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Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom...
Photograph

Farmer with Walking Planter

Date: 1925
Description: Farmer in a field walking behind a P&O planter drawn by a mule. There is an automobile on a road near a house behind a fence in the background.
Photograph

Washing Windows

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground.
Photograph

Wanda Lee Grace on Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: 16-year-old Wanda Lee Grace, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, driving her father's Farmall B tractor t...
Photograph

Man Entering Walk-In Cooler

Date: 1940
Description: A man carrying milk bottles stands at the doorway to a walk-in cooler at the Eubanks Dairy.
Photograph

Boy Milking Cow

Date: 1939
Description: A boy wearing a hat, boots, and overalls sits on a wooden stool to milk a cow by hand. The original caption reads: "Son of Thomas Ridgman, Dousman, Wis."
Photograph

Woman Milking Cow

Date: 1939
Description: Mrs. Harvey Schmidt sits on a stool in a barn to milk a cow by hand.
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...
Photograph

Man Making Adjustments to Plow

Date: 1921
Description: Close-up of a man's arm using a wrench to make adjustments to a P&O tractor plow hitched to a tractor.
Photograph

J.H. Gilchrist with Granddaughter in Cotton Field

Date: 1915
Description: J.H. Gilchrist, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, eyeglasses, and long coat, is standing in a cotton field on his farm to show his granddaughter, Lelia Sykes, th...
Photograph

Dangers of Moving Machinery

Date: 08 1927
Description: A man is climbing on a moving harvester-thresher (combine), illustrating an agricultural hazard for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Depart...
Photograph

Smoking Near Haystack

Date: 10 1926
Description: Two men are resting against a haystack while smoking pipes. The photograph was staged at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm to demonstrat...
Photograph

Woman Using Cream Separator

Date: 10 1923
Description: A woman using a cheesecloth to strain the contents of a bucket into a cream separator at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harvester Fa...
Photograph

Planting Pine Tree Seedlings

Date: 
Description: Four men prepare pine tree seedlings for planting in an open field. One man drives a small tractor, while two men stand behind. Another man sits on a tree ...
Photograph

Women with 123-SP Combine

Date: 1944
Description: Two women in a field with a McCormick-Deering 123-SP harvester-thresher (combine). An automobile is parked in the background on the left.
Print

Back of "Which Side Are You On?" Card

Date: 1888
Description: The back view of a farmer reaching over a fence. He stands next to wrecked farming machinery, and the words, "Which Side Of The Fence Are You On?" Other te...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Catalog Cover

Date: 1897
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man fixing a bicycle while a woman and two children look on. The woman's outfit sports "leg o' mutton" (or gig...
Photograph

In a Field of Sorghum

Date: 1902
Description: Jennie and Edgar Krueger are sitting on a stacked pile of harvested sorghum stalks. Edgar is holding a piece of the top of the plant in his hands. August, ...
Photograph

Husking Corn in a Cleared Field

Date: 1903
Description: Johanna, Jennie, Edgar, and William Krueger husking corn in a cleared cornfield. Corn shocks are scattered around the field. Farm buildings are in the far ...
Photograph

Husking Corn in the Barn

Date: 1910
Description: Frank and Anson Goetsch husking corn in the barn. A basket filled with husked corn os sitting on the ground between them.

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