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Kruegers Husking Corn

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Description: August, Mary, Tina, Saraphina, Jennie and Edgar Krueger husking corn.
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Men Creating Shock of Corn

Date: 10 1906
Description: Two men gathering corn into a large corn shock on a farm.
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Farmer Picking Corn by Hand

Date: 1911
Description: A farmer wearing a straw hat and smoking a pipe examining or picking corn. Behind him is a team of horses pulling a wagon.
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Farmer with Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Side view of a man driving two horses to pull a McCormick corn binder through a field. Several farm buildings are in the background.
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Group in Wagon in Field of Corn

Date: 1900
Description: A group of men and women are sitting in a horse-drawn wagon in a field of corn, while another man is standing near the wagon's front wheel.
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Men Shaking Hands over Contract

Date: 04 1913
Description: Professor Perry Holden and Governor Luther Egbert Hall shake hands over a contract to grow 100,000,000 bushels of corn in Louisiana in 1913. A group of men...
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Agricultural Lecture

Date: 1919
Description: View from back of room of man standing at the front of a classroom to deliver an agricultural lecture to a group of seated men and women. There are bundles...
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Men Gathered Over Corn Testing

Date: 1913
Description: Four men gathered over agriculture work. Original caption reads: "Assistant County Superintendent Calley explaining corn testing work to the school directo...
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Group of Men and Boys Harvesting Corn

Date: 1900
Description: View down corn rows of field of a large group of men and boys harvesting corn stalks. Several men are filling a wagon. Behind them is a man operating a cor...
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Flint Corn

Date: 09 05 1895
Description: A man is driving a McCormick harvester with a team of horses, cutting and binding a crop of flint ("Indian") corn, on the farm of S.D.D. Newton, five miles...
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Ripe Pumpkin Field

Date: 09 27 1895
Description: In the cornfield of Jas. E. Seed, a number of large, yellow "Yankee" pumpkins ripen on vines. A man is crouched in the field, holding a pumpkin in his arms...
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Cabbage, Tobacco Plants, and Sweet Corn

Date: 09 27 1895
Description: A plot of land in front of a row of houses features cabbage in the foreground, ripe, four-foot tall Havana seed leaf tobacco plants in the center, and swee...
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Husking Corn

Date: 10 1899
Description: A view of men and women husking corn in the field behind a farmhouse. Sitting from left to right are: August Prahl, August Krueger, Sarah Krueger, William...
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Corn Crops in Taylor County

Date: 1895
Description: The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional cards showing the plentiful corn crops of John Carstens, created to attract farmers to the agricultural ...
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Man Standing in Cornfield

Date: 1895
Description: A man, wearing a suit and a hat, standing in a cornfield.
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Group Portrait of Children and Adults near Cornfield

Date: 1895
Description: Large group of farm adults and children, probably of German extraction, of one or more families, gathered under fruit trees at the edge of a cornfield, pre...
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Janesville Machine Co. Catalog

Date: 1897
Description: Back cover of catalog with red background, text and decorative frames in gold ink, and an illustration in black ink of a man riding a Janesville Rotary Dis...
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Husking Corn

Date: 1904
Description: Jennie and Edgar Krueger are sitting atop a pile of husked corn in a cleared field, while Alexander Krueger is holding a pail full of husked corn behind th...
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Four Generations Husking Corn

Date: 1903
Description: Alexander, Edgar, August, and William Krueger husking corn in a cleared corn field. Each of them is holding an ear of corn, and a pile of husked corn is si...
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Tending the Cattle During Winter

Date: 1906
Description: August, Edgar, and Alexander Krueger feeding cornstalks to the cattle during the winter. The cattle are lined up along the fence eating from troughs. Augus...

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