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Reaping Scene

Date: 1879
Description: Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings...
Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Poster

Titan Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster of World War I veteran returning home to family, farm and new Titan 10-20 tractor. The caption on the poster reads: "Look what dad bough...
Photograph

H. Sveren Farm

Date: 
Description: H. Sveren farm with the family standing in the foreground and a dog, farm buildings and fences in the background. A line of trees is behind the farmhouse o...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company, manufacturers of harvesting machinery. The cover features a framed inset of a scene of...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Advertising Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Advertising catalog for grain cutting (harvesting) machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features an illustration of children sitting with...
Photograph

Drilling Wheat

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of two men using agricultural machinery to drill (plant) wheat. "Superior" sign is on the machinery. A boy and a dog stand nearby. A horse an...
Painting

Haying Time

Date: 
Description: A farm boy is riding the "hay-fork horse" as the farmer is loading hay into the barn during haying time in July.
Photograph

Danville Schoolhouse

Date: 05 1925
Description: View across road of the front facade of a rural schoolhouse. A small dog is lying on the entrance's front steps, and the sign above reads: "Liberty School ...
Photograph

The Glen Farm

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Description: Farm buildings standing near the fields at Glen Farm in Dorset Hollow.
Photograph

Group of People in Farm Field

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of people posing in a field. Part of the field has been cut and there are stacks of grain piled at regular intervals. In ...
Photograph

McArthur Road

Date: 1968
Description: "Brenda & Kay Widmer walk on McArthur Road."
Photograph

Sunny Brae Farm

Date: 1968
Description: "Brenda Widmer walks her dog Bonnie next to the disposal system. In distance is Sunny Brae farm, site of present-day Schnitzler River View Hills mobile hom...
Photograph

Barn Silhouette

Date: 05 1948
Description: "Jim Dobbe & his daughter are silhouetted in the doors of their barn. This is the site of Schnitzler's River View Hills mobile home park."
Photograph

Two Women Posed Outdoors

Date: 
Description: Two women wearing long dresses are posed standing with their hands on their hips in a field in front of a tree. There is a dog near the tree, and part of a...
Photograph

Farm Buildings

Date: 
Description: View across field and fence towards a frame house and a barn in the countryside. There is a dog sitting on the porch.
Photograph

Bentert Farm

Date: 05 1900
Description: View of the farm buildings of Mrs. H. Bentert. A dog is sitting in a field in the foreground, and three people are standing near the house.
Photograph

People Posing in front of Frame House

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Description: Two women are posing sitting, and three women, five men, and two young boys are posing standing on and near the porch of a small frame house. On the right ...
Photograph

Group of People Posing in front of Frame House

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of a man and woman posing sitting in chairs, with a young boy and a dog posing between them. An older boy is standing to their right holding...
Photograph

Group of People in Yard in Front of House

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Description: Two groups of people are posing in yard. On the left a man and woman are posing sitting, with the man resting his hand on a dog. Standing around them are t...

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