a pamphlet advertising the Parrett tractor, featuring a photograph of a man using the tractor on a farm. The text reads: "The Parrett Tractor...
Book or Pamphlet

Parrett 15-30 Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Parrett 15-30 tractor featuring a color illustration of a man using the tractor and plow in a farm field set agai...
Print

Peoria Tractor Company Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of an advertisement for the Peoria Tractor Company featuring the silhouettes of a barn and a farmer on a tractor against a setting sun and an i...
Print

America's Greatest Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the 15-30 Parrett tractor featuring a side view color illustration of the tractor. In the background on the left is a man using a plow on...

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