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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1950
Description: A group of cranberry harvesters at work.
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Steamboat "Clyde"

Date: 1870
Description: The sidewheel steam rafter "Clyde," which was the first iron hull steamboat. Sign on side of boat reads: "Dubuque, Reads Landing & Eau Claire." Agricultura...
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Krueger Family in Field

Date: 08 24 1907
Description: August, Tina, Sarah, Jennie, Edgar and Alex Krueger posing outdoors in a field. Alex took this photograph remotely with a string tied to the shutter of the...
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Christian Turck House

Date: 1900
Description: Christian Turck House built in 1835 by Turck who was a German immigrant.
Poster

Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
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Steam Tractor with Sod-breaking Plows

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Description: Two men are posing standing on a steam tractor on the right, probably a Linnell, attached to sod-breaking plows steered by two men on the left. Behind them...
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Tractor and Plow Being Towed

Date: 03 1935
Description: A tractor and plow on a trailer is being towed by a truck.
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Manufacturing Implements at Rock Falls Works

Date: 1930
Description: Factory workers assembling hay rakes at International Harvester's Rock Falls Works. The factory was owned by the Keystone Manufacturing Company until it wa...
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Workers on a Farmall Cub Modified for De-Tasseling

Date: 1949
Description: Six women and a man on a McCormick-Deering Farmall Cub tractor modified for de-tasseling work. The unit was built with a special mounting frame by Knudsen ...
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German Farmers Baling Hay in Alpine Country

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Description: German farmers baling hay in southern Germany's Alpine country. The men are using an International D-214 tractor with mower and wagon. Original caption rea...
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Farm Family with Implements

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Description: A stonecutter, a cooper or smith (identified by the tools of their trade) and a girl with a pail are standing on the left in contrast to a group of ladies ...
Print

Fuller & Johnson Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Date: 1890
Description: Foldout cards in a 10-page brochure for Fuller & Johnson Mfg. Co., Ltd., manufacturers of farm implements, based in Madison, WI. The top illustration is fo...
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Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1901
Description: Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover's color illustration features a woman with a rake watching a ...
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Farmer in Grove with O-4 Orchard Tractor

Date: 1941
Description: Farmer operating a McCormick-Deering O-4 orchard tractor and disc harrow.
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Three Men on Tractors Working in a Field

Date: 04 27 1945
Description: View of Wisconsin Conference of Seventh Day Adventists farm field, with two farmers watching three other farmers on Farmall tractors. They are plowing and ...
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Tractor Breaking Ground for Garden

Date: 04 28 1933
Description: Gene Walker on Caterpillar tractor breaking ground for community garden project, located on S. Park Street near Cedar Street. Watching are: Alphons Kruel, ...
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Combine Thresher and Tractor

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: A group portrait of men, women and children standing in a field, with a Nichols & Shepard combine thresher and Hart Parr tractor behind them. In the backgr...
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Potato Field

Date: 08 02 1926
Description: Four men in a potato field at Farm Colony, Wisconsin State Hospital for Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), Highway 113.
Book or Pamphlet

IHC Pull Power Hay Press Catalog

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester. Shows pull power hay presses featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers ...
Photograph

Farmers Plow Field with Mogul 12-25 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Right side view of men plowing a field with a Mogul 12-25 tractor and a breaking plow.

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