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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Glass negative series, circa 1900-1939
Filter: Subject of land use, rural
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two workers loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a tram car on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The sisal or hennequen was used by the McCormick Company and... |
| Date: | 08 15 1929 |
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| Description: | A crew of telephone line repairmen working on a rural line with their International truck parked below them. An IH truck, with storage compartments sitting... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Several farmers and farm laborers, including a handful of children, at work harvesting grain with a McCormick grain binder in a field. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing on a trolley car, which is pulling a flat car loaded with a McCormick grain binder and mower as part of an event culminating the "Cr... |
| Date: | 07 14 1926 |
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| Description: | Farmer loading hay from a wagon into a large barn using a winch. There are other farm buildings, a water tower, and a farmhouse in the background. |
| Date: | 06 29 1928 |
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| Description: | Group of Mexican workers posing in front of a large stack of hay. Most of the people are wearing hats, many of them sombreros, and worn clothing. Several p... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Weathered building, possibly at Walnut Grove, the family farm of Cyrus McCormick. Walnut Grove was near Steele's Tavern, Virginia. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A farmer operating a horse-drawn self-rake reaper while children are following close by. |
| Date: | 01 15 1908 |
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| Description: | Three men in a field use a horse-powered hay press. Two carriages are on the the left. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View over field of two-story frame farmhouse with wooden barn to the rear and a smaller shed off to the side. A barbed wire(?) fence and a utility pole are... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View of fork in road, with split-rail fence in the center. There are buildings in the far background on the left. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A farmer is operating a horse-drawn mower as it makes its way down a dirt road between split-rail fences towards a barn. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A farmer is operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. A group of people, including two adults and four children, are looking on. The femal... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a McCormick horse-drawn grain binder operated by a farmer in a field. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A farmer operates a horse-drawn grain binder in a field while another man in work clothes looks on. Two men in dress clothes sit in a buggy in the same fie... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A man wearing dress clothes and holding a raised switch is driving an ox-drawn mower down a path in a field. The man is also wearing a bowler or derby hat ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A man sporting a beard and wide-brimmed straw (?) hat is operating a mower pulled by two horses in a field. The field is on hilly terrain. A dirt road and ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A farmer wearing a bowler or derby hat is voperating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. The farmer is holding a switch. A cornfield and sever... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A farmer operating a horse-drawn binder in a field, while cattle are grazing nearby. A farmhouse, several farm buildings and a windmill are in the distance... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A farmer is operating a grain binder pulled by two horses in a field. His switch is drawn. Farm buildings are in the distance. |
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