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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

Elephants Drinking from Wagon Pulled by McCormick-Deering Tractor

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: Elephants drinking water from a wagon pulled by a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor outside a circus tent belonging to the Sells-Floto Circus. Circus wo...
Photograph

Silage Cutting near Barn

Date: 1900
Description: View over fence of silage cutting operation near a barn on a small hill. Several men are working in the barnyard. A horse-drawn wagon stacked with silage i...
Photograph

Woodville Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Men hauling wagon loads of scrap metal with a Farmall H tractor, horses, and an automobile. The men are participating in a scrap drive, possibly during Gov...
Photograph

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.
Painting

Threshing

Date: 
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

Elephant vs. Tractor

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: An elephant appears to be in a tug of war contest with a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor. In the background is a large tent and a group of children wa...
Photograph

Farmstead

Date: 1920
Description: View of a barn, farmhouse, outbuilding and tractor on an International Harvester demonstration farm.
Photograph

Donald and DNR Barn — Alternate View

Date: 2004
Description: The Donald property is located on a very high hill. The old silo dates to 1911. The Department of Natural Resources owns and uses the old barn.
Photograph

Justman Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: The Justmans purchased the farm in 1976. They last milked cows in January 1998. They farm previously was in the possession of Ron's parents, Marvin and Van...
Photograph

Brotherton Lumberjacks

Date: 1925
Description: Chief Niles and other Brotherton men sawing logs.
Print

Farmall 806 Pedal Tractor

Date: 1964
Description: Two-page spread from an International Harvester toy catalog, featuring an illustration of a young boy and dog riding a "Farmall 806 riding tractor and trai...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 242-251

Date: 
Description: The world is flat; we get around
this stretched credulity
by going straight as an arrow
and meeting ourselves in a space of time
Photograph

Double Exposure: Farming Scene/House

Date: 
Description: A farming scene with two men standing on a tractor that is belt-driving a threshing machine in the background, and a woman and two children sitting on a ho...
Photograph

Loading Corn into Silo

Date: 
Description: View across barnyard towards men loading corn into a silo on a farm. The men are working on the right with horse-drawn wagons loaded with cornstalks. A tra...
Photograph

Two Boys with Horse-Drawn Wagon and Harvester Thresher

Date: 07 15 1925
Description: Two boys are sitting on a horse-drawn wagon in front of a tractor-drawn harvester thresher in a field.
Photograph

Industrial Tractor and Circus Elephant

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: View across grounds towards a man on a tractor on the right, and a man with an elephant on the left. The elephant is hitched to the back of the tractor wit...
Photograph

Threshing or Haying Operation

Date: 
Description: A large group of men, women and children are posing with threshing machinery, a steam engine and a horse-drawn wagon in front of a barn. Lantern slide.
Photograph

Ensilage Cutter

Date: 12 28 1928
Description: A group of men are using an ensilage cutter near a barn. A Farmall tractor in the foreground is belt driving the ensilage cutter. A young boy is sitting be...
Photograph

Ensilage Cutter

Date: 12 28 1928
Description: A group of men are using an ensilage cutter near a barn. A Farmall tractor on the left is belt driving the ensilage cutter. A young boy is sitting in the w...

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