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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...
Poster

Woman Advertising Deering Harvesters

Date: 1907
Description: Poster advertising Deering harvesting machinery. Features a woman eating cherries.
Photograph

Group of People on Stagecoach

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Description: Women inside, and on top of a stagecoach with their umbrellas. A wagon is in the background on the right.
Photograph

Group of People on Stagecoach

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Description: Group of people posing on top of stagecoach. It was a special occasion when the old stagecoach was brought out. The top-loading was probably done to get ev...
Photograph

Double Yoke of Oxen Pulling Wagon

Date: 02 09 1915
Description: A double yoke of oxen are pulling an empty wagon down the road while a group of people is looking on in the background. There is a stream of water going th...
Photograph

Stacking Alfalfa

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Description: Horse-drawn wagons surround a large stack of alfalfa while men are using horses to lift more on the pile. Cornfalfa Farms.
Photograph

Alfalfa Field "The Manx"

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Description: Photographic postcard view across harvested field towards a man holding a rake and standing next to a horse-drawn wagon, and two women in the wagon sitting...
Photograph

Grain Binders in Field

Date: 1902
Description: A group of farmers, including several young girls and boys, using two horse-drawn McCormick grain binders to harvest a crop.
Photograph

The Sauk Prairie

Date: 1892
Description: A view of the Sauk Prairie looking south. From the left are the photographer's brother, Frank Bass; Mrs. Edward (Ada Burlingame) Bass and her daughter, Eve...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

20 H.P. Type B Tractor Used on the Curtis Farm

Date: 1912
Description: An International 20 H.P. Type B Tractor owned by J.S. Curtis, but operated by G.W. Crosby. According to the original caption, Crosby operated the outfit wi...
Photograph

Poster Illustrating Old and New Harvesting Methods

Date: 05 15 1928
Description: Poster or display board illustrating the differences between "old" and "new" methods of harvesting grain. Includes images illustrating harvesting methods b...
Photograph

Marjorie Holsteen on McCormick-Deering Tractor

Date: 10 20 1927
Description: Marjorie Holsteen sits on top of a McCormick-Deering 15-30(?) tractor wearing a light dress and stockings.
Photograph

"Tractorette" Group on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. John T. Shea, Mary Elma Riddell, and Mrs. John R. Riddell, participants in "Tractorette" class, are posing around a Farmall H tractor with J.S. Inman,...
Photograph

Group of People Watching Threshing Demonstration

Date: 1930
Description: A group of spectators watching a threshing demonstration with wagons and a McCormick-Deering All-Steel Thresher.
Photograph

Picnic in University Heights

Date: 1908
Description: Four girls are sitting on a hill in University Heights. The city of Madison is in the background.
Photograph

Women in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Two women wearing large hats stand in a field carrying a pail. Farm buildings are in the far background.
Photograph

Marinette County Farm

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of two women working in a large vegetable garden. A long building, perhaps a barn, and a smaller building are on the left. In the background ...
Photograph

Corn Picking

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Description: Woman picking corn on a farm.
Photograph

Crowd Gathering in a Field

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Description: A large group of men, women, and children gather in a field.

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