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Refueling a Tri-Motor

Date: 1936
Description: Refueling a Ford Tri-Motor airplane. Because gasoline truck hoses did not have pumps, airplanes were refueled by filling 5-gallon cans and then lifting the...
Book or Pamphlet

Randolph Header Catalog

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Randolph header manufactured by the Craver and Steele Manufacturing Company. Features a color illustration of farme...
Photograph

Couple in Wagon

Date: 1902
Description: A man and woman sitting in a wagon led by a horse. A field and a house are in the background.
Photograph

Hubert Humphrey Campaigning

Date: 1960
Description: Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota campaigning for the presidential nomination in southwestern Wisconsin. Humphrey stands at the historical marker in Co...
Photograph

T-20 TracTracTor

Date: 12 12 1937
Description: A man pulls logs with an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) along a dirt road in a snow-covered field.
Photograph

Man and Boys on Water Wagon

Date: 08 1911
Description: Man with two boys, possibly father and sons, seated on a water wagon pulled by a team of horses along a rural dirt road.
Photograph

Men Standing Atop Corn Harvest

Date: 02 14 1910
Description: Two men standing atop large piles of corn. A barn or farm building can be seen just beyond the large pile. In the background a man is driving a team of two...
Photograph

Cutaway View of Axial-Flow Combine

Date: 1977
Description: Side cutaway view of the International Harvester axial-flow combine.
Photograph

International Harvester Axial-Flow Combine

Date: 1977
Description: A man uses an International Harvester axial-flow combine to work in a field.
Photograph

International Harvester Axial-Flow Combine

Date: 1977
Description: A man uses an International Harvester axial-flow combine in a cornfield.
Book or Pamphlet

Turner Simplicity Tractor Guarantees

Date: 1920
Description: Interior pages of a pamphlet advertising the Turner Simplicity tractor in 12-20 and 14-25 horsepower sizes. The text includes headlines reading: "Simplicit...
Print

Turner Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Three folds of a pamphlet advertising the Turner-Simplicity tractor featuring two illustrations of a man at work on the tractor along with text describing ...
Print

Peoria Tractor Company Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of an advertisement for the Peoria Tractor Company featuring the silhouettes of a barn and a farmer on a tractor against a setting sun and an i...
Book or Pamphlet

Peoria Kerosene Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Back cover of a pamphlet advertising the Peoria Standard kerosene tractor featuring an illustration of a tractor as seen from the side. The text reads, "Bu...
Print

Farmer Using Fageol Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Advertising illustration for Fegeol tractors showing a farmer using a tractor in a field.
Print

Handy Governor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the Handy Governor featuring a photograph of the device at center, surrounded by a listing of its attributes. The heading at top reads: "...
Print

Plano Manufacturing Company Calendar

Date: 1901
Description: Calendar for Light Running Plano binders, mowers-headers, reapers-hayrakes, & sickle grinders. The calendar has an illustration of a man using Jone's Lever...
Photograph

Motor Cultivator

Date: 
Description: Man using motor cultivator in a field. Two men are standing in a horse-drawn wagon nearby. In the distance across the field are two buildings.

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