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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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Oliver Chilled Plow Works Advertisement

Date: 1883
Description: Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f...
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Terrace Plowing Demonstration

Date: 09 27 1945
Description: Art Giese, Loganville, and state soil conservation committee members, Ben Rusy, Madison; M.H. Ward, Durand; and Paul Weis, Waunakee, inspecting a two-way p...
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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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Group of Men Watching Man Plow with Mogul 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1916
Description: Group of men watching as a man plows with a Mogul 8-16 tractor. Women and children stand on the left in the background. The event may be a demonstration.
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Well-Dressed Man with a P&O Plow

Date: 1920
Description: A man wearing a hat and overcoat is standing near a P&O plow with his hand on a lever.
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Cranberry Growers

Date: 10 1984
Description: Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1945
Description: Men in waders harvesting cranberries. In the foreground the fields have been flooded for the harvest. In the background crates have been stacked along the ...
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1945
Description: Men in flooded cranberry field for harvest.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1980
Description: Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh.
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Rock Island CTX Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Interior spread of a pamphlet advertising the Rock Island "CTX" tractor plow. The advertisement features an illustration of a male farmer using a Heider tr...
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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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Man Sharpening Blade in Timothy Hay Field

Date: 07 16 1895
Description: Man sharpening a scythe blade in a field of timothy hay. Another man stands near him in the field, and in the far background a man sits in a buggy with a t...
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Arthur Stubb

Date: 1932
Description: Arthur Stubb, 13, a student at Peck School, "dragging the field before the grain was planted." He poses wearing a cap, jacket and bib overalls, with the re...
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Boy with Calf

Date: 1931
Description: Claire Alexander posing with a young calf in a pasture near a wooded ravine at his father's farm. There is a manure spreader and shed in the background.
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Men Pushing Binder Across Field

Date: 1900
Description: View from rear of six men pulling a binder across a field. A man is standing on the back of the binder holding a whip in one hand. Other men are standing a...
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10-20 Tractor, New Zealand

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Description: Left side profile view of a man smoking a pipe while driving an International 10-20 tractor, without a engine cover, up a small hill in New Zealand. The tr...
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Farmall H Pulling a Seaman Tiller in a Field of Muckland

Date: 1946
Description: Three-quarter rear view from left side of a man driving a Farmall H pulling a Seaman tiller on the big Zellwood Farms.
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Farmall Tractor and Russell "Junior"

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Right side view of two men in a wet, muddy field. One of the men is driving a Farmall tractor which is pulling another man who is standing on the back of a...
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Man with Experimental Farmall Cub Pulling Disk-Harrow

Date: 1948
Description: View across field towards a man using an experimental Farmall Cub pulling a four-foot tandem disk-harrow on a farm.

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