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Farmer Poses with Watermelon aboard Cotton Picker

Date: 1944
Description: Farm worker, Frank White, stops harvesting to pose with watermelon found among the cotton crop. The field, part of the O'Neill Ranch located in Helm, Calif...
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McCormick-Deering H-10-H Cotton Picker

Date: 1944
Description: Nineteen-year-old Dorothy Hutchinson, a student at Fresno State College, operates a McCormick-Deering H-10-H cotton harvester in a field of cotton on the H...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering No. 31-RW West Coast Special Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1936
Description: Farmer Frank Rakow harvesting corn with a McCormick-Deering no. 31-RW West Coast Special harvester-thresher (combine). Mr. Rakow and the No. 31-RW are work...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Fertile Lands with Potato

Date: 1910
Description: A giant, oddly-shaped potato rests on a flatbed railroad car. A horse-drawn carriage with a driver is visible behind the train. White bags filled with pota...
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Deering Corn Binder

Date: 1915
Description: Demonstration for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition showing how the labor swing bundle elevator of the Deering corn binder operates.
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Harvest Scene

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Description: View of a large team of horses pulling harvesting equipment. Several men are on the harvester. Caption reads: "A Harvest Scene At Beautiful Rio Vista, Cali...
Photograph

International Equipment for Hoover Ranches

Date: 07 15 1935
Description: Two men operate Farmall F-30 tractors with harrow and cultivating attachments at "Hoover Ranches." The ranch was owned by ex-President Herbert Hoover. Orig...
Book or Pamphlet

Knott's Berry Place Tea Room Menu

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Description: Front cover and menu pages from Knott's Berry Place, with multi-colored boysenberries suspended over rows of plants in the fields, and parked cars lined up...
Photograph

Self Propelled 12 ft Combine in Flax

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Description: McCormick-Deering 17w self propelled combine. Combine pictured here harvesting flax in California.
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McCormick-Deering Self Propelled 17w 12 ft Harvesting Flax

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Description: McCormick-Deering self propelled 17w combine, shown here harvesting flax.
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Farmall H Pulling a Combine

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Description: Original hand written caption reads: "No.92 (9 ft) combine in barley near Calexico, Ca."
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Farmall H with McCormick-Deering Pull Type Combine

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Description: Original hand written caption reads: "No.92 (9 ft) combine in barley near Calexico, Ca."
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Men Using No. 62 Combine in Flax

Date: 1941
Description: Elevated three-quarter rear view from left of two men with a Farmall tractor pulling a No. 62 combine to harvest flax in the Imperial Valley.

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