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Men Using Tractor and Threshing Machine

Date: 1897
Description: Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a...
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Barn Raising

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of a large group of workers, along with women, children, and dogs, posing on the frame of the barn they are building.
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Hops Farming

Date: 1880
Description: Group portrait of men and women posing in hop field. Most of the women are wearing aprons, and some of them are holding plants from the harvest. In the for...
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Farm Buildings

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Description: View across dirt road of farmyard. A man on the left stands with two horses in front of a barn. In the center there appears to be two women sitting in a b...
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Family with Horse-Drawn Plow

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Description: A woman and child are posing sitting on a plow steered by a man standing on their right. The two horses are standing on the left. In the background is a tr...
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Men Planting at the Lake Nursery

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Description: Five men are planting a field, probably planting trees at the Lake Nursery. Behind them is a man standing near a farm building among rows of plants. Anothe...
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Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: Men operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. The negative is double exposed and shows the outline of a photographer's wagon.
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Men with Wagon of Hay

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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...
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Farmers with Horses and Binder

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Description: Group of people, one woman and three men, standing and sitting behind a binder drawn by a team of two horses.
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Men and Binders in a Field

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Description: View across field towards a group of men standing near two or three horse-drawn binders. Two men are sitting on the binders, and a team of horses is on the...
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Men Posing with Tree Stumps

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Description: Four men posing with stumps they are pulling in an open field. In the background is a winch powered by two horses in the background. There are power lines ...
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Men Planting Seedlings

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Description: Man and a boy posing standing and holding white pine seedlings in a field. Four men are crouching in a row planting the seedlings in a field. In the backgr...
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Men Working in a Field

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Description: Ten men are working in a field. They are bending over and digging with shovels.
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Man with Carpentery Tools

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a man posing standing and holding wood-working tools on a shaded patch of ground in a field. Displayed around him is a trunk with more ...
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Binder and Threshing

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Description: View across field towards three men operating a binder and threshing machinery pulled by a team of four horses.
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Stump Pulling

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Description: View across field towards a group of four men standing with a stump-pulling rig. Three horses on the left are pulling the tree stump.
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Threshing in a Field

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Description: View across field towards a group of men working with threshing machinery.
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Two Men on a Tractor

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Description: View of two men posing standing on a tractor and wagon in a field.
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Group with a Horse-Drawn Thresher

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Description: Exterior portrait of a group of men and women posing standing near a thresher pulled by a team of four horses wearing fly nets.
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Threshing Scene

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Description: View towards a man posing sitting on threshing machinery pulled by a team of three horses in a field.

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