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Men Harvesting Hemp with Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1943
Description: Elevated view of two men harvesting hemp using a McCormick Farmall H tractor and hemp binder No.2. In the background are houses among trees.
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of Christopher Columbus and hi...
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Machine Company Catalog

Date: 1869
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for Champion reaping and mowing machines manufactured by the Champion Machine Company. The cover features a color illustra...
Photograph

Man Standing with Corn Shocks

Date: 1915
Description: Farmer standing outdoors among corn shocks. He is holding a small dog in his arms, and is wearing work gloves and a hat.
Photograph

Prisoner of War Working in Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1945
Description: German Prisoner of War stationed in Wisconsin Rapids working on the A.E. Bennett and Sons Cranberry Marsh. He is spraying the cranberry crop with either an...
Photograph

Harvesting Cranberries Contained by Booms

Date: 1997
Description: Harvesters wade through cranberries contained by booms in the cranberry marsh as they travel on a conveyor belt into the waiting trucks.
Photograph

Men Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1997
Description: Elevated view of harvesters wading through cranberries contained by booms to feed them onto a conveyor to be loaded into the waiting trucks.
Photograph

Man Pulling Boom

Date: 1997
Description: A man wearing waders walks knee-deep through water and floating cranberries as he pulls a boom used for confining the cranberries so they can be harvested.
Photograph

Beekeepers and Hives

Date: 1919
Description: Hand-colored photographic print. Two beekeepers, one standing, one crouching near hives in an apiary. "Herman Roebel's Apiary 1919" written on back of prin...
Photograph

Swarm of Bees on Fence Post with Frank Buhl

Date: 06 1921
Description: Frank Buhl is standing next to a swarm of bees on a fence post and barbed wire. A beehive is directly beneath the swarm. Buhl, who is wearing suspenders, i...
Painting

Trabajando en el Campo (Working in the Fields)

Date: 1998
Description: This scene was painted by Seferina Contreras Klinger from memories of her grandmother, Aurelia M. Contreras, and her uncle, Fidel Contreras, who worked pic...
Photograph

Man with McCormick Combine 64

Date: 
Description: View looking down at a man, wearing safety glasses, sitting on the edge of a wagon holding a shovel. Behind him a McCormick combine 64 is emptying grain in...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Corn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Left side view of a man using a horse-drawn corn binder in a field. Another man wearing a hat, vest and sleeve protectors is running alongside the binder.
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Corn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Left side view across rows of harvested corn towards a man using a horse-drawn corn binder in a field. A man wearing a hat, vest, sleeve protectors and a n...
Photograph

Woman Driving Farmall Tractor in Field

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a woman driving a Farmall tractor in a field. In the background are farm buildings among trees. W.B. Burkett.
Photograph

Man Operating a Farmall A Tractor

Date: 1941
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a man driving a Farmall A tractor and rotary hoe working in a field of strawberry plants at the Stohlen nursery farm...
Photograph

Alfred Lawson in Flight Suit

Date: 1917
Description: Full-length portrait of Alfred Lawson standing in a field in leather flight gear. This is around the time the Lawson Aircraft Company built the Military Tr...
Photograph

Two Men with Farmall Tractor

Date: 07 24 1929
Description: A man wearing gloves is sitting in a bean field on a Farmall tractor. He is talking to a man standing nearby who is holding a pipe in his left hand. There ...
Photograph

Spring-Time Project

Date: 04 11 1985
Description: Five men are working on a highway, placing tar and covering it with tissue. A line of cars are passing in the opposite lane. A field and farm buildings are...

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