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Toledo Scale

Date: 06 13 1928
Description: Man weighing a milk can on a new Toledo scale at the H.M. Zander Creamery.
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The Threshing Crew

Date: 
Description: Wisconsin threshing crew, with steam operated tractor, in Buffalo county.
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Farmall MV on Farm

Date: 1943
Description: The caption for this photograph states that this Farmall MV tractor is "shown at work on the 2800-acre Triangle Farm near McCall, Louisiana, some 1800 acre...
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Men Harvesting Grain with Self-Rake Reaper

Date: 1905
Description: A man operates a horse-drawn self-rake reaper in a field while another follows behind with a rake. A girl approaches from the side with a jug in her hand.
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Chas. A. Woodson

Date: 1938
Description: Charles A. Woodson, dressed in overalls, is sitting on the corner of a 6 can electric milk cooler inside a wooden building. Two metal pails are on the righ...
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Edgar C. Lyman with Milk Pails

Date: 1941
Description: Edgar C. Lyman stands on a platform and uses a stainless steel pail to pour milk into a supply tank.
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Grove Workers with DS-30

Date: 1937
Description: Three men use an International DS-30 truck and sprayers to work in a grove.
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Men with Cream Separators

Date: 1925
Description: Two men are posing outdoors wearing three-piece suits. They are standing on either side of a McCormick cream separator. An additional cream separator is ly...
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Men with Cream Separator

Date: 1925
Description: A man is emptying a pail into a Number 4 electric cream separator in a shed on the farm of John Doanan. Mr. Doanan is standing with a pail in the foregroun...
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Man using Cream Separator

Date: 1925
Description: A man is turning the crank of a McCormick Primrose cream separator.
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Unloading Sugar Cane

Date: 
Description: A view of a crane unloading sugar cane onto boxcars on a track at the Sugar House. Several men and two horses pulling a wagon are on the right.
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Loading Sugar Cane

Date: 
Description: A view of men and women loading sugar cane onto the carrier conveying it into the sugar house. Caption reads: "Loading Sugar Cane Onto Carrier Conveying It...
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Planting Potatoes

Date: 1919
Description: A man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and overalls is sitting behind a team of two horses while planting potatoes at the International Harvester Company experim...
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Orchard Sprayer

Date: 07 15 1929
Description: A man drives a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor through an orchard as another man stands on an orchard sprayer while applying what is probably pesticide ...
Photograph

Cranberry Parade Float

Date: 1950
Description: Parade float sponsored by Eatmor and Ocean Spray Cranberries. A beauty contestant sits with a large cranberry pie on the float which is pulled by a John De...
Photograph

Mixing Pesticide for Orchard

Date: 1920
Description: Three men in an orchard mixing up chemicals to spray the trees. One of the men is on the back of a horse-drawn wagon with a barrel. The other two men are s...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Milkers Brochure

Date: 1941
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering Milkers, featuring a photograph of a man carrying a milker and looking off into the distance. Origin...
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Factory Workers at McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1900
Description: Male workers standing at stations positioned along a wall of windows inside the McCormick Reaper Works. A belt-driven power system is suspended from the ce...
Print

Kreme-O-Maltz, Malt Syrup Label

Date: 1929
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Kreme-O-Maltz, Light Hop Flavor, Malt Syrup." Distributed by the Oshkosh Maltz Produ...
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People Posing Around Farm Machinery

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Description: People posing in field, with a barn in the background among trees. In the center a man, three women and a boy are standing in front of a wire fence. Behind...

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