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Poster

P&O Plows Advertising Poster

Date: 1927
Description: South African advertising poster for P&O plows, "made especially for South African conditions" and "sold by Champions Limited, Durban, Bloemfontein, East L...
Photograph

Harold McCormick Family Portrait at Walnut Grove, Virginia

Date: 1922
Description: Harold F. McCormick family, farm laborers, and various animals on the Walnut Grove estate at Raphine, Virginia. Harold McCormick was the son of Cyrus Hall ...
Photograph

Farm Girl Feeding Calf

Date: 1921
Description: Young girl feeding a calf from a bucket while standing in a field.
Photograph

Cows Drink from Tank in Pasture

Date: 08 1929
Description: Cows drinking water from a tank in a rural pasture.
Photograph

IH Demonstration Farm at Larimore

Date: 08 03 1923
Description: View of an International Harvester Company demonstration farm from across a dirt road. A farmhouse is to the right, and a barn and smaller buildings are ne...
Photograph

Man Loading Fertilizer onto Horse-Drawn Manure Spreader

Date: 04 18 1927
Description: A man wearing a hat loads a large bin of fertilizer, with the aid of an overhead pulley system attached to a barn, onto a manure spreader that is being pul...
Photograph

McFarland Depot

Date: 1923
Description: View down railroad tracks of the McFarland train depot. Two men are on the platform, and a cow grazes in the grass on the left.
Photograph

Performing Horses

Date: 1924
Description: Three performing horses stand on platforms in a ring as their trainer gestures proudly in the foreground. Behind the ring are banners decorated with horses...
Photograph

Bird's-Eye View

Date: 1920
Description: View from low hill of a stream flowing through fields. There are cows in the pasture on the right. In the distance is a bridge, road, and buildings.
Print

Hart-Parr Advertisement

Date: 1925
Description: Front cover of a Hart-Parr advertising booklet featuring a color illustration of a farmer using the Hart-Parr 30 tractor to work in a field on a farmstead,...
Photograph

View from Bluff Near Crystal Lake

Date: 1925
Description: View from bluff of Crystal Lake and surrounding rolling hills. There is a dairy farm in the foreground at the bottom of the bluff. Cows are grazing in fiel...
Photograph

Stephen Babcock Milking a Cow

Date: 05 1928
Description: Stephen Moulton Babcock seated on a small stool and milking a cow as another man holds a harness around the cow's head. They are in a University of Wiscons...
Map or Atlas

Railroad Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1928
Description: This map shows rates on cattle, hogs and sheep, and mileage from Wisconsin points to Chicago, Illinois. The top margin reads: "Before the Interstate Commer...
Photograph

Men Loading Cows into International Truck

Date: 1929
Description: A man stands in the bed of a truck while loading cows. One cow is already in the truck bed, and two other cows are moving up the ramp. Two young children w...
Photograph

Two Men Posing with Cow

Date: 1922
Description: Two men are posing with a cow in a field under trees. One of the men is sitting as if milking the cow with one hand, while he is drinking from a bottle wit...
Photograph

Two Children Feeding Calves

Date: 03 1924
Description: Two children feeding calves near the closed barn doors at Ament's Farm in Yorkville, Illinois.
Photograph

Guernsey Cow

Date: 1921
Description: Guernsey cow, wearing a halter and a lead, standing and looking out from behind the gate of an open doorway of a barn at Four Pine Farm, Hinsdale, Illinois...
Photograph

Man Posing with Cows

Date: 05 03 1925
Description: View of a man posing with cows in a field.
Photograph

Cows Standing Around Automobile

Date: 05 03 1925
Description: View of a group of cows standing around an automobile in a field.
Photograph

Cows in Pasture of Well Kept Farm

Date: 06 16 1925
Description: View of cows in a pasture, with farm buildings in the background.

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