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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

Terrace Plowing Demonstration

Date: 09 27 1945
Description: Exhibit of new machinery at the terrace plowing demonstration and conservation field day on the Carl Ribbke farm near Ableman. Some of the 2,000 cars and b...
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Cultivating Tobacco with International Super A

Date: 
Description: Side view of a man cultivating tobacco in a field with an International Super A tractor. A house and other buildings are among trees in the background, inc...
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Trailing Plow with Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: View across field towards a man using a Farmall H tractor with a 2-furrow trailing plow to work in a field. A farmhouse and several outbuildings are in th...
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Steam Tractor

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Description: A view of two men on a steam tractor with a gang plow in a field. An automobile is behind the plow.
Painting

Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
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Women with 123-SP Combine

Date: 1944
Description: Two women in a field with a McCormick-Deering 123-SP harvester-thresher (combine). An automobile is parked in the background on the left.
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Man Operating Horse-Drawn Manure Spreader

Date: 04 18 1927
Description: A man wearing a hat sitting on a two-horse manure spreader with farm buildings, an automobile, and a cow in the background. The original caption reads: "Ke...
Print

Tractor Tilling Newsletter

Date: 07 1917
Description: Cover of the Volume 1, Number 2 issue of Tractor Tilling newsletter, produced by the Smith Form-a-Tractor Company. The cover features a photograph o...
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Plowing on International Harvester Company Farm

Date: 1962
Description: Elevated view of International Harvester employees using the company's tractors and plows to work in a field on a company farm in Tifton. International Har...
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Schmidt Farm

Date: 07 04 1987
Description: "The corn in John Schmidt's field at the intersection of Cty Tr P & Allen Road was knee-high plus a lot more on the 4th of July."
Photograph

Tractor Drawn Disk Harrow

Date: 08 02 1928
Description: Right side view of a man using a tractor to pull a disk harrow in a field or orchard. An automobile is parked in the background on the right.
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Large Horse-Drawn Wagons Loaded with Sacks of Grain

Date: 1915
Description: View down roads towards a man driving an automobile. Behind him in a field are two large horse-drawn wagons piled high with sacks of grain. In the backgrou...
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Man Using Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1947
Description: Elevated view looking down at a man using a Farmall Cub tractor to belt-drive a corn sheller. The man is inside the open doorway of a farm building bent ov...
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Man Harvesting Corn with Farmall M Tractor

Date: 09 09 1948
Description: View across harvested field towards a man using a wagon and an ensilage harvester drawn by a Farmall M tractor on 132 acre farm of A.W. Reisseeum. In the b...
Photograph

Two Men Using Tractors to Pull Disk Harrows

Date: 1919
Description: View across field towards two men using tractor to pull disk harrows. In the background another tractor and two automobiles are parked.
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Tractor-Drawn Corn Picker

Date: 09 23 1927
Description: View from front of a tractor pulling a corn picker in a cornfield. A man is driving the tractor, and another man is standing on a wagon, unloading the corn...
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Spring Ground Preparation

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Rear view of a man using a Farmall tractor in a field. In the background on the right are men standing near two automobiles.
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Spring Ground Preparation

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: A man is driving a Farmall tractor which is pulling another man on a machine. They are working in a field. There is an automobile parked in the background.
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Farmall Mounted Cultivator

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of a man driving a Farmall with a cultivator mounted on it in a field. There is an automobile parked in the background.

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