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Workers Loading Sisal Leaves onto Tram Car

Date: 1900
Description: Two workers loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a tram car on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The sisal or hennequen was used by the McCormick Company and...
Postcard

First Wisconsin Aviator-A.P. Warner

Date: 11 04 1909
Description: Color postcard depicting Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit flying his Curtiss Pusher for the first time, November 4, 1909. Warner was the first person in Wisco...
Photograph

Farm and Field near Road

Date: 08 14 1936
Description: Farm and field near a rural tree-lined road. Cars and trucks can be seen in the distance.
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Man Shucks Corn in Field

Date: 1921
Description: A man is sitting and shucking a pile of corn in the middle of a harvested cornfield. In the background is a wagon full of corn.
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Women and Young Girl Leaning on Fence

Date: 1897
Description: Ada Bass, the photographer's wife, leaning against a fence, next to daughter Everetta Bass as a young girl, along a dirt road. The photographer's sister, R...
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Horse-Powered Hay Press

Date: 01 15 1908
Description: Three men in a field use a horse-powered hay press. Two carriages are on the the left.
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Harvesting Grain

Date: 07 20 1921
Description: Horse-drawn cart stacked with grain shocks out in a field. One man is standing on top of the already stacked grain, while another man is passing shocks up.
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Cultivating Tobacco with International Super A

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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...
Photograph

International Harvester Photographer

Date: 1931
Description: A company photographer sets up his camera on top of a car to take a photograph in a field.
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1831 Reaper on Film Set

Date: 1929
Description: Men repair a reaper replica on the motion picture set of "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celeb...
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Directing a Scene

Date: 1929
Description: Production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reaper ...
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Men in Period Costume for "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
Photograph

C-254 Cultivator on Super C Tractor

Date: 1952
Description: Front view looking towarsd a man under an umbrella using a Farmall Super C tractor outfitted with a C-254 cultivator to work in a field. Another man on a t...
Photograph

Man Using Super C Tractor with Cultivator

Date: 1952
Description: View towards a man on a McCormick Farmall Super C tractor with a C-254 cultivator working in a cornfield. Two trucks are parked in the background.
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Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man is picking up bundles of grain by hand, while another man is operating a horse-drawn grain binder. In the left background is a group of people in a s...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Mower and Carriage in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View towards a man wearing a banded hat operating a horse-drawn mower in a field. In the background there is a boy standing near a man in a horse-drawn car...
Photograph

Large Haying Operation

Date: 1900
Description: Men working on haying operation in a field. Two men are driving horse-drawn wagons piled high with hay. One man is standing near one wagon holding an imple...
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Gardeners Loading Produce Truck

Date: 1915
Description: International Model M truck used by Terpstra & Son for garden crop shipments. Two men load the truck bed with crates for shipment of what appears to be a r...
Postcard

Buff Creek Farm

Date: 06 19 1915
Description: Photographic postcard view of Buff Creek Farm. The farmhouse is on the left and the barn and outbuildings are on the right. A man and an automobile are nea...
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Bird's-Eye View of Blue River

Date: 1913
Description: Bird's-eye view of the village. Cropland and barns cover much of the landscape.

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