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Rock County Display Booth

Date: 08 29 1926
Description: Rock County farm crops exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Photograph

Reapers Field Demonstration or Contest

Date: 1910
Description: A group of men watch several reapers at work in a field. The reapers are likely part of a field demonstration or contest pitting different brand machines a...
Photograph

Model of Men Working with Farm Equipment

Date: 1932
Description: A model or diorama depicting farmers with a Farmall tractor, truck, harvester-thresher (combine) and a horse in a field. The display was likely part of Int...
Photograph

Hinsdale Demonstration

Date: 1945
Description: A man demonstrates a McCormick-Deering cotton picker under a tent on the Hinsdale experimental farm.
Photograph

Farm and Home Week Activities

Date: 02 04 1952
Description: Potatoes from all over the state are displayed at the stock pavilion on the University of Wisconsin campus during Farm and Home Week. Ihir Birjandr, a grad...
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Tractor Demonstration

Date: 05 17 1916
Description: Men are watching the demonstration of an Avery Company tractor pulling a Hoosier seed drill (?) across a field at Newsorn Farm during the annual meeting of...
Print

Empire Mower and Reaper

Date: 1893
Description: Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “...
Drawing

"Testing of First Reaper at Steele's Tavern"

Date: 
Description: "Testing of First Reaper at Steele's Tavern." Second version illustrating occasion.
Photograph

Men with Farmall H Tractor and No. 42 Combine

Date: 1940
Description: Four men posing with a Farmall H tractor pulling a No. 42 combine in a field in the Snake River Valley. The tractor and combine were being demonstrated in ...
Photograph

Farm Progress Days

Date: 1973
Description: Elevated view of a group of men demonstrating the use of a tractor belt powering a threshing machine. A crowd of people are watching from the sidelines.
Photograph

IH Display at Fair

Date: 11 10 1927
Description: View across lawn towards a display of tractors, trucks, cream separators, and the other implements around a counter with posters and signs. There is a corn...

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