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Harvester-Thresher Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) showing a tractor-drawn harvester-thresher in a field under the slogan: "Once Over ...
Photograph

N.C. Wyeth Depiction of McCormick Reaper Demonstration

Date: 1931
Description: Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh...
Photograph

Haying Operations

Date: 07 1945
Description: View from front of two men wearing hats standing atop a wagon piled with hay that is being pulled across a partially cut hay field by two horses.
Photograph

Men Harvesting Hay

Date: 1902
Description: Several men in a field harvesting hay with horses, mowers and wagons.
Photograph

Stone Quarry

Date: 1905
Description: Stone quarry, with men working near a wagon, and at the base of the hill. In the background is a steep hill with trees.
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Print

Hay Loading

Date: 1920
Description: A farmer uses a pitchfork to load hay onto a wagon pulled by a Cletrac crawler tractor. The caption reads: "Hay loading. The Cletrac needs no time out on t...
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

Plastering Straw Stacks with Clay

Date: 1927
Description: Algerian men are plastering a straw stack with clay. Another straw stack can be seen on the right. Hills are barely visible in the distance. An out-of-focu...
Photograph

Group of Men with Mowers and Rakes

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of men working in a field. A man in the center is wearing a suit and hat. Two men are using horse-drawn mowers, and anoth...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Landscape view down field towards a horse-drawn binder in a field with harvested grain. A man near the road is standing in a horse-drawn wagon on the left....
Photograph

Man in Field Using Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Left side view of a man using a horse-drawn mower in a field. A horse-drawn carriage is in the background on the right, and houses are in the far backgroun...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View of a man using a horse-drawn mower in a field. A man is standing near a horse-drawn buggy in front of the mower. Beyond the buggy on the left is a wag...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a man using a horse-drawn mower in a field. In the background on the left a wagon is parked in the field. In the far ...
Photograph

Landscape View of People and Farm

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards people posing standing. In the center is a binder, and on the right are men on a wagon. Down the hill in the background is a farm...
Photograph

Man on Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Man on horse-drawn binder in a partially harvested field. The horses are wearing fly-nets. A wagon is parked in the field on the far right. Behind him are ...
Photograph

Horse-Powered Push Binder Headers in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards men using a horse-powered push binder header. Farm buildings are in the background.
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

Racing the Storm

Date: 1976
Description: Farmers head for the barn with a load of hay bales as a storm looms overhead. A hay baler is hitched between the tractor and the wagon. Farm buildings are ...
Photograph

Men with Push Binder Header

Date: 1900
Description: Men posing with wagon, push binder header and water tank. Crew from Waggner's farm?

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