Date: | 1897 |
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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... |
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Description: | View down side of wooden picket fence in a residential section of town. There is a wooden bench against the fence, and stalks of corn can be seen just over... |
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Description: | Probably a first plowing of land after the trees and stumps have been removed by grubbing. Many roots still remain, and the "breaking plow" turns a wide fu... |
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Description: | A man uses a hand cultivator in a field of what could possibly be onions. |
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Description: | Three men scythe a field, possibly of wheat. Behind the men there are three children and a woman standing in a row. |
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Description: | Two teams of horses pull two self-binders through a field. The self-binder came into use after the reaper, both of which were superceded by the combine. |
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Description: | Numerous farmers participate in the threshing of grain. Left is the straw stack, center is the threshing machine and wagon to haul it to the granary, and r... |
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Description: | Two of four conical grain stacks which were arranged in "settings" of four to permit all four to be threshed from a single "setting" or position of the thr... |
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Description: | A blower is attached to a steam tractor by a belt and blows grain into a barn. A man stands by the tractor while others stand on the blower near the barn. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | A large group of Ho-Chunks and white people harvesting cranberries. The wooden boxes lying in the field were filled with the fruit and then shipped by rail... |
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Description: | View across harvested field, of what was probably corn, of frame house and barn. |
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Description: | A group of men are operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. Three men are posing in the foreground near the tractor, and anot... |
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Description: | View from grassy field of a field of crops on a low slope. The crops are supported by wire or rope attached to posts at the end of each row. There are work... |
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Description: | View down row of what may be a field of berry bushes. A wood post in the foreground on the right has wire or rope supporting the row of plants. Trees and h... |
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Description: | Portrait of an elderly woman, and a young girl on her left, each sitting in a chair in front of a wire fence. Behind the fence is a cornfield. |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of plants supported with stakes in a field. There is a water tower in the background on top of a hill on the right. People are worki... |
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Description: | Outdoor group portrait of four men and one woman posing standing in a tobacco field next to a tobacco wagon pulled by a two horses. |
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Description: | View across field towards three men operating a binder and threshing machinery pulled by a team of four horses. |
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