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Deering Tillage Implements Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of tillage implements featuring an illustration of a farm seen from a high...
Photograph

Buckeye Road Accident Scene

Date: 10 11 1949
Description: Buckeye Road accident scene, looking north near Homburg farm, 3976 County Trunk Highway AB.
Photograph

Wisconsin Ribbon of Concrete

Date: 11 1951
Description: Aerial view of US Highway 14 southeast of La Crosse descending into Mormon Coulee. The original caption of the print, which is undated, describes the road ...
Photograph

Terrace Plowing Demonstration

Date: 09 27 1945
Description: Exhibit of new machinery at the terrace plowing demonstration and conservation field day on the Carl Ribbke farm near Ableman. Some of the 2,000 cars and b...
Photograph

Men in Automobile near Hay Loader

Date: 1919
Description: View across field. Two men in the foreground on the left are sitting in an automobile. Behind them men are working with a hay loader and a wagon in the fie...
Photograph

Automobile on Country Road

Date: 08 23 1917
Description: Man, possibly Joseph Brown, attending to an automobile on the road between Waukesha and Ionsman. Rural landscape and farm in the background.
Photograph

Experimental Combine

Date: 1943
Description: Lee and Gray, International Harvester employees, and Fowler McCormick, looking at an experimental combine (harvester-thresher) in a field. A Farmall tracto...
Photograph

Men in Car on Dirt Road

Date: 
Description: Four men in a car with the number four on the front is driving up a dirt road surrounded by fields. Hay bales are in the field on the right.
Photograph

Trailing Plow with Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: View across field towards a man using a Farmall H tractor with a 2-furrow trailing plow to work in a field. A farmhouse and several outbuildings are in th...
Photograph

Man and Women Driving on Rural Road

Date: 1914
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man driving three women in an International Model M truck along a rural road. In the background is a valley with farm buildings...
Painting

Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
Photograph

Farm Irrigation

Date: 1920
Description: A man crouching in a farm field near a wooden tool, possibly doing irrigation work. A dirt road behind the man leads to several buildings and a water tower...
Photograph

Bernard Arms on a Farm

Date: 05 19 1929
Description: Bernard Arms stands atop a post on a farm.
Photograph

International Harvester Demonstration Farm

Date: 1920
Description: View of a farmhouse, barn, water tower, and other buildings on an International Harvester Company demonstration farm. The IHC logo is on the water tower ta...
Photograph

Plowing on an IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 04 28 1932
Description: View across field on an International Harvester Company farm towards a group of men standing and watching a plowing demonstration. Several barns and other ...
Photograph

Gary Giese Farm

Date: 2004
Description: Gary Giese's farm milks 30 cows that produce about 1,000 lbs. of milk per day.
Photograph

Tim Enderle with Elk

Date: 2004
Description: About 40 elk are currently being raised on the Enderle farm by Tim Enderle.
Photograph

Rundown Farm Buildings

Date: 10 1930
Description: View across a road and field of several rundown farm buildings located near a farmhouse. The image was used to illustre: "poor farm buildings."
Postcard

Pieper's Fruit Farm

Date: 
Description: Color postcard of an aerial view of Pieper's Fruit Farm. The apple orchards are behind the farmhouse and outbuildings.
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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