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Pig Freight Car on the Soo Line

Date: 1917
Description: Group of people standing in front of a Soo Line freight car that was used by the railroad to promote hog transportation. This photograph was donated to the...
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Milk Strike at Stanley

Date: 1932
Description: Crowd gathered for the milk strike at Stanley.
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Indians Thresh Wheat

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Description: Indians thresh the first wheat at the Sac and Fox Agency in Iowa.
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Loading Milk Cans

Date: 1937
Description: A man unloads milk cans from a Ford Model T pickup truck at a creamery receiving station.
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Sweep Horsepower Threshing

Date: 1890
Description: Sweep horsepower threshing. Men and products lined up near the machinery with a large haystack on the left.
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Virginia Farmers Union Coop Members

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Description: Virginia Farmers Union coop members leaning on a car. Sign above reads, "Farmers Union... Inc. Office-Warehouse & Dairy Division".
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Farming Family in Wagon

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Description: An unidentified farming family sitting in a wagon.
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Pet Milk Evaporated Milk Supply

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Description: Greene County Farmers Union Milk Producers Coop, using a fork lift to move a supply of Pet Milk Company evaporated milk.
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Farmers with Large Haystack

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Description: Several farmers posing with a very large haystack. A man identified as "Uncle Dave" is standing on top of the hay.
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Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using what appears to be a mower drawn by two horses to work in a field. Farm buildings and other workers are in the background, as well as child...
Manuscript

First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Roster

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Description: Commemorative Civil War roster of First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, Wisconsin Hussars Squadron "G." Depicts "Our Country as it was in 1860" with ...
Print

The La Crosse Tractor Advertisement

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Description: The La Crosse Tractor Advertisement with schematic. A photograph at the top shows men with tractors and wagons advertising the "Kansas City Tractor Show." ...
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Wallin Brothers Threshing Rig

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Description: Crew of men harvesting grain using horses, a tractor and a thresher. Three men standing in the field at left are wearing suits and hats.
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Threshing Day

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Description: Threshing day in the fields at the Quinney family farm. View includes, two workers, a tractor powering the thresher, a horse-drawn cart full of straw, a t...
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Steam Tractor

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Description: A view of two men on a steam tractor with a gang plow in a field. An automobile is behind the plow.
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Frank Otto Threshing Crew

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Description: A group of farmer workers stand with pitch forks in front of the first gas engine for threshing on the August Krenke farm. A horse-drawn vehicle is also vi...
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Group of Men and Boys Threshing

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men and boys threshing. They are using a tractor for a belt-driven threshing machine, and on the left two horses pull a wagon with large barrels.
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Jean Nash with Ciron Cranberry Truck

Date: 1954
Description: Jean Nash, cranberry grower, posed next to a truck for the Biron Cranberry Company.
Print

J.I. Case Plow Works Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the J.I. Case Plow Works of Racine, Wisconsin, with an elevated view of the company plant and a smaller scene set on a scroll of a man driving ...
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Loading Corn into Silo

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Description: The barn in the foreground, left, is the school barn for the Hillside Home School (which was run by Frank Lloyd Wright's aunts & Enos Lloyd Jones sisters, ...

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