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Prize-Winning Cabbage

Date: 09 28 1895
Description: Five-acre cabbage field of Martin Anderson near Grantsburg, with several frame houses in the background. Mr. Anderson is holding a prize-winning head of ca...
Poster

Deering Farm Machinery Calendar

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising calendar for Deering tractors and farm implements featuring an oval color illustration of a European farmhouse with thatched roof, farm laborer...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Siberia

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard of horses pulling a grain binder. Man seated on machine. Caption reads "Siberia — A Harvest Scene near Tobolsk, where American Harvesting Machines...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Russia

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard with a color illustrations of an International Harvester self-rake reaper pulled by two camels in Russia. Caption: "Russia — Camels are used as dr...
Photograph

Farmers Baling Hay with IHC Hay Press

Date: 01 15 1908
Description: Three men are posing in a field while baling hay with an IHC horse-driven hay press.
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1872
Description: Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental health Institute) is seen in the distance in this long view from across cornfields.
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Boys Doing Gymnastics in Field

Date: 1874
Description: Three young men doing gymnastics in a field near a cow, with other people standing and posing behind them. Two people are in a wagon. In the background are...
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Experimental Cotton Picker Mounted on a Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1944
Description: Field test of an experimental International Harvester cotton picker mounted on a Farmall B tractor. The caption reads "Experimental IH low-drum 1-row Farma...
Print

Reeves Straw Stacker Advertisement

Date: 1888
Description: Advertising brochure for the Reeves Extension Oscillating Straw Stacker, with testimonial clippings. Features a color illustration top center, showing a ma...
Photograph

Farmhands Working with Cane

Date: 11 24 1915
Description: A group of farmhands, including young boys, stripping the fodder from the cane before it is taken to the press where the sap is extracted.
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Loading a Wagon

Date: 01 1916
Description: A farmer shoveling corn stalks from a field into a wagon.
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Deering Corn Binder

Date: 1915
Description: Demonstration for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition showing how the labor swing bundle elevator of the Deering corn binder operates.
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Mr. H. Puttemans using Chattanooga Reversible Plow

Date: 1919
Description: Mr. H. Puttemans turns under a failed rice crop by means of a horse-drawn Chattanooga Reversible Disc Plow at the Polytechnic School in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Photograph

Horse-Powered Hay Press

Date: 01 15 1908
Description: Three men in a field use a horse-powered hay press. Two carriages are on the the left.
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Three Men Operating Horse-Powered Hay Press

Date: 01 15 1908
Description: Three men working with a horse-powered hay press. The horse is on the right. There are bales of hay stacked in the background.
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International Model M Truck Near Cornfield

Date: 1913
Description: A man is leaning out of an International Model M truck near a cornfield.
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"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:...
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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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J.H. Gilchrist with Granddaughter in Cotton Field

Date: 1915
Description: J.H. Gilchrist, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, eyeglasses, and long coat, is standing in a cotton field on his farm to show his granddaughter, Lelia Sykes, th...
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Girl with Lunchpail

Date: 1918
Description: A girl wearing a hat, winter coat and gloves walking through a field while carrying a lunch pail.

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