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Steam Tractor with Sod-breaking Plows

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Description: Two men are posing standing on a steam tractor on the right, probably a Linnell, attached to sod-breaking plows steered by two men on the left. Behind them...
Photograph

Donald and DNR Barn

Date: 2004
Description: Pam Donald and her children, Joey, Jimmy and Mary, live at N8914 N. Pole Road (Section 11).
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.
Postcard

Threshing Time on the Old Farm

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored postcard showing a farm crew with horses, a tractor, and other agricultural implements threshing grain crops in a field. Women in dresses pose...
Photograph

Harvesting a Field

Date: 10 17 1895
Description: Elevated view from hill of a large group of men harvesting a field. Four men are standing atop a mound of what appears to be straw or hay. A steam thresher...
Photograph

Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: Elevated view of men and boys operating a steam tractor used for belt-driven threshing machinery. Farm buildings are on the right, and one has a thatched r...
Photograph

Sawmill

Date: 1932
Description: A steam tractor provides power for a portable sawmill owned by Jake Karken. The large sawblade is still as men pose for the photographer. There is a team o...
Drawing

Threshing

Date: 1945
Description: A threshing scene in a field. One man pitches grain into a threshing machine while standing on the load of grain in the wagon pulled by two horses. A secon...
Photograph

Ruins of Tornado at Kruel Farm

Date: 06 17 1932
Description: View down hill of the aftermath of a tornado at a farm. There are two collapsed barns, and an intact silo, outbuildings and farmhouse. A horse is standing ...
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

Copy Photograph of Farm Crew Using Steam Tractor

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Description: Copy photograph of a farm crew using a steam tractor and separator. Haystacks are in the background.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering 10-20 Tractor at Work in New Zealand

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Description: McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor pulling a plow in New Zealand. Two men and a dog watch as the tractor ascends a hill.
Photograph

Driftless Farmyard

Date: 05 2014
Description: View up sloping edge of a farmyard. In the foreground is an open gate, a birdhouse on a post, and rock outcroppings. Along the fence in the background are ...
Photograph

Threshing Scene

Date: 1936
Description: A man is unloading bundles of grain from a horse-drawn wagon to another man (barely visible) who will feed the bundles into an Advance-Rumely threshing mac...
Photograph

Baling Operation with Hay Presses

Date: 11 18 1926
Description: View across field towards men working at a baling operation. On the right is a truck stacked with bales of hay. A man is standing near a hay press, which i...
Photograph

Farmall-Drawn Mower

Date: 10 05 1928
Description: View across golf course towards a man driving a Farmall tractor pulling a mower. In the background on a hill behind a fence, cows are grazing.

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