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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...
Photograph

Seed Corn Experiment

Date: 1926
Description: Field of seed corn experiment.
Photograph

Planting Corn with Farmall F-30 Tractor and Four-Row Planter

Date: 06 01 1936
Description: Farmer Glenn Brutus planting corn with a Firestone-equipped Farmall F-30 tractor and a four-row McCormick-Deering planter.
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

Building Diversion Terraces with Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1946
Description: Hugh N. Brown is using a Farmall H and 2-bottom 14-inch plow to build diversion terraces. Shocks of corn are in the background. The original caption reads:...
Photograph

Butch Quirk uses Cub Cadet as Desk Top

Date: 04 1964
Description: Butch Quirk with a Cub Cadet tractor. Original magazine caption states: "Scientific farmer Quirk uses tractor hood as desk top as he records variety of cor...
Photograph

Super A Tractor and Planter

Date: 1952
Description: View towards a man, J.L. Aldrige, using a McCormick Farmall Super A tractor with a A-178 planter to work in a field. The original caption reads: "J.L. Aldr...
Photograph

Farmer with Corn Planter with Fertilizer Attachment

Date: 1921
Description: A man is operating a horse-drawn McCormick corn planter with a fertilizer attachment in a field. A dirt road, barn and farmhouse are in the background acro...
Book or Pamphlet

Samson Corn Planters Brochure

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by the Samson Tractor Company, a division of General Motors Corporation, to advertise corn planters.
Photograph

Farmall H Tractor with H-100 Corn Planter

Date: 1939
Description: Rear view of a man driving a Farmall H tractor with H-100 corn planter in a field.
Photograph

Man Driving Titan 10-20 Tractor Pulling Corn Planter

Date: 1918
Description: View from rear of a man driving a Titan 10-20 tractor pulling a corn planter in a field.
Photograph

Planting Corn in Contour Strip

Date: 05 20 1948
Description: Three-quarter rear view from right of a man driving a tractor with a planter attached. Caption reads: "Wis-1211 Green County, Wis. Gene Rechsteiner, owner...

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