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Photograph

Men Using Tractor and Threshing Machine

Date: 1897
Description: Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company, manufacturers of harvesting machinery. The cover features a framed inset of a scene of...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Advertising Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Advertising catalog for grain cutting (harvesting) machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features an illustration of children sitting with...
Photograph

Native American Dwelling

Date: 
Description: A view of a small wooden building with a group of people standing in front. A man on the right stands with a horse, and in the center are a woman, a young ...
Photograph

Reynolds' Farm Yard

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Description: Marjorie Quinney and Henry and Howard Reynolds stand in front of the Reynold's family farmhouse with two horses and a dog.
Photograph

Street Scene Looking North

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Description: View down street with homes and shops on either side. In the street is a man on a horse, a dog, and two horses and carriages. On the left by Doctor Ruby's ...
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

McCormick Hay Rake

Date: 1913
Description: Rear view of a young boy driving a team of horses pulling a hay rake. In the far background a man is riding a mower behind another team of horses coming fr...
Photograph

Roddy House

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Description: View across lawn of the Roddy House. A young girl is posing in the yard standing and displaying a pony, a young man is sitting with a dog near the porch st...
Historical Object

Joy Camps Counselors Group Portrait

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Scrapbook displaying two photographs. The top is a group portrait of the counselors who worked at Joy Camps in the summer of 1949...
Print

Empire Mower and Reaper

Date: 1893
Description: Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “...
Photograph

Men Using Horse-Drawn Mowers in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View across partially harvested field towards a group of people posing. On the left are what may be young children posing on a horse-drawn vehicle. A man i...
Photograph

McCormick Reaping and Mowing Machine

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man and a young boy using a reaping and rowing machine. The boy is sitting on the horse pulling the machine. A number of men an...
Photograph

Men and Boys with Horse-Drawn Mowers

Date: 1900
Description: View of a man standing in a field on the left near a man using a horse-drawn mower. On the right a young boy is using another horse-drawn mower. A small do...
Photograph

Belgian Refugees

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian refugees hanging up their clothes after the daily washing.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Commencement of Spring Work

Date: 01 1884
Description: Illustration of a man attaching a plow to a horse team. A boy is adjusting the bridle for one of the horses, and a dog sitting in the foreground is looking...

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