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Aerial View of Contour Strip Farming

Date: 1958
Description: Aerial view of contour strip farming with the Obert Olstad farm in foreground. The Carl Backum farm is in the background.
Photograph

Charles Green

Date: 
Description: Charles Green, the last survivor of the African American colony at Pleasant Ridge (near Lancaster, WI) looks out over the community graveyard.
Photograph

Men with Farm Tools

Date: 1879
Description: Five men, facing away from the camera, are standing in a field. Some of them are holding a rakes and a scythe. A boy is in the foreground facing the camera...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Harvester-Thresher

Date: 09 18 1923
Description: Harvester-Thresher (combine) on a hill in a field drawn by a team of eleven horses.
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...
Poster

Plano Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Advertising poster for Plano brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes featuring color illustrations of the implements and a woman holding two ho...
Photograph

"Tractorette" Operating Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Elizabeth Lancton cultivating with a Farmall H tractor on the 105 acre farm of Cliff Lee. Mrs. Lancton attended classes offered by Fred R. Walkley, pr...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — India

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard with a color illustration of men and women working in fields. Original caption: "India — Primitive methods are still in use. The Reaping Hook has ...
Photograph

Cultivating with Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1949
Description: Color photograph of a farmer in a tobacco field on a McCormick-Deering Farmall Cub tractor with attached cultivator.
Photograph

Harvesting Grain Along Farm Hillside

Date: 09 21 1926
Description: Farmers harvesting grain with a horse-drawn McCormick-Deering no. 7 Hillside harvester-thresher (combine). The hillside machine incorporated a leveling dev...
Photograph

Cornfield near Verona

Date: 07 20 1929
Description: Cornfield near Verona, with two rows unfertilized.
Photograph

Cornfield near Verona

Date: 07 20 1929
Description: Cornfield near Verona, with four rows unfertilized.
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Advertising Catalog Cover

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Plano line of agricultural equipment. Features an illustration of a farm and field seen throu...
Print

IHC Hay Presses

Date: 1914
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for IHC hay presses featuring an illustration of a landscape of a valley with farms and fields.
Photograph

German-Built International Farmall 624 Tractor

Date: 07 1970
Description: Color photograph of German farmers baling hay with an International 624 tractor built in Germany. The photograph was taken in the Grevenbroich area.
Photograph

M-220 Two-Row Cotton Picker

Date: 1956
Description: Man riding an International M-220 two-row cotton picker through a cotton field.
Photograph

McCormick Grain Binder on a Slope

Date: 
Description: Man operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder on the side of a hill.
Photograph

Man in Field

Date: 
Description: A man with a beard and wearing a hat is standing in the foreground in a clover field. A cornfield is just beyond the clover field, and beyond is a barn on ...
Photograph

Man Tastes Wine in Vineyard

Date: 1975
Description: Color photograph of a man drinking from a glass of wine in a vineyard in France. In the background a vineyard worker is cultivating the field with an Inter...
Photograph

Vineyard at Alma

Date: 1890
Description: Woman standing on second story porch and boy standing in vineyard behind small residence. A bluff is in the background.

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