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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two workers loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a tram car on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The sisal or hennequen was used by the McCormick Company and... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Several farmers and farm laborers, including a handful of children, at work harvesting grain with a McCormick grain binder in a field. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two Ho-Chunk men wearing beaded shirts are gathering cranberries (hoocake) alongside a Ho-Chunk woman and a white man and woman. A large group of cranberry... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Farm scene including a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder, people, a farmhouse, and a barn. |
| Date: | 07 15 1908 |
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| Description: | Farmer operating a horse-drawn Osborne side delivery hay rake in the field. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A farmer operating a horse-drawn self-rake reaper while children are following close by. |
| Date: | 01 15 1908 |
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| Description: | Three men in a field use a horse-powered hay press. Two carriages are on the the left. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The manufacture of bricks was begun on this spot sometime in the latter 1860's by Henry Bretag, a German brickmaker, the father of Mrs. Englehardt. Brick ... |
| Date: | 12 20 1907 |
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| Description: | Men are working with horses, a threshing machine, a push binder(?) and stationary engine in a field. A group of men and women with a horse-drawn buggy are ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A farmer is operating what may be a McCormick open elevator (?) binder pulled by two horses in a field of grain on a gently sloping hillside. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man operates a horse-drawn self-rake reaper in a field while another follows behind with a rake. A girl approaches from the side with a jug in her hand. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two men harvesting rye in a field with a horse-drawn grain binder. The men are working on the Vogel farm. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Side view of three men using a McCormick marsh-type hand-binding harvester in a field. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Charles F. Nitz is operating a McCormick grain binder, drawn by three horses through a field. The original caption reads: "The oldest self binder in Cuming... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A large group of Ho-Chunks and white people harvesting cranberries. The wooden boxes lying in the field were filled with the fruit and then shipped by rail... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Bearded man operating a reaper drawn by two brown horses. The reaper appears to be an early model or may be a replica of the first reaping machine. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two men posing in a field near a McCormick grain binder drawn by two mules. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Man harvesting grain with hand cradle in a field. There are many haystacks in the field in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man wearing a banded hat and riding a mower drawn by two horses. The man is lifting the sickle bar on the mower to avoid a tree stump. A roa... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three people posing with a horse-drawn grain binder in a field. A young man on the left is sitting on the binder, and on the right a boy is on one of the h... |
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