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Horse Pulling Contest
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Horse pulling contest at an unidentified Wisconsin county fair. At the time, farmers were making the transition from horse-drawn equipment to tractors and other motorized equipment and soon farmers would no longer own the livestock for such contests between horses and horsepower.
1936
Hone, Harold N.
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W012P0A
WHi 40909
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Horse Contest
1936
Elevated view over crowd of a horse pulling contest at a county fair. A man is sitting on the back of a truck bed driving two horses on what appears to be a race track.
Harness Racing
circa 1936-1940
Elevated view of four men and their horses harness racing down a road, with crowds of spectators on the sides, during a county fair in southwestern Wisconsin.
McCormick-Deering Power Farm Equipment Demonstration
1939
Three-quarter view from front left of a man driving a two-horse team pulling a Buckeye wagon in a cornfield. Behind the wagon is a group of men watching a man on the right standing near a row of co...