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Horse-Drawn Harvester-Thresher

Date: 09 18 1923
Description: Harvester-Thresher (combine) on a hill in a field drawn by a team of eleven horses.
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Workers Loading Sisal Leaves onto Tram Car

Date: 1900
Description: Two workers loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a tram car on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The sisal or hennequen was used by the McCormick Company and...
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Harvesting Grain with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Several farmers and farm laborers, including a handful of children, at work harvesting grain with a McCormick grain binder in a field.
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Farm Hands at Work Reaping Grain with Scythes

Date: 1899
Description: Farm scene of foreman watching five farm hands reaping grain with cradles as children, women and field hands help gather it into bundles.
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Farmer Harvesting Grain with Horse-Drawn Reaper

Date: 1899
Description: Rear view of farmer harvesting grain near woodline with a self-rake reaper drawn by two horses.
Postcard

First Wisconsin Aviator-A.P. Warner

Date: 11 04 1909
Description: Color postcard depicting Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit flying his Curtiss Pusher for the first time, November 4, 1909. Warner was the first person in Wisco...
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Allis Chalmers Farm Machinery

Date: 07 06 1940
Description: Allis Chalmers tractor pulling a chopper and a wagon, with one man driving the tractor, two men on the wagon, and one man talking to the driver.
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Farm Laborers with Reaper

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Description: A crew of farm laborers take a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman offers food and drinks. They are posed in front of a reaper with the family ...
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Harvesting Grain by Hand in Mexico

Date: 06 29 1928
Description: Several people harvest grain by hand, while two men on horses look on. All the men wear sombreros; the men on horses wear suits, while the harvesters wear...
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Child with Jug in Field

Date: 1917
Description: A small boy in a cap drinks from a heavy water jug near shocks of grain in a field.
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Shocks of Grain in a Field

Date: 08 25 1928
Description: A field with shocks of grain.
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Shocks of Grain

Date: 1930
Description: Shocks of grain in a field bundled together with grain ties.
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Farm and Field near Road

Date: 08 14 1936
Description: Farm and field near a rural tree-lined road. Cars and trucks can be seen in the distance.
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Shocks of Wheat in Field

Date: 1939
Description: Shocks of wheat lined up in a large field. There is a mountain range in the background.
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Field and Mountains

Date: 1946
Description: Stacks of cut wheat or hay in a field. A mountain range is in the background.
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Man Shucks Corn in Field

Date: 1921
Description: A man is sitting and shucking a pile of corn in the middle of a harvested cornfield. In the background is a wagon full of corn.
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Horse-Powered Hay Press

Date: 01 15 1908
Description: Three men in a field use a horse-powered hay press. Two carriages are on the the left.
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Harvesting Grain

Date: 07 20 1921
Description: Horse-drawn cart stacked with grain shocks out in a field. One man is standing on top of the already stacked grain, while another man is passing shocks up.
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Horse-Drawn Hay Rake

Date: 07 20 1921
Description: Man operating a horse-drawn hay rake. Two boys and a man in the background are piling the cut hay.
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New Mechanical Cotton Picker

Date: 1942
Description: Two cotton pickers, the first driven by Fowler McCormick, president of the International Harvester Company, drive through a field on the Hopson Planting Co...

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