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Husking Corn

Date: 1903
Description: Elevated view of the Krueger family husking corn. From right to left are: Mary, Sarah, August, Florentina, and Jennie Krueger. A dog is lying on the ground...
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American Farm Yard In Winter

Date: 1866
Description: Stereograph of woman, man and child outdoors on a farm with snow on the ground. The woman is wearing bloomers and is holding a bucket in the process of doi...
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Dining Room at Lumber Camp

Date: 1885
Description: Dining room, probably at D. Sullivan's lumber camp.
Poster

Titan Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster of World War I veteran returning home to family, farm and new Titan 10-20 tractor. The caption on the poster reads: "Look what dad bough...
Photograph

Farmers Harvesting Grain with McCormick Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: European farmers and young boy harvesting grain with horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field in front of a large mansion or institutional complex.
Photograph

Farmer Pouring Milk for Son

Date: 03 1924
Description: Farmer Hal Ament pouring milk from a pail into a glass for his young son as they stand at the gate of their farmhouse.
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At Grandfather's House

Date: 1955
Description: A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs.
Postcard

Farm Family

Date: 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of a farm couple and their daughter posing outdoors in front of a barn.
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Kern Family at the Supper Table

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: The Kern family, Edna, Nancy, Ernest, and Maribeth, at the supper table.
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Weighing a Turkey

Date: 11 1947
Description: A worker at Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, is weighing a turkey as two girls are looking on.
Poster

International Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1951
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks featuring a color illustration of a truck driver talking to a young boy. An International semi-truck is parked ...
Photograph

Harvesting Scene

Date: 1915
Description: Harvesting scene with groups of men, women, and boys and multiple reapers hitched to oxen. Foothills or mountains are in the background, behind a row of t...
Photograph

Three Lumberjacks

Date: 
Description: Three lumberjacks posing with their tools and a little girl. From right to left are Jule "Buck" Allen," Neil Hauger, and unidentified.
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Woman with Four Children

Date: 
Description: Woman sitting with three girls and one boy in a room, probably a farm family.
Photograph

Steam Shovel in Gravel Pit

Date: 07 18 1913
Description: Workers and a boy, Edgar Walch, posing on and around a steam shovel in the quarry at Eagle View Bluff. Edgar's father, Engelbert Walch, owned the steam sho...
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Tractor Demonstration on the H.R. Clark Farm

Date: 08 13 1927
Description: Two men, one of them possibly H.R. Clark, sitting with two boys on a tractor. All of them are wearing overalls and floppy hats.
Photograph

Milk Delivery Man

Date: 01 17 1948
Description: Milk delivery man in work clothes being greeted at the door of a residence by a woman and young girl as he delivers milk and dairy products. Shown in the ...
Photograph

Chesem Farm

Date: 1932
Description: A child looks on as two farmers, one of whom is possibly M.C. Mather, use a Farmall Regular(?) tractor to power a Ronning dump blower to fill a silo at Che...
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Farming Family in Yard

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Description: Portrait of an unidentified farm family in a fenced yard.
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Farming Family in Wagon

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Description: An unidentified farming family sitting in a wagon.

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