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Hunter Shows Prize to Man on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1948
Description: McCormick-Deering Farmall H tractor in a fall setting. A hunter, Mr. Vinson E. Gritten, is holding up a dead rabbit for William Foreman and Junior Scott (b...
Photograph

Holt Crawler at Winnipeg Tractor Contest

Date: 1911
Description: Men in suits and hats follow along as a man plows with a Holt crawler tractor at the Winnipeg tractor contest in Canada. Another man in the foreground is p...
Photograph

Case 20-40 Tractor at Winnipeg Tractor Contest

Date: 1911
Description: Men pose with a J.I. Case 20-40 tractor at the Winnipeg tractor contest in Canada.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

M.D. Stocking on a 15-30 Tractor

Date: 1935
Description: M.D. Stocking posing for a photograph while sitting on his McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor in a harvested farm field.
Photograph

Harvesting Onions

Date: 1965
Description: A farmer drives a tractor through a field harvesting onions.
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Planting Pine Tree Seedlings

Date: 
Description: Four men prepare pine tree seedlings for planting in an open field. One man drives a small tractor, while two men stand behind. Another man sits on a tree ...
Photograph

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.
Print

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...
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Turner Simplicity Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Cover of a brochure advertising the Turner Simplicity Farm Tractor. The cover features a photograph of a man using the tractor along with the caption: "Tur...
Photograph

Ed Radke

Date: 10 1980
Description: "Ed Radke turns soil on his property."
Photograph

Ed Radke

Date: 10 1980
Description: "Ed Radke turns soil on his property."
Photograph

Picking Corn

Date: 01 1986
Description: "Picking corn on the Luhn farm."
Book or Pamphlet

Appleton 12-20 Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Appleton tractor featuring an illustration of a man behind the wheel of the machine. A photograph of a farmer usin...
Book or Pamphlet

Boring Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Boring tractor, featuring a color illustration of a man using the tractor to work in a farm field.
Print

Tolva de Sembrar Arado-Rastra

Date: 
Description: Spanish language advertisement for an International Harvester plow, featuring a color photograph of a man using the equipment in a field and a headline rea...
Photograph

Cutting Firewood

Date: 1955
Description: Elna Krueger stands with another woman and a man while cutting firewood using a belt-driven saw by a tractor in a field in the background on the left. The...
Photograph

Silaging Operation

Date: 1900
Description: View across snowy field towards men engaged in a silaging operation with a tractor powered husker and shredder. Three men are standing on horse-drawn wagon...
Photograph

Madison Area Golf Courses Open for Season

Date: 04 10 1964
Description: Golf pro Kully Schlicht drives a tractor to manicure the grounds at Blackhawk Country club.

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