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Book or Pamphlet

Empire Jr. Grain Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1906
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Empire Jr. Grain Drills sold by International Harvester. Includes an illustration of a farm scene with farmhouse, windm...
Photograph

Hammer Mill Demonstration

Date: 1932
Description: Elevated view of men and women gathered to watch a hammer mill demonstration at an International Harvester Company demonstration farm. There is a Farmall t...
Photograph

Man in a Field on Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1914
Description: Side view of a man operating a horse-drawn mower in a field with farm buildings in the background. The horses are wearing fly-nets and blinders.
Book or Pamphlet

Windrow-Baling Brochure

Date: 1941
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for balers, featuring a photograph of a man pulling a McCormick-Deering baler in a field with a Farmall A tractor.
Print

Russell and Company Advertising Booklet

Date: 1919
Description: Back cover of a booklet titled, "The Russell & Co. Year Book of Tractors & Threshers." The text reads: "The Old Reliable Line. 78th Year. 1842 to 1919. Geo...
Photograph

Gerry Adelmeyer Farm

Date: 10 1980
Description: "This is the Gerry Adelmeyer farm on the West Bend Road."
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Painting

Dairy Farm

Date: 1948
Description: A painting of a dairy farm, which was part of the State Fair Centennial mural.
Print

Wisconsin Hills

Date: 
Description: Engraved print of a man riding atop a wagonload of hay pulled by a horse along a road in a hilly rural area. On the left is a barn and silos.
Photograph

Farmall Tractor Belt-Driving Machinery in Field

Date: 1931
Description: View across field towards men working in a field. A Farmall tractor is belt-driving machinery, perhaps to bale hay. Farm buildings and silos are in the far...
Photograph

Farm and Bluffs

Date: 10 20 1978
Description: View across field towards a wagon stacked with bales of hay near a barn and a silo at the base of a bluff near Union Center.
Photograph

Threshing Operation

Date: 08 26 1925
Description: View across field towards threshing operation. A tractor on the left is powering the thresher with a long belt. Three men are standing in three horse-drawn...
Photograph

Hay Loader

Date: 09 04 1925
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of two men using a hay loader to fill a horse-drawn wagon. In the distance are farm buildings.
Photograph

View of the Farm in Late Summer

Date: 08 26 2015
Description: View from fence row across a green field towards farm buildings. Hay bales are stacked in rows near a farm buildings on the right. Trees stand tall among a...
Photograph

Tractor Powered Hay Press

Date: 08 25 1927
Description: A tractor in the right foreground is belt driving a hay press. There is also what appears to be a thresher, which one person is aiming into the bed of a tr...
Photograph

First Hay

Date: 1952
Description: A woman is driving a horse-drawn hay wagon pulling a hay loader on the William Houser Farm. A child and a man, each with a hay fork, are riding on the load...
Photograph

Racing the Storm

Date: 1976
Description: Farmers head for the barn with a load of hay bales as a storm looms overhead. A hay baler is hitched between the tractor and the wagon. Farm buildings are ...

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