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Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Corn Planters and Drills

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the Kentucky line of International Harvester corn planters and drills. Cover features an illustration of a farmer...
Postcard

Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back...
Photograph

Cutting Weeds

Date: 08 1929
Description: A man using a scythe to cut weeds from a pasture of wild carrots.
Poster

McCormick 10-20 and 15-30 Tractors Advertising Poster

Date: 1938
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick 10-20 and 15-30 tractors. The poster features a color illustration of each of the tractors, and photographs of men using t...
Photograph

Farmall M with Genius Tractor Plow

Date: 06 05 1944
Description: Paul F. Klassy uses a Farmall M tractor with a Number 15 Genius tractor plow to work in a field.
Photograph

Winnebago County Asylum Farm

Date: 1930
Description: View over fence of a man wearing a hat using a tilling tool in a garden presumably belonging to the Winnebago County Asylum farm.
Photograph

Children with Prize-Winning Chicks

Date: 05 1925
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...
Photograph

Woman and Children with Chicks

Date: 1922
Description: A woman is standing with two children in a poultry yard, feeding chicks and a hen from a coffee can. Several farm buildings are in the background.
Photograph

McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Side view of a man driving a team of horses to pull a McCormick grain binder through a field. In the far background are several large buildings.
Photograph

Mower in a Field

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man on a mower driving a team of two horses to work in a field. In the distance are a number of houses on the side of a large hill.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Deering Plow Catalog Cover

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for moldboard an disk plows for tractors or horses. Features a photographic illustration of a man plowing a field with a Fa...
Photograph

Men Transporting Produce

Date: 05 21 1926
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor to haul two wagons loaded with burlap bags of farm produce, possibly oranges. The tractor drives along a di...
Photograph

Orchard Sprayer

Date: 07 15 1929
Description: A man drives a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor through an orchard as another man stands on an orchard sprayer while applying what is probably pesticide ...
Photograph

Pesticide Application

Date: 05 17 1929
Description: A man drives an International tractor through an orchard while another man uses an orchard sprayer to apply what is probably pesticide to the trees.
Photograph

Man with Tractor and Brush Hog

Date: 11 12 1928
Description: A man stands beside a McCormick-Deering tractor outfitted with a "Brush Hog."
Photograph

North Vietnamese Collective

Date: 08 29 1967
Description: A group of people sit and stand outdoors with a group of baskets at a collective farm near Phat Diem, North Vietnam, visited by American journalist David S...
Photograph

Man Holding Dairy Cow

Date: 06 03 1929
Description: A man wearing a hat and overalls holding a dairy cow in front of a farmhouse. Trees, a barn with a silo, and other dairy cows are seen in the background. T...
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest and Inspection

Date: 1934
Description: View down dirt road of field hands working to harvest cranberries in a flooded cranberry marsh, while men inspect newly harvested and crated cranberries. I...
Photograph

International S-Series Truck on Job Site

Date: 10 01 1980
Description: An International S-Series truck with a trailer on a dirt road in front of a newly-constructed silo and several barns and farm buildings.
Photograph

Harvesting Tomatoes in Rio Grande Valley

Date: 1970
Description: Migrant farm workers harvesting tomatoes in the Rio Grande Valley.

Obreros Unidos (United Workers) grew in Wisconsin during the 1960s and had deep roots ...

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