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Poster

Champion Harvesting Machines Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising poster for Champion brand agricultural machines, manufactured by Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company. The main illustration depicts a salesma...
Photograph

Hilgendorf Barn — Exterior

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Description: Lloyd and Kim Hilgendorf live at W2050 McArthur (Section 17). After working in the iron mines at Neda, Lloyds's great-grandfather, Whilhelm Hilgendorf, and...
Photograph

General Store

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Description: Four men, a dog and a boy sitting on the porch of the general store. Signs in the windows read, "Ferry & Co. Seeds" and "Rape seed for sale." A barn and wi...
Photograph

Men and Boys Waving near McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of men and boys waving in a field. One man is operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder. Another man and a boy are in a horse-drawn bug...
Photograph

C.R. Monroe and N.L. Ellis

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Description: Three photographer's wagons, two owned by C.R. Monroe and the other by N.L. Ellis, in front of tents in the countryside. Two men and a woman are posing sta...
Book or Pamphlet

Avery Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the 5-10 horsepower Avery tractor featuring an illustration of a man using the tractor on a farmstead. An inset illust...
Book or Pamphlet

Avery Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Avery tractors. A color illustration depicts a man using the tractor in a farm field. The caption at top reads: "The T...
Book or Pamphlet

Avery Tractor Standardized Line

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Avery tractor standardized line featuring a color illustration of a man using a tractor and plow in a field. The ...
Photograph

Men and Dog in Field with Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man and a dog are standing near a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field.
Photograph

Family Posing Around Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a man, three women, two children and a dog, posing near a man on a horse-drawn McCormick binder. Farm buildings are in the far ba...
Photograph

Farmall MD Tractor and Corn Picker

Date: 1949
Description: View of farmyard and farm buildings, with Clarence Schoger on a Farmall MD tractor with IHC corn picker and a wagon filled with ears of corn. Carl Schoger ...

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