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Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op...
Photograph

Dr. Blake's Home

Date: 1877
Description: View of Dr. Blake's (probably Samuel M.) house in Lodi or Prairie du Sac with a white picket fence in front of it. A man is standing in the grass in front ...
Photograph

Miniature Farm Display at Muscatine Imp. Co.

Date: 07 02 1929
Description: A tabletop display of a miniature farm, including a house, barn, garage, windmill, fences, plants, tractor, truck, animals, and two water pumps. A sign on ...
Photograph

Man Operating Osborne Mower

Date: 1915
Description: Rear view of a man operating an Osborne horse-drawn mower near a tree. The man is raising the sickle-bar as he is passing the tree.
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from rear of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder on the Gary Owen farm. A farmhouse and windmill are in the far background.
Photograph

Houses on a Rural Road

Date: 05 30 1916
Description: View down center of rural dirt road with houses along both sides in Black Hawk County. A man and horse are in a field on the left, near a sign that says: "...
Photograph

Group of People with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1895
Description: A man with his back turned is posing on a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. On his left are four females, including a woman, one younger woman...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of the Empire Drill Company catalog. Features an image of a man driving a team of two horses (toward the viewer) while pulling an empire drill....
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Keystone Farms

Date: 
Description: View of barn, house, and outbuildings at Keystone Farms, owned by Owen W. Rolands.
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a man using a horse-drawn binder. There is a farmhouse, farm buildings and a windmill in the background on the left.
Photograph

Men with Horse-Drawn Binder in Farmyard

Date: 1900
Description: Man and boy standing near a man riding on a McCormick horse-drawn binder in a farmyard, with a farmhouse in the background obscured by trees.
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View across field of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field. In the far background are farm buildings and a farmhouse.
Photograph

Group of Men Posing near Man on Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across harvested field towards men posing near a man on a horse-drawn McCormick binder. Farm buildings are behind them, and in the far background are ...
Photograph

Men and Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Five men are standing in a field near a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder. Behind the group is a large barn and other outbuildings, and a farmhouse ...
Photograph

Horses with Binder near Farm Buildings on Plains

Date: 1900
Description: View across road towards a team of horses with a McCormick binder in a farmyard on the plains.
Photograph

Group of People Posing in front of House

Date: 1900
Description: Group of people posing in front of a house. A man is sitting on a horse-drawn McCormick binder on the right, and in the background is a barn. One man is po...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick mower in a field. A barn and other farm buildings are in the background on a low hill.
Photograph

Stock Farm

Date: 1920
Description: A handwritten sign identifies the "Shing-Wak Stock Farm, John B. Breselle (?) Prop., Dealer in Draft Horses." It also advertises "Green Mountain Seed Potat...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Lime Sower

Date: 09 04 1925
Description: Rear view of a man walking behind a McCormick-Deering lime sower in a field. In the distance is a farmhouse on the left, and barns on the right.

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