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Men Harvesting Hemp with Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1943
Description: Elevated view of two men harvesting hemp using a McCormick Farmall H tractor and hemp binder No.2. In the background are houses among trees.
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...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering 123-SP Combine in Wheat Field

Date: 1943
Description: Slightly elevated view of farmer Ed Frey at the controls of a McCormick-Deering 123-SP combine on his 1400 acre farm.
Photograph

Titan 10-20 Tractor Removing Tree Stumps on Farm

Date: 1921
Description: Two farmers are using an International Harvester Titan 10-20 HP tractor to remove tree stumps along the fence line of a farm near a road. Electrical poles ...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of Christopher Columbus and hi...
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1915
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the Kentucky line of International Harvester grain drills. Cover features a color illustration of a farmer in a f...
Photograph

Grafton Viaduct

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Description: View across field towards the railroad bridge, seen with the construction almost completed. A man is standing in the middle of the bridge, and two or three...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Reaper near Windmill

Date: 1905
Description: Man and a boy working with a horse-drawn reaper in a field. The reaper is likely a model or replica of the McCormick reaper of 1831. A windmill is in the b...
Photograph

Farms of Burton, Fitlen, and Rustebakke

Date: 1873
Description: View of several farms, including Burton's, Fitlen's and Rustebakke's. Field arrangements and fencing patterns are evident. A man is walking along the bott...
Photograph

Tollef Gjermundsen Farmstead

Date: 1874
Description: View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon...
Photograph

Man in Field

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Description: A man with a hat is sitting in a field in the foreground. A fence runs though the field in the middle ground. In the distance is an upright and wing frame ...
Photograph

Farm with Windmill

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Description: View from hill overlooking a farmstead at the base of the hill with a windmill and a pond. On the right in the foreground, two men, one sitting, one standi...
Photograph

Halvor Nerison Hauge's Farm

Date: 1874
Description: People in a field standing around a mower, with a farmstead and windmill in background, looking west. Halvor Nerison Hauge (1830-1906) purchased the farm i...
Photograph

Tollef Gjermundsen's Farm

Date: 1874
Description: Tollef Gjermundsen farm. Men on horseback stand in a row in the foreground, and a stone house, windmill and barn are in the background.
Photograph

Wing House with Windmill Structure

Date: 1870
Description: View of upright and wing house with adjacent windmill structure made in Batavia, Illinois, by U.S. Wind Eng. Pump Co. The barn has a stone foundation.
Photograph

Landscape View of Man and Farm

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Description: A man in a field stands in the foreground, with a farmhouse, grain barn with outward-swinging threshing bay doors and cupola and other agrarian outbuilding...
Photograph

Men Working with Hay near Farmstead

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Description: Men in a grain field are piling hay or straw onto a wagon as one man stands on top of the pile. On the left is a windmill on a wooden tower and behind are ...
Book or Pamphlet

Russian Champion Catalog Cover

Date: 1912
Description: Cover of a Champion farm equipment catalog written in Russian, with a color illustration of a farmer using a horse-drawn grain binder in a field. A windmil...
Photograph

Threshing Scene

Date: 1905
Description: View across field of threshing scene, with steam-powered threshing machine and horse-drawn wagons. A large group of workers pose with men in suits. On the ...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Corn Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1906
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Empire Corn Drills sold by International Harvester. Features an illustration of a man walking behind a horse-drawn corn...

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