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Main Street

Date: 1873
Description: Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams.
Photograph

Horse and Buggy on a Country Road

Date: 1906
Description: View down tree-lined country road near Wausau, taken by Dr. Joseph Smith, talented amateur photographer. It depicts women (probably members of his family) ...
Photograph

Aerial View of Contour Strip Farming

Date: 1958
Description: Aerial view of contour strip farming with the Obert Olstad farm in foreground. The Carl Backum farm is in the background.
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Charles Green

Date: 
Description: Charles Green, the last survivor of the African American colony at Pleasant Ridge (near Lancaster, WI) looks out over the community graveyard.
Photograph

Men with Farm Tools

Date: 1879
Description: Five men, facing away from the camera, are standing in a field. Some of them are holding a rakes and a scythe. A boy is in the foreground facing the camera...
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Farmall H Tractor and Combine

Date: 1949
Description: Farmer harvesting grain with a Farmall H tractor and harvester-thresher (combine).
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...
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Super A Tractor

Date: 
Description: View towards a man driving a Farmall Super A tractor pulling a plow in a field.
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La Pointe from Big Bay Road

Date: 1910
Description: View of La Pointe taken from Big Bay Road on Madeline Island.
Poster

Eureka Mower Advertising Poster

Date: 1885
Description: Advertising poster for the Eureka Mower Company featuring color illustration of a well-dressed farmer riding a mower pulled by two horses. Trees, mountains...
Poster

McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Color illustrations advertising poster for McCormick harvesting machinery showing two steers looking over a fence with images of a reaper, mower, binder an...
Photograph

Village Across Pond

Date: 1875
Description: A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are posing in the field near the pond.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Harvester-Thresher

Date: 09 18 1923
Description: Harvester-Thresher (combine) on a hill in a field drawn by a team of eleven horses.
Poster

Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
Poster

International Harvester Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering 10-20, 15-30 and Farmall tractors showing a color illustration of a tractor and several farming scenes. Includes t...
Poster

Manure Spreader Advertising Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering manure spreaders. Includes color illustration and the text: "No man ever made a mistake by investing in modern equ...
Poster

Manure Spreader Advertising Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering manure spreaders showing color and black and white illustrations of various features.
Poster

South American Grain Drill Advertising Poster

Date: 1930
Description: South American advertising poster for Deering horse-drawn and tractor-drawn grain drills distributed by International Harvester Company Argentina. Imprinte...
Poster

International Junior Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1921
Description: Advertising poster for International Junior tractors sold by International Harvester Company of Great Britain. Imprinted with "80 Finsbury Pavement, London...
Poster

International "Red Baby" Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1923
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering service featuring a color illustration of a "Red Baby" farm truck. The company offered a $1,000 prize to the deale...

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