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Besser Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the Besser tractor featuring a photograph of a man using the tractor and a disk harrow in a farm field. The text reads: "The Besser. A Ge...
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Michigan Lumbering Scene

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Description: View over water of Michigan lumbering scene, where men roll logs into the river. The group of men are posed holding peaveys and cant hooks or peaveys, tool...
Photograph

Wisconsin Central Railroad

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Description: Wisconsin Central railroad locomotive no. 120 at the railroad station. Engineer Clelland McVick is standing in the gangway, and a woman who is presumably h...
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Ontonagon River

Date: 1900
Description: View from rocky shoreline across river towards a man standing on rocks and holding a stick in front of a rock face on the opposite shoreline. There are lar...
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Gale Manufacturing Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1878
Description: Front of advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man using a Gale Chilled Plow (Albion, Michigan) with a donkey in a field. Another man is wal...
Photograph

Isaac Stephenson and George Peck's Fishing Trip

Date: 1912
Description: A group of men sit in chairs close together around the entrance of an open tent. In the background are trees and more tents. The men are wearing shirts, bo...
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George Peck in the Woods

Date: 1912
Description: Former governor George W. Peck stands in the woods with his arms outstretched. He is wearing a brimmed hat, shirt, neck scarf, suspenders, and pants.
Postcard

Residence of James J. Strang

Date: 1850
Description: Printed postcard of an illustration of the James Strang residence on Beaver Island, Michigan. Two men are standing in front of a stockade fence in front of...
Photograph

Farmall M Tractor Moving a Railroad Car Away from a Fire

Date: 1947
Description: Two men on a Farmall M tractor are moving a railroad car loaded with alfalfa meal away from a fire at Piehl Alfalfa Mill.
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K-5 Truck Mounted with Elgin Corps as Refuse-Getter

Date: 1941
Description: View across lawn towards two men standing near a K-5 truck used by the Department of Public Works, St. Joseph. The doors of the cab are removed. One man is...
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IH Model Beet Harvester

Date: 1947
Description: Model beet harvester in a 26-acre field of beets on the 500-acre farm of Ed Zeneberg. Three men are working on the machine to harvest the beets, with one o...
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Wayne Harrington Driving Farmall M to Harvest Beets

Date: 1947
Description: View from front of Wayne Harrington driving a Farmall M to pull an HM-1 1947 model International Harvester sugar beet harvester in a field. Two men are sta...
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Man Operating a Farmall A Tractor

Date: 1941
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a man driving a Farmall A tractor and rotary hoe working in a field of strawberry plants at the Stohlen nursery farm...
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Bliss Alfalfa Club

Date: 07 15 1913
Description: Group portrait of the Bliss Alfafa Club of Emmet County, showing the President Mr. Grant. The group of men, women and children is standing on an unpaved ro...
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Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 08 1942
Description: Illustration art of a machine operator in work clothes and a billed cap with safety goggles standing next to a Type S Dynetric Balancer at the Howell Elect...
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Man Operating Hough 90 Pay Loader

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Description: Man operating a Hough 90 Pay Loader to move sand or other material into conveying machinery. A sign on the driver's side door of a truck in the background ...
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Man and Pigeon

Date: 1909
Description: An unidentified man is kneeling down and holding his hand out to a bird (probably a pigeon or a dove) in the town of Watersmeet.
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The Gang

Date: 1909
Description: The Gang at their campsite. From left to right are: Charles (Carl) Greene, Bill Marr, Dr. (Doc) Copeland, an unidentified man, and William MacLaren (Billy ...
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Making Pie

Date: 1909
Description: The camp cook, Joe Paris, rolling out pie crust on a wooden box at a camp.
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Loading Supplies

Date: 1909
Description: The Gang loading their travel supplies at a campsite. From left to right are: Doc Copeland, Howard T. Greene, Bill Marr, Fred Carr, and Howard Greene.

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