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Lunch Break

Date: 1915
Description: Field workers take a lunch break outdoors. The man holding the food is Frank Haack and the woman taking a bite is his sister-in-law, Anna Bollenbeck.
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Family and Farm

Date: 1873
Description: Family and farm implements in a field with farm buildings and haystacks in the background.
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Madison Community Chest Gardening

Date: 06 21 1949
Description: Madison Community Chest sponsored Farley Tract community garden. Erwin O. Huebnow, the 1948 Farley tract head, is shown with Professor Paul Bender, who is ...
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Madison Community Chest Gardening

Date: 06 21 1949
Description: Madison Community Chest sponsored Farley tract community garden. Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Blankenburg are listening to the radio while working in their plot.
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Karst Family

Date: 1895
Description: Women bringing lunch to the men working in the field. The men are harvesting grain using a horse-drawn grain binder.
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Man Tilling Soil with Tractor

Date: 
Description: A man tilling soil on a farm with a tractor. Houses and trees are visible in the background.
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Men and Boy with Kemp Manure Spreader

Date: 1910
Description: Panoramic view of man on horse-drawn Kemp No. 2 20th Century manure spreader. Sitting on the ground on the left is a man and young boy (possibly father and...
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Two Men Loading Manure Spreader

Date: 1911
Description: Panoramic view of two men loading a horse-drawn manure spreader (possibly a Kemp) in a field.
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Man Operating Manure Spreader on Farmland

Date: 1911
Description: Panoramic view of man operating a horse-drawn manure spreader on farmland close to farmhouse and farm buildings.
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Farmer with Dog Loading Kemp Manure Spreader

Date: 1910
Description: Panoramic view of farmer with dog loading manure onto horse-drawn Kemp No. 1 20th Century manure spreader at the base of a hill on farmland.
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Man on Manure Spreader between Farm Buildings

Date: 1910
Description: Panoramic view of farmer driving a horse-drawn manure spreader (possibly a Kemp) near a farmhouse and a barn. A man is standing on the left. On the right i...
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Engine Powered Hay Press

Date: 1919
Description: A man baling hay with a hay press powered by an International Type M engine. Bales of hay are loaded on flatbed behind men observing on the left.
Painting

Spring Planting

Date: 
Description: A farmer is planting corn using the planter wire method.
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Man with Hay Tedder

Date: 07 05 1935
Description: Farmer in a field with a horse-drawn McCormick-Deering hay tedder.
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Workers Raking Hay

Date: 1937
Description: Man with a horse-drawn hay rake in a field. Other field workers gather hay by hand in the background. Original caption reads, "raking heavy timothy hay int...
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Man on Reynolds Tedder

Date: 1919
Description: Man on a Reynolds hay tedder pulled by team of work horses. Another man stands supervising. In the far background beyond a fence are two separate farmstead...
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Man Riding on Hay Rake

Date: 1936
Description: Man seated on hay rake pulled by two work horses. Original caption reads, "raking alsike clover with new McCormick-Deering Sulky rake owned and operated by...
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Batzler Farm

Date: 08 1983
Description: "Threshing on the Batzler farm."
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Working with a Binder

Date: 1899
Description: View of August, Alex, and Mrs. Alex (Florentina) Krueger working with the binder in a field.
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Kuckkahn Brothers Threshing Rig

Date: 08 15 1899
Description: Three Kuckkahn Brothers standing and siting on their Altman-Taylor Engine, Separator, and Threshing Rig.

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