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International Harvester Postcard — Algiers

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard of a harvesting scene in Algiers. Includes a color illustration of a horse-drawn grain binder. Caption reads: "Algiers — In this far off country o...
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Farmers Servicing Farmall Tractor

Date: 09 20 1935
Description: Men refueling and lubricating a Farmall tractor at a small service station on the farm of Tom Lanerty as a boy is looking on.
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Livestock Exposition Judging

Date: 1959
Description: Slightly elevated view of one competitor parading her animal for the judges at the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition, while Alice in Dairylan...
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Farmhands Working with Cane

Date: 11 24 1915
Description: A group of farmhands, including young boys, stripping the fodder from the cane before it is taken to the press where the sap is extracted.
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Future Farmers of America

Date: 10 1946
Description: Group portrait of members of Future Farmers of America, taken for Wisconsin State Department of Agriculture.
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Horse-Drawn Hay Rake

Date: 07 20 1921
Description: Man operating a horse-drawn hay rake. Two boys and a man in the background are piling the cut hay.
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Individuals Working on a Farm

Date: 08 26 1917
Description: Barn, silos and cows at a farm. There are men attending to the cows, while the women and children are attending to the milk cans.
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Boy Driving Weber Wagon

Date: 1930
Description: A young boy leading two mules in pulling a Weber wagon full of corn.
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Butch Quirk uses Cub Cadet as Desk Top

Date: 04 1964
Description: Butch Quirk with a Cub Cadet tractor. Original magazine caption states: "Scientific farmer Quirk uses tractor hood as desk top as he records variety of cor...
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Butch Quirk Fills the Hopper

Date: 04 1964
Description: Thirteen-year-old John "Butch" Quick is photographed filling the hopper of his Cub Cadet tractor with fertilizer.
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Children Riding Mules on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: Four young boys ride mules in a field on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Agricultural laborers are in the background. Original caption...
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Youth Detasseling Corn

Date: 08 03 1949
Description: From left to right: Carole Ballinger, Joyce Anderson, and Nancy Toepfer detassel corn as part of their summer jobs.
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Men and Boy Loading Hay onto DR-70 Truck

Date: 1938
Description: Two men and a boy load bales of hay from the bed of an International DR-70 truck into a barn. The original caption reads: "A DR-70 170-inch wheelbase truck...
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Wisconsin Future Farmers of America

Date: 02 21 1950
Description: Group portrait of officers and advisory council members of the Wisconsin Future Farmers of America Council at Green Lake for a planning meeting.
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Man Posing near Young Boy on Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Young boy on a horse-drawn mower in a field. A man is standing nearby.
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Man Driving Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: View across cutover land of a man or young boy driving a horse-drawn mower. There is a tall tree trunk behind the horses. Another man or young boy is stand...
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Group of Young Men Working in Cutover Land

Date: 1900
Description: Group of young men working in cutover land. One of the men is driving a horse-drawn mower. Many stumps are in the open field, and trees are in the backgrou...
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Man and Boy on Manure Spreader in Field

Date: 1911
Description: Man and boy (possibly father and son) on farmland near a cornfield operating a horse-drawn No. 3 Clover Leaf manure spreader. A barn is in the background.
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Corn Cultivation

Date: 1947
Description: Yound Richard Quinney operating a tractor to cultivate corn.
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Men Baling Hay with IHC Press

Date: 1913
Description: Men and a young boy bale hay from a large haystack using an IHC hay press. On the left is a stack of finished hay bales.

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