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McCormick Advertising Poster

Date: 1902
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster for McCormick mowers and rakes. Features on the top half a young boy with a reaping hook/sickle and a young girl holdin...
Photograph

Amund Rustebakke Farm

Date: 1873
Description: View across field towards the Amund Rustebakke farm. Twelve haystacks dominate the left and center of the image, and two people are standing on top of the ...
Photograph

Norwegian-style Barn with Cupola

Date: 1876
Description: Distant view from hill of a barnyard with people, split-rail fencing, cattle, a Norwegian-style barn with cupola and rooster weather vane and an animal bui...
Photograph

Men in Field with Reaper

Date: 1873
Description: Three men with hats are standing in a field with a reaper and grain cradle. Two children (their images are blurred) are sitting in front of them. In the fi...
Photograph

Farm with Traditional Norwegian Sval House

Date: 1870
Description: People in field with hay piles and traditional Norwegian Sval House (right) and salt-box house (left) with adjoining garden and farm buildings in the backg...
Photograph

Family and Workers in Field

Date: 1895
Description: A large family group and workers pose in field in front of farming machinery and haystacks.
Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Hay Presses Catalog Cover

Date: 1912
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester hay presses. The cover features an illustration of a young woman dressed in a light blue ...
Photograph

Barn Raising

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of a large group of workers, along with women, children, and dogs, posing on the frame of the barn they are building.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Grass Cutting Machinery Advertising Catalog

Date: 1888
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for grass cutting machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features a color illustration of children riding a...
Photograph

Group Watching Hay Baler

Date: 1961
Description: Elevated view of a men, women, and children gathered around a hay baler and other machines at work on International Harvester's Hickory Hill farm. The farm...
Photograph

Harvesting Red Clover

Date: 09 03 1895
Description: The Fred Judas family poses with their second crop of red clover, three miles south of Medford. With their rakes and mower, they are converting the red clo...
Photograph

Haystacks

Date: 1910
Description: A man is standing among four large haystacks, and a young girl is siting posing on the top of the haystack on the right.
Photograph

On the Hay Wagon

Date: 1932
Description: Leland Kopps holds a dog as he poses standing with his father John on top of a load of hay. A team of two horses are harnessed to the wagon which pulls a h...
Photograph

Feeding Cows

Date: 07 24 1904
Description: Jennie and Edgar Krueger feeding hay to several young cows through a fence. In the background are fields and trees.
Postcard

Couple with a Hayrick

Date: 1890
Description: A young woman and man pose behind a hayrick in a farm field. They both wear hats.
Book or Pamphlet

"Something New" Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: The New Champion Binder catalog cover, with and without the "Something New" onion skin cover. Illustration features a woman standing with a young girl at a...
Photograph

Unidentified Residence and People

Date: 
Description: Outdoor group portrait of a family at their farm. The family is posing on the far right in the yard. On the left near the house is a windmill with a sign f...
Photograph

Family with Lunch at Threshing Operation in Canada

Date: 11 22 1927
Description: In the foreground a man is standing with three women and one girl. In the background men are near a tractor, thresher, and wagons of hay near a haystack.
Photograph

Group of Workers in Field

Date: 05 29 1928
Description: A large group of people, men, women, and children, are posing in a field near a large stack of hay.
Photograph

Group of People Posing in Field

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Description: Large group of men, women and children posing in a field. Two men are on horse-drawn McCormick mowers. The rest of the group is holding agricultural implem...

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