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Tree in Cornfield

Date: 08 23 1985
Description: A lone tree standing in a rural Ottawa cornfield in western Waukesha county.
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Steam Power

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Description: Painting of farmer with a steam powered tractor.
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Threshing

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Description: A threshing scene during harvest time. In the background, the separater tender stands on the thresher overseeing the whole operation. He has a weighing dev...
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Steam Power

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Description: A harvest scene in which an old-fashioned steam-powered tractor is hooked up to a threshing machine. There is a pile of coal next to the tractor and a tank...
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Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
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Corn Shredding

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Description: Two farm workers in the righthand foreground toss a corn bundle up to the horse-drawn corn shredding machine to be shredded. To the left, a man loads feed ...
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Helicopters Over Rice Fields

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Description: Elevated view of helicopters flying over rice fields in Vietnam.
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Alfred Lunt and Threshers

Date: 1942
Description: Alfred Lunt watching as farm workers pitch grain into a thresher on the Ten Chimneys farm. Two men at the end of a chute collect the separated grain in sac...
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"Of Mice and Men" Publicity Still

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Description: Production still from the film "Of Mice and Men." A man is sitting on a horse while two other men are sitting and standing next to a harvesting machine in ...
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The Cabbage Patch

Date: 10 20 1988
Description: A man is sitting on a flatbed covered in baskets of cabbages, and is holding up two cabbages. He is wearing overalls, and a cap that reads: "Puerto Rico." ...
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Louis Felix

Date: 10 28 1988
Description: A man in the foreground is holding up a cauliflower in one hand and holding a machete in the other. In the background six other people are working in a cab...
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Wisconsin Farm

Date: 1952
Description: Aerial view of a farm in the summer.
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Tepees

Date: 10 1955
Description: Shocks of corn are lined up in a cornfield during harvest.
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Irrigation

Date: 06 1964
Description: Irrigation sprinklers spraying water onto a field near Grand Marsh.
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Harvest

Date: 1952
Description: A man driving a tractor, pulling a chopper filling a forage wagon, over gently rolling hills.

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