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Nikita Khrushchev Visits Iowa Farm

Date: 1959
Description: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev inspecting hogs on a farm. Khrushchev is accompanied by Roswell "Bob" Garst and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge.
Photograph

Newly-built Farmhouse

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Description: A man standing on a hill with his back to the camera surveys newly-built farm buildings and a large frame house with symmetrical features. Fencing runs thr...
Painting

Residence of Mr. Martin Lutscher

Date: 1875
Description: Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s...
Photograph

Feeding the Hogs

Date: 10 22 1922
Description: A farmer feeding green corn over a fence to hogs on the Puffer farm.
Photograph

Field with Horse-Drawn Corn Binder near Farm Buildings

Date: 1900
Description: View from distance of a man standing in a field with fences and farm buildings behind him. A horse-drawn corn binder is standing in the field, and cows, pi...
Painting

Farm Painting

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Description: Farm painting of the Pierson Young residence.
Postcard

The Return From the Alps

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Description: Color postcard of a Swiss farmer returning home with his animals. Many of the animals, and five of the shepherds, are labeled with a name. The path loops b...
Photograph

Sand Hill Supply Company Wagon

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Description: View of two men standing near a Sand Hill Supply Company mule-drawn Conestoga-type wagon with a slaughtered pig hanging on the back. Published by C.L. Haye...
Photograph

Hogs at Feeding Time

Date: 10 12 1895
Description: Forty-nine hogs at feeding time on the farm of William Miller. The hogs are eleven-months old and weigh approximately 260 lbs each. A wagon and horse team ...
Photograph

Boy with Calf

Date: 1931
Description: Claire Alexander posing with a young calf in a pasture near a wooded ravine at his father's farm. There is a manure spreader and shed in the background.
Photograph

Hogs and Chickens

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Description: Group of hogs eating corn cobs strewn on the ground, with chickens walking among them. In the background are stacks of hay, and beyond is a field and line ...
Photograph

Hogs Feeding near Corn Wagons

Date: 1932
Description: Hogs feed near two corn wagons in an open field on the Charles Knuth farm near Vinton, Iowa. On the reverse is written, "This is a level farm and the land ...
Photograph

Hogs

Date: 1933
Description: Three hogs feed on the Larson farm. There are farm wagons in the background and snow on the ground.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Foldout Card — Inside

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Description: Foldout card for Wm. Deering & Co. harvesting machinery. This scene depicts a young boy in a farmyard playing a flute while sitting on the side of a water ...
Photograph

Feeder Pigs

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Description: View of a pig pen with a large group of pigs. Identified as feeder pigs, with straw winter shelters for young stock. The straw frames were on poles with st...
Photograph

Inside the Pig Pen

Date: 1955
Description: Several large pigs are standing along the fence in their pen. Behind the pen fence is a cleared field and in the far distance a forested hill. The shadow o...
Photograph

Pigs in the Mud

Date: 07 2014
Description: Three pigs wallowing in the mud near the side of a wire fence. A trough of water is behind the pigs.
Photograph

Man on Horse-Drawn Rotary Hoe

Date: 07 03 1925
Description: Rear view of a man on a horse-drawn rotary hoe working in a field. Pigs are in a fenced-in field in the background. There are farm buildings in the far dis...
Photograph

Driving to the Farm

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Description: View from road, with the front of an automobile on the right, towards a farm. Cows and pigs are in a pasture, and two silos are next to the barn.
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View of Barn from Cornfield

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Description: View from the edge of a cornfield towards a barn and two silos. Cows and pigs are in a pasture on the left.

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