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Workers Pull Circus Wagon with Tractor

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: Workers pulling a Sells Floto Circus wagon with a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor along the street of a town. In the background, children and adults a...
Photograph

Farmall Tractor Parade

Date: 1941
Description: Farmall H and M tractors driven in a parade through a downtown street. The tractors are driven by two women and two men. One of the men has a small child o...
Photograph

"Tracto" the "Talking" Robot

Date: 07 27 1960
Description: Front and rear view of "Tracto," a robot made of tractor parts for International Harvester's exhibits at state fairs. The front view features a young boy i...
Photograph

"Tracto" the "Talking" Robot Holding Child

Date: 07 27 1960
Description: A young girl eating a lollipop is perched in the crook of the arm of "Tracto," a robot made of tractor parts. Tracto was part of International Harvester ex...
Photograph

Girl with "Tracto" the "Talking" Robot

Date: 07 27 1960
Description: A young girl with a lollipop looks up at "Tracto," a robot made of tractor parts for International Harvester's exhibits at state fairs. From the original...
Photograph

Two Young Boys with Farm Scrap Pile

Date: 1942
Description: Two young boys in a pile of metal collected from a scrap drive in front of the Farmers Mercantile Company, an International Harvester dealership. A man sta...
Print

Waterloo Boy Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of a booklet produced by the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company to advertise the Waterloo Boy one-man tractor. The Waterloo Gasoline Engine Compa...
Print

Waterloo Boy Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Outer flap of an envelope mailer produced by the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company to advertise the Waterloo kerosene tractor. It features an illustration o...
Book or Pamphlet

Moline Universal Tractor Pamphlet

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising Moline Universal tractors, featuring a photograph of men and children in a farm field, probably watching an equipment...
Print

Farm Your Farm

Date: 1915
Description: Advertisement for the Peoria tractor featuring two photographs of men plowing in a field with tractors, along with the headline "Farm Your Farm. The Tracto...
Print

Auto-Tiller Advertisement

Date: 1918
Description: Internal page of a pamphlet advertising the World Harvester Corporation auto-tiller. The photograph at top depicts "a seven-year-old boy guiding the AUTO-T...
Print

Tractor Uses

Date: 1925
Description: Advertisement for the La Crosse kerosene tractor featuring photographs of the tractor in use on farm jobs. The headline reads: "The HAPPY FARMER Really Bur...
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

Group of Men Posing Outdoors with Farmall Tractors

Date: 08 10 1929
Description: View down dirt road towards a group of men standing among Farmall and McCormick-Deering tractors in front of the J.W. Graham storefront. There is a boy sit...

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