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Farmer with Horse-Drawn Corn Planter

Date: 1916
Description: Farmer operating an International Harvester corn planter with fertilizer attachment drawn by two horses or donkeys. The photograph was taken for, or compil...
Print

"No More Crooked Rows"

Date: 
Description: Inside spread of 4-page advertising brochure for Fuller & Johnson Mfg. Co. Limited with a chromolithograph of a Bonanza Forge Drop planter, "The only perfe...
Photograph

McKay Nursery Field

Date: 05 07 1937
Description: McKay Nursery field with men planting, and horse teams pulling cultivators.
Book or Pamphlet

CB&Q Corn Planter Catalog

Date: 1916
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's CB&Q line of corn planters showing a farmer in a field with a horse-drawn planter.
Photograph

Farmer with Walking Planter

Date: 1925
Description: Farmer in a field walking behind a P&O planter drawn by a mule. There is an automobile on a road near a house behind a fence in the background.
Photograph

W-30 Tractor and Grain Drill

Date: 06 18 1937
Description: Farmer planting with a W-30 tractor and a 28-marker grain drill. The equipment was owned by Frank Gobert in Otterburn, Manitoba, Canada. The original capti...
Book or Pamphlet

Hoosier Corn Planters and Drills

Date: 1903
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Hoosier corn planters and drills manufactured by the American Seeding-Machine Company. The company was later purchased ...
Photograph

Planting Corn on Bainridge Farm

Date: 05 20 1924
Description: A man changing the check wire while planting corn on Bainridge Farm.
Photograph

Drilling Wheat

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of two men using agricultural machinery to drill (plant) wheat. "Superior" sign is on the machinery. A boy and a dog stand nearby. A horse an...
Photograph

Young Man with P&O Planter at Stovall's Plantation

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Young African-American man sitting on a P&O planter pulled by mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall.
Photograph

Man Using Walking Planter

Date: 05 02 1925
Description: Man using walking planter pulled by a mule in a field.
Photograph

Man Seated on Horse-Drawn Planter

Date: 05 02 1925
Description: African-American man seated on a P&O planter pulled by four work horses or mules in large field.
Photograph

Man with Walking Planter

Date: 05 02 1925
Description: Man with horse-drawn walking planter in a field. A small dog sits in a furrow nearby on the right.
Photograph

Man using Horse-Drawn Walking Planter

Date: 05 02 1925
Description: Man using walking planter pulled by a horse through a field. A small dog sits in a furrow nearby on the right.
Photograph

Man using Horse-Drawn Walking Planter

Date: 1920
Description: A man is using a walking planter pulled by a work horse or mule through a field.
Photograph

Planting Soybeans

Date: 06 25 1925
Description: A man is emptying soybeans from a bag into a planter outfitted with a bean attachment pulled by two horses through a field.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Deering Seeding Equipment Catalog Cover

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick-Deering seeding equipment. Features two photographs of men using horse-drawn and tractor driven grain drills.
Photograph

Men Planting Seedlings

Date: 
Description: Man and a boy posing standing and holding white pine seedlings in a field. Four men are crouching in a row planting the seedlings in a field. In the backgr...
Photograph

Trout Lake Nursery, First Furrow

Date: 05 1911
Description: View across field towards a number of men working to clear a field. There is a team of horses pulling a plow to create a furrow, with a pine forest in the ...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Seeder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man using a horse-drawn seeder in a field. Trees and farm buildings are in the far background.

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