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La Crosse Tractor Plowing on Hilly Field

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Description: Man driving a La Crosse Happy Farmer tractor plowing in field up a hill with several men in long coats, suits, and hats watching nearby.
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La Crosse Happy Farmer Tractor

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Description: Front three-quarter view of a man driving a La Crosse Happy Farmer tractor in a field plowing. Several men in long coats, suits, and hats are standing on e...
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Group of Men Watching Man Plow with Mogul 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1916
Description: Group of men watching as a man plows with a Mogul 8-16 tractor. Women and children stand on the left in the background. The event may be a demonstration.
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Tractor Powered Silo Filler

Date: 1915
Description: Two men wearing long overcoats and hats are standing directly behind a large tractor or stationary engine being used to power a belt-driven ensilage cutter...
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Lichtenberg Barn

Date: 2004
Description: This barn, at 1915 Hwy 28, is owned by Roy and Sandy Lichtenberg. The last time cows were milked here was in 1988.
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Men with Cub Cadets

Date: 06 1961
Description: Elevated view of men, possibly dealers or buyers, sitting on International Harvester Cub Cadet lawn tractors in four rows. The machines were manufactured a...
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Men with Cub Cadets

Date: 1961
Description: Elevated view of men, possibly dealers or buyers, sitting on and gathered near International Harvester Cub Cadet lawn tractors. The machines were manufactu...
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Cranberry Growers

Date: 10 1984
Description: Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries.
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Raking Cranberries

Date: 1980
Description: Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh. In the background is a truck and a tractor.
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A Complete New Line for Industrial Power Users

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for International Harvester Industrial Power, featuring a color illustration of a man operating an International TracTracT...
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Rock Island CTX Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Interior spread of a pamphlet advertising the Rock Island "CTX" tractor plow. The advertisement features an illustration of a male farmer using a Heider tr...
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Tractor Tilling Newsletter

Date: 07 1917
Description: Cover of the Volume 1, Number 2 issue of Tractor Tilling newsletter, produced by the Smith Form-a-Tractor Company. The cover features a photograph o...
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People Posing Around Farm Machinery

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Description: People posing in field, with a barn in the background among trees. In the center a man, three women and a boy are standing in front of a wire fence. Behind...
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Trackpull Crawler Equipment

Date: 05 1926
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet for Trackpull crawler equipment for the Fordson tractor. The cover features a man using the Fordson tractor to pull a...
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10-20 Tractor, New Zealand

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Description: Left side profile view of a man smoking a pipe while driving an International 10-20 tractor, without a engine cover, up a small hill in New Zealand. The tr...
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Farmall H Pulling a Seaman Tiller in a Field of Muckland

Date: 1946
Description: Three-quarter rear view from left side of a man driving a Farmall H pulling a Seaman tiller on the big Zellwood Farms.
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Man with Experimental Farmall Cub Pulling Disk-Harrow

Date: 1948
Description: View across field towards a man using an experimental Farmall Cub pulling a four-foot tandem disk-harrow on a farm.
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Man Driving Farmall A Tractor with Mounted Planter Fertilizer

Date: 1947
Description: Right side view of man driving a Farmall A tractor with mounted planter fertilizer in a field.
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Woman Driving Tractor

Date: 04 09 1917
Description: Miss Josephine Huddleston seated on the big IHC tractor at the plowing of the first tract of land at Harrison and Jefferson Streets for Chicago's City Gard...
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Man on Tractor Pulling Disk Harrow

Date: 10 31 1917
Description: Left side profile view of a man driving a tractor pulling a disk harrow in a field. In the background is a silo, barn, windmill and farmhouse.

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