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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company, featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a young boy and girl playing along ... |
| Date: | 10 27 1936 |
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| Description: | Farmer Sam Tanaka posing with his son on a Farmall F-12 tractor in a cauliflower field. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Two men sit in a two-wheeled buggy hooked up to zebras, next to a fence near the Ring Barn on the left (which is still standing), with several male spectat... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | In 1845, Ole Wettlesen and his wife Thorbjor and family left Laardal, Telemark, Norway, for America, eventually settling in Dane County. There, Ole establi... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Farmers using a husker-shredder(?) powered by an engine. A man and two children look on from the doorway of a barn. Another man is standing on a horse-draw... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man is using what appears to be a mower drawn by two horses to work in a field. Farm buildings and other workers are in the background, as well as child... |
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| Description: | Cartoon drawn by Clare V. "Dwig" Dwiggins depicting a youthful August Derleth walking by a graveyard that is haunted by ghosts and spirits. Derleth was fo... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View towards a man wearing a banded hat operating a horse-drawn mower in a field. In the background there is a boy standing near a man in a horse-drawn car... |
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| Description: | Many ranch hands posing in, and in front of, a barn, with a buffalo tied up on the ground. A woman and many children the second floor of the barn are looki... |
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| Description: | View over fence and lawn toward the Unity House. Four women are sitting in the covered walkway that leads to the covered, wraparound veranda. There are tr... |
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| Description: | View down driveway toward the house. Along the right is a vine-covered fence. People are standing in the driveway, and women are sitting in chairs on the c... |
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| Description: | View across lawn toward the side of the Cottage and its corner tower. Part of the covered walkway is on the right. Women, men, and children are walking the... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Clifford Anderson sits in a barnyard among his flock of white Leghorn chickens. |
| Date: | 05 1925 |
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| Description: | Two children of Vernon Shurs sit and stand near four poultry houses and multiple prize-winning Rhode Island Red chicks. The girl, squatting and wearing a d... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children picking cotton in a field. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A man uses a walking plow led by a team of two horses to work in a farm field while a child watches from behind. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from a distance of three farmers, and perhaps a child, using horse-drawn McCormick grain binders in a field. Farm buildings are in the middle distance... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two men are leading horses in pulling McCormick Big 4 mowers near a brick farmhouse. A girl wearing a dress and hat is sitting on a horse in the foreground... |
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