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Farmer on McCormick-Deering Farmall H Tractor with Plow

Date: 1941
Description: Wayne Pattison working the fields of his two-hundred and eighty acre farm with a Farmall H tractor and a McCormick-Deering No. 7 disc plow. In the backgrou...
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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

McCormick Farmall Tractor H and Grain Drill

Date: 1950
Description: Farmers are unloading bags of seed from the back of an International L-series pickup truck in a field. A McCormick Farmall H tractor with attached grain dr...
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McCormick Farmall H Tractor with Mounted Cultivator

Date: 1948
Description: View towards a man in a field on a Farmall H tractor with a mounted cultivator, either at or near the company's experimental farm in Hinsdale.
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McCormick Farmall H Tractor and Grain Drill

Date: 
Description: View of a man in a field operating a McCormick Farmall H tractor with attached grain drill, either at or near the company's experimental farm in Hinsdale.
Photograph

McCormick Farmall C Tractor with Front-Mounted Cultivator

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man in a field operating a McCormick Farmall C tractor with front-mounted cultivator against a bright blue sky strewn with fluffy white clou...
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German Farmers Pull Log with McCormick D-435 Tractor

Date: 1960
Description: German farmers pulling a wooden log with a McCormick D-435 tractor against a mountainous backdrop in Alpine country.
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Farmall 450 Diesel Tractor

Date: 1957
Description: View of a man plowing a field with a McCormick Farmall 450 diesel tractor. Mountains are in the far background.
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Man Operating a Manure Spreader

Date: 1912
Description: A young man driving a two-horse manure spreader in a snowy field.
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Sloping Farmland

Date: 05 17 1966
Description: View uphill towards a farmer planting crops on a treeless slope which rises just beyond him, with a cloudy sky above. Various grasses are growing in the fo...
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Operating the Generator

Date: 03 1975
Description: "As a result of the storm some farms did not have electricity for five days. A generator was shared by many farmers and was moved from farm to farm so that...
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Spraying Cornfield

Date: 07 1990
Description: "Mark Lifke sprays corn in a field on Warner Road."
Book or Pamphlet

Canton Plows Advertisement

Date: 10 10 1909
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for P&O Canton plows, manufactured by Parlin and Orendorff. Includes an illustration of a farmer using a horse-drawn plow ...
Print

Why Best Tractors are Tracklayers

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of an advertisement for Best tractors featuring a color illustration of a man using a plow pulled by two oxen to work in a field. The headline ...
Photograph

International Truck and Tractors

Date: 1965
Description: Color photo of a man standing beside an International pickup truck while watching two tractors work in a field. A mountain range is in the background.
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field. Piles of sheaves are dotted throughout the hilly field. Hills and trees are in the far ...
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Faun at Peshtigo Brook Farm

Date: 09 1899
Description: The faun, standing up on its hind legs, is taking food from a man holding a cooking pot at Peshtigo Brook Farm. In the background is a building with an ope...
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Racing the Storm

Date: 1976
Description: Farmers head for the barn with a load of hay bales as a storm looms overhead. A hay baler is hitched between the tractor and the wagon. Farm buildings are ...

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