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African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing...
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Farmer on Tractor

Date: 04 03 1930
Description: Photograph of a drawing of a farmer on a tractor.
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Farmer Harvesting Corn with McCormick-Deering Corn Picker

Date: 12 04 1926
Description: Farmer harvesting corn with a McCormick-Deering two-row corn picker attached to a Farmall Regular tractor. The farmer is smoking a pipe.
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First McCormick Reaper Re-Enactment

Date: 1929
Description: Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi...
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First McCormick Reaper Re-Enactment

Date: 1929
Description: Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi...
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Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back...
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Two Men in Field Shaking Hands

Date: 1922
Description: A man seated on a Deering grain binder shakes hands with a man standing and smoking a cigar. The man with the cigar may be an International Harvester deale...
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Women Farmers

Date: 1918
Description: Two women dressed as farmers stand next to a Deering push binder with a cigar and a pipe in their mouths.
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Farmers Union Meeting Near Lake

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Description: Farmers Union School gathering at Highlander. A.A. Liveright smoking a pipe and holding a camera, left; Paul Bennett, right.
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Farmers Union Workshop Session

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Description: Farmers Union workshop at Southern Alabama. Tom Ludwig is third from the right. They are possibly recording a conversation.
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Family Reading the "Union Farmer"

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Description: A family reading the newspaper "Union Farmer" together.
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Small Group Meeting at Highlander

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Description: A small group meeting at Highlander. From left to right: J.C. McAmis, TVA; Myles Horton, Tennessee Farmers Union; Mr. H.N. Hatley, Tennessee Farmers Union...
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Gaylord Nelson With Farmers

Date: 1963
Description: Nelson casually talks with two farmers outdoors in front of a cow pen.
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Clarence L. Dauberman Farm

Date: 07 31 1941
Description: People gathered around a Farmall Regular tractor on the farm of Clarence L. Dauberman. Original caption reads: "Sydney G. McAllister, chairman, executive c...
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Shey and Strand Ranch near Deansville

Date: 05 04 1950
Description: Ed Shey, left, and Peter "Pete" Strand are pictured at their 271-acre hobby "ranch" near Deansville where they are experimenting with raising buffalo, rare...
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Shey and Strand Ranch Near Deansville

Date: 05 04 1950
Description: Ed Shey is pictured with his pet coyote, Wolf, on the 271-acre hobby "ranch" he owns with Peter "Pete" Strand near Deansville. The coyote came from Nebrask...
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Crop Drying Demonstration

Date: 03 31 1927
Description: Men use an International tractor to power a belt for work with hay. A ladder leans against a large haystack in the background with a sign reading: "Crop Dr...
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Men with Cows and Cream Separator

Date: 08 18 1922
Description: Two men are standing and holding a bull and a cow on the farm of Jerry Bacon. An International Harvester cream separator is between the men, and a barn is ...
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Farmall H with Military Tank

Date: 1943
Description: A man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe sits on a Farmall H tractor while a uniformed man stands on the top of a military tank. Two more men are sitting in ...
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Men with Mogul 25 H.P. Tractor and Grain Binders

Date: 1912
Description: Men sit on a line of three McCormick grain binders hitched to a Mogul 25 h.p. tractor in a field. A young boy sits near a haystack in the foreground, and t...

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