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Poster

Gasoline Engine

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster of an International gasoline engine serving many functions, with an address for Budapest, Hungary. The poster was printed by the H...
Photograph

Woman Nursing Lambs with Bottles

Date: 1946
Description: Mrs. Floyd French of Newton, Iowa feeds two orphaned lambs using beer or soda bottles. A Farmall tractor is in the background. According to the original ca...
Photograph

Mogul 45 Tractors with Oliver Plows

Date: 1910
Description: A long row of Oliver Plows hitched to three Mogul 45 tractors. A two-pony cart and driver are parked in front of the plows.
Photograph

Husker and Shredder in Field

Date: 1915
Description: Two men loading corn stalks into a husker-shredder from a horse-drawn wagon in a snow-covered field. A building with windows near a sloped roof is behind ...
Photograph

Husker and Shredder Crew at Barn

Date: 1913
Description: Men working with wagons and husker-shredder near a barn. The husker-shredder is powered by a Titan 18-35 tractor. A dog is walking by a fence, and milk can...
Photograph

Crew with Husker and Shredder

Date: 1915
Description: Six men are standing by a husker-shredder, wagon, and two horses in a farm yard. A tractor, possibly a Mogul 8-16 is on the right. Barns and farm buildings...
Photograph

Charles Miller and Son with Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: Charles Miller sitting on a McCormick-Deering Farmall H tractor and looking over his shoulder towards his son who is standing near a barn. A horse is looki...
Photograph

Charles Miller Farm

Date: 1945
Description: Charles Miller sitting on a McCormick-Deering Farmall H tractor while Gus Setser is standing behind him and James Miller is sitting on a fence. A horse is ...
Photograph

Tractor Shipment at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1912
Description: Elevated view of tractors awaiting shipment parked in a grassy lot at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory. There are houses and commercial bu...
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...
Painting

Steam Power

Date: 
Description: A harvest scene in which an old-fashioned steam-powered tractor is hooked up to a threshing machine. There is a pile of coal next to the tractor and a tank...
Painting

Corn Shredding

Date: 
Description: Two farm workers in the righthand foreground toss a corn bundle up to the horse-drawn corn shredding machine to be shredded. To the left, a man loads feed ...
Photograph

Mogul Tractor along Dirt Road

Date: 1912
Description: Large Mogul tractor pulling a grader along a dirt road. Two men ride in the tractor, while three others supervise from behind the tractor.
Photograph

Kentucky Grain Drill

Date: 1915
Description: Rear view of man operating a Kentucky grain drill with a team of two horses. A decal with the "Kentucky" name is on the back of the drill.
Photograph

Scherr Tractor

Date: 2004
Description: The Scherr family pose with this old farm tractor, which is still in use.
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

J.C. Witmer Farm

Date: 07 13 1925
Description: A group of men use a tractor and horse-drawn manure spreaders in a barnyard on the farm of J.C. Witmer. The tractor appears to have a "Lessman" loader.
Photograph

Barn Painting

Date: 09 25 1980
Description: Pastoral panoramic painting on the side of a barn. Two people on scaffolding can be seen working on the mural at right. A silo juts above the barn. There i...
Book or Pamphlet

Samson Tractor Brochure

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by Samson Tractor Company, a division of General Motors Corporation, to advertise the Samson "Iron Horse." The cover fea...
Book or Pamphlet

Lauson Tractor Usages

Date: 1925
Description: Inside pages of a pamphlet advertising the Lauson tractor, depicting six usages of the equipment on a farm: plowing, silo filling, discing, corn shelling, ...

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