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Book or Pamphlet

Guarding the Cornfields

Date: 1884
Description: Indian women standing on platforms make noise to scare birds from the cornfield.
Photograph

Camera Crew Films Farmers Harvesting Corn

Date: 09 20 1928
Description: Camera crew from the Cloud County Farm Bureau filming farmers harvesting corn with a Farmall tractor. An International truck used by the crew is parked to ...
Book or Pamphlet

Brantford Steel Binders Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Front and back cover of an advertising catalog for A. Harris, Son & Company of Brantford, Canada, manufacturers of grain binders, mowers and reapers. The c...
Photograph

Church across Cornfield

Date: 1874
Description: View across a cornfield towards the left side of a frame church. There is elaborately patterned shingling on the steeple. Men are posing in and near open w...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. At the center is a portrait of Cyrus McCormick inside an egg shape with...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Fertile Lands with Potato

Date: 1910
Description: A giant, oddly-shaped potato rests on a flatbed railroad car. A horse-drawn carriage with a driver is visible behind the train. White bags filled with pota...
Painting

Steam Power

Date: 
Description: Painting of farmer with a steam powered tractor.
Photograph

Man Sitting in a Field Near a Camera

Date: 10 14 1927
Description: A young man is sitting on a stack of hay or grain in a field near a movie camera on a tripod.
Photograph

Field Photographer

Date: 1921
Description: A photographer, likely an employee of International Harvester, and his hand-crank motion picture camera standing in a field in front of man on top of a wag...
Photograph

Photographer at Cotton Harvest

Date: 1921
Description: A cameraman films a man stooping to pick cotton while other people are looking on from the background.
Photograph

Fence and Landscape in "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still of the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reaper...
Photograph

Cornfield and Cemetery

Date: 09 1967
Description: View over cornfield of a cemetery on the side of a hill surrounded by a fence. On the hill behind the cemetery are more cornfields.
Photograph

"A Load of Montana Spuds"

Date: 
Description: A view of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon which is loaded with giant, six-foot-high potatoes, probably to be used as a tall-tale postcard. Caption reads:...
Photograph

Giant Pumpkin

Date: 
Description: A view of a man standing next to an oxen-drawn wagon carrying a giant pumpkin. Text on the photograph reads: "Just The Right Size For One Pumpkin Pie." Cap...
Photograph

Brass Band at Railroad Depot

Date: 02 26 1915
Description: A brass band led by W.F. Casey, standing at left, welcomes four Alabama Crop Diversification Campaign speakers at a train depot. A train and several buildi...
Photograph

Plymouth in 1622

Date: 
Description: Men work outside dwellings along a shoreline in a reproduction of a painting by W.L. Williams. Copyright by A.S. Burbank, 1891.
Photograph

Home of Governor Bradford

Date: 
Description: Reproduction of a painting by W.L. Williams of the home of Governor Bradford in 1621. Exterior view features logs, a thatched roof, a chimney, and a surro...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of the public school from unpaved road. The building is a two-story wood frame building with a flat roof and bell tower with a flag pole on t...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1929
Description: View of front of the public school, a two-story brick building with a cupola and flagpole over the bell. A cornfield and bluff are in the background.
Photograph

Affiliated Church

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Description: Three-quarter view from across a road of the Affiliated Church. An arched stained glass window is in the front on the left. Tall rectangular stained glass ...

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