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Hunter Shows Prize to Man on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1948
Description: McCormick-Deering Farmall H tractor in a fall setting. A hunter, Mr. Vinson E. Gritten, is holding up a dead rabbit for William Foreman and Junior Scott (b...
Photograph

Parade of Wagons Picking Up New McCormick Machinery

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a parade of farmers and young children with horse-drawn wagons picking up their new McCormick machinery. They are parked along a rural dir...
Photograph

At Grandfather's House

Date: 1955
Description: A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs.
Photograph

Family on the Farm

Date: 
Description: Two girls are sitting and facing each other in a field in front of several men and a boy wearing hats, and a woman standing and holding a fan. A horse-draw...
Photograph

Carriage and Buggy on Rural Road

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon along a rural lane with a man walking in front on the left. In the background is a field, fences, farmho...
Photograph

Men in Field with Reaper

Date: 1873
Description: Three men with hats are standing in a field with a reaper and grain cradle. Two children (their images are blurred) are sitting in front of them. In the fi...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Grass Cutting Machinery Advertising Catalog

Date: 1888
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for grass cutting machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features a color illustration of children riding a...
Photograph

International TD-9 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1955
Description: TD-9 International Superior crawler tractor loading South African crop onto a wagon with the attached side loader. A man is driving the tractor, and a chil...
Photograph

Double Yoke of Oxen Pulling Wagon

Date: 02 09 1915
Description: A double yoke of oxen are pulling an empty wagon down the road while a group of people is looking on in the background. There is a stream of water going th...
Photograph

Boy Driving Weber Wagon

Date: 1930
Description: A young boy leading two mules in pulling a Weber wagon full of corn.
Painting

Haying Time

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Description: A farm boy is riding the "hay-fork horse" as the farmer is loading hay into the barn during haying time in July.
Painting

Threshing

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Description: A threshing scene during harvest time. In the background, the separater tender stands on the thresher overseeing the whole operation. He has a weighing dev...
Photograph

Child with Wagon Box

Date: 03 1926
Description: A child wearing a coat and hat is standing in a toy wagon marked "Lightning Coaster" beside a wagon box propped on wooden stakes. A flock of geese is in th...
Photograph

Group Watching Hay Baler

Date: 1961
Description: Elevated view of a men, women, and children gathered around a hay baler and other machines at work on International Harvester's Hickory Hill farm. The farm...
Photograph

Men and a Boy Harvesting Hay

Date: 1900
Description: View across flowering field towards three men and a young boy harvesting hay. A man is standing on top of a stack of hay piled onto a horse-drawn wagon. An...
Photograph

Batzler Farm

Date: 08 1983
Description: "Threshing on the Batzler farm."
Photograph

Stacking Timothy Hay

Date: 08 01 1895
Description: A group of farm workers, four men and four children, pose on the farm of H.D. Dutcher. The men are stacking a large pile of timothy hay, using a ladder to ...
Print

Tractor Uses

Date: 1925
Description: Advertisement for the La Crosse kerosene tractor featuring photographs of the tractor in use on farm jobs. The headline reads: "The HAPPY FARMER Really Bur...
Photograph

Men with Wagon of Hay

Date: 
Description: Young men and a boy posing standing on and near a wagon full of hay pulled by a team of two horses. The horses are wearing covers on their heads and fly-ne...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 85-90

Date: 
Description: 200 years this tree grew here and so did I
We were raised here and brought up young ones

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