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Book or Pamphlet

Empire Mower, Reaper & Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1883
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a horse-dr...
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Reapers and Mowers Catalog Cover

Date: 1879
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Champion line of reapers and mowers manufactured by Warder, Mitchell, and Company. The cover features a color illu...
Photograph

Men Using International Harvester Hay Press

Date: 09 09 1913
Description: Two men using an International Harvester hay press at Springfield Works in Ohio. On the left is a large haystack. There are farm buildings in the backgroun...
Photograph

Two Men Sifting Compost for a Garden

Date: 06 1923
Description: Two men sifting compost soil through a screen.
Photograph

Working with a Compost Pile

Date: 06 1923
Description: A man cutting down a compost pile with a shovel.
Photograph

Spraying Potatoes with Pesticide

Date: 06 1923
Description: Men using the "big sprayer" to apply pesticide to garden potatoes at R.R. Robertson's farm.
Photograph

Milk Cooler in Shed

Date: 11 03 1936
Description: A man places a milk can into a cooler housed in a shed. More milk cans and pails are stored on a wooden shelf outside the shed.
Photograph

Cooling Milk with Ice

Date: 07 13 1936
Description: Two men stand on the side of a building. On man is setting a milk canister into a bulkhead of a cellar, while the other stands to the side holding ice ton...
Photograph

Robert Frase on Farmall A Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: Robert Frase, a tenant on the A.L. Roads farm, sits on a Farmall A tractor equipped with Goodyear synthetic tires and an A-192 one-furrow Farmall plow.
Photograph

International Truck with Trailer

Date: 1939
Description: Two men speak to one another as a woman wearing an apron enters a trailer used by the Ohio Edison Company. The trailer is attached to an International D-2 ...
Photograph

Man Feeding Chickens

Date: 1914
Description: A man stands outside a chicken coop at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station while feeding a flock of chickens from a wooden pail.
Photograph

Selling Peaches

Date: 1923
Description: A customer offers payment for fruit to a woman sitting at a small desk inside an orchard shed. Multiple rows of bushel baskets filled with peaches are line...
Photograph

Selling Peaches at the Shed

Date: 09 1923
Description: Men looking through baskets of peaches in an open shed, where fruit was sold by the bushel. Others stand nearby. Original caption reads: "Selling peaches a...
Book or Pamphlet

Mansfield Machine Works Catalog Cover

Date: 1870
Description: Front cover of a mower and reaper catalog. Features a color illustration of a man using a mower in field, with the caption: "Mower Finger Bar Lifter Over a...
Book or Pamphlet

Peerless Reaper Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1880
Description: Catalog cover with gold and black ink illustrations. In the center a woman standing on a globe of the earth carries a sheaf of wheat on her shoulder and a ...
Photograph

Baling Cornstalks

Date: 01 04 1912
Description: View towards men using a hay press to bale cornstalks. There is a fence and farm buildings in the background.
Photograph

Powered Hay Press and Baling Operation

Date: 08 15 1917
Description: Group of men standing in a field near a powered hay press during a baling operation. On the left is a stack of hay bales. There are farm buildings in the b...
Photograph

Group of People at John Wilhelm Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Group of people posing around three men who are on horse-drawn McCormick binders. A young girl is standing and holding a bicycle. In the background are far...
Photograph

Group of Men Posing at John Wilhelm Farm

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a group of men standing near other men using horse-drawn McCormick binders. In the background are farm buildings.
Photograph

Group of People at John Begg Farm

Date: 1900
Description: View over fence across field towards group of people standing near a man on a horse-drawn McCormick binder. Farm buildings are in the far background.

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