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Tractorette Field Demonstration

Date: 1942
Description: Instructor Mr. Schweitzer reviewing the operation of a Farmall M tractor with a group of women. The women are (L to R): Donna Mehaffy, Oakville; Marian Hul...
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Two Men Crouching in a Farm Field

Date: 09 12 1927
Description: Two men dressed in hats and ties are crouching down in a farm field to show the size of the plants. One of the men has a pipe in his mouth.
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Price-Campbell Cotton Picker

Date: 1924
Description: Man on the Price-Campbell cotton picker.
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McCormick Auto-Mower

Date: 07 24 1900
Description: Engineer E.A. Johnston operating a single-cylinder version of the McCormick Auto-Mower at the McCormick Works. Johnston was Director of Engineering for the...
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Soviet Government Representatives at Farm

Date: 08 11 1944
Description: Six Russian representatives of the Soviet government observing a new McCormick-Deering Company Model 50-T hay baler at the Bowman Dairy Farm on Fish Hatche...
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Men in Field with Roller Coaster in Background

Date: 07 03 1912
Description: Five men standing in a field with harvested wheat and straw. There is a rollercoaster in the background on the left.
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"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,...
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"Tractorettes" with Instructor

Date: 1942
Description: A group of "Tractorette" participants are looking on as their teacher, L.J. DeMars, assistant manager of the Blanchard Motor Company in Springfield, is ins...
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Louis Bertrand

Date: 1930
Description: Mr. Louis Bertrand, operator of twelve McCormick tractors and twelve No. 11 harvester-threshers, poses for a photograph.
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Francis Shirbroun Delivers Mail in Farmall A Tractor

Date: 1941
Description: Francis Shirbroun delivers mail to a mailbox in a Farmall A tractor that has been fitted with a homemade cab for delivering mail. The cab has a "FARMALL" d...
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80th Anniversary Founding of Swiss Colony

Date: 08 16 1925
Description: A chorus of men singing on stage with a crowd watching. A group of officials seated on the right. Rolling farmland in the background.
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Alvin Sebald

Date: 1931
Description: Alvin Sebald, 14, a student at Rhine Center School, poses in front of a tree. He is wearing bib overalls and a necktie. There is a barn and other farm buil...
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Couple Standing in a Field

Date: 1921
Description: Unidentified smiling couple standing in a field near an automobile.
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McCormick-Deering 15-30 in New Zealand

Date: 07 23 1928
Description: A McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor in a New Zealand field. Five men stand in a field gathered around bushels of wheat, and one man drives a tractor pulling ...
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Group Portrait of the Association of State Foresters

Date: 10 28 1936
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the state foresters at a meeting of the National Association of State Foresters in Wisconsin, October 28-30th.
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Plano Manufacturing Company Calendar

Date: 1901
Description: Calendar for Light Running Plano binders, mowers-headers, reapers-hayrakes, & sickle grinders. The calendar has an illustration of a man using Jone's Lever...
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Jennie and Edgar Posing with Dead Rabbit and Two Dead Birds

Date: 04 04 1904
Description: Jennie and Edgar Krueger suspending a tree limb on their shoulders on which is hanging a dead rabbit and two birds. Each of them is holding a rifle over th...
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Outdoor Portrait of the Alexander Krueger Family

Date: 1904
Description: Outdoor Portrait of the Alexander Kruger family posing on and behind a large fallen tree. Florentina and Alexander Kruger are standing behind the tree, whi...
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Krueger Family in a Wheat Field

Date: 1908
Description: Florentina, Jennie, Edgar, and Alexander Krueger standing in the middle of a wheat field on their farm.
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Sunday Ride

Date: 1908
Description: Members of the Krueger family, including Edgar, Florentina, Jennie, and Sarah, sitting together in a lumber wagon on a Sunday ride. A two-horse team is pul...

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