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Farmer on McCormick-Deering Farmall H Tractor with Plow

Date: 1941
Description: Wayne Pattison working the fields of his two-hundred and eighty acre farm with a Farmall H tractor and a McCormick-Deering No. 7 disc plow. In the backgrou...
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Tractor Running Belt-Driven Thresher

Date: 1914
Description: International Harvester tractor (likely a friction drive) running a belt-driven husker-shredder in the snow-covered yard of a farm.
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Weather Radar

Date: 1950
Description: Meteorologists using radar equipment outdoors.
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Farmall M Tractor and Disc Harrow

Date: 1949
Description: Color photograph of a farmer with a straw hat working a field using a Farmall M tractor with disc harrow against a bright blue sky strewn with fluffy white...
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Factory Worker Standing Among Wooden Barrels

Date: 04 03 1919
Description: Factory worker in soiled clothing standing among wooden barrels in a snow-covered factory yard. The man most likely worked at International Harvester's Osb...
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Experimental Combine Harvesting Grain

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view of men harvesting grain with a McCormick-Deering 12 foot experimental combine (harvester-thresher) pulled by a Farmall M tractor. There is a ...
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Tractor-Truck Unloading Paper

Date: 01 19 1939
Description: Men with tractor-truck unloading large rolls of paper at the Wisconsin State Journal, 115 South Carroll Street. Grace Episcopal Church, 110 W. Washington, ...
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Cook with Ice Sculpture

Date: 04 07 1933
Description: Ottoman Parrhysius, cold meat cook at the Loraine Hotel, posing with a parrot ice sculpture that he created.
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McCormick Farmall Tractor H and Grain Drill

Date: 1950
Description: Farmers are unloading bags of seed from the back of an International L-series pickup truck in a field. A McCormick Farmall H tractor with attached grain dr...
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McCormick Farmall H Tractor with Mounted Cultivator

Date: 1948
Description: View towards a man in a field on a Farmall H tractor with a mounted cultivator, either at or near the company's experimental farm in Hinsdale.
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McCormick Farmall C Tractor with Front-Mounted Cultivator

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man in a field operating a McCormick Farmall C tractor with front-mounted cultivator against a bright blue sky strewn with fluffy white clou...
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Farmall 450 Diesel Tractor

Date: 1957
Description: View of a man plowing a field with a McCormick Farmall 450 diesel tractor. Mountains are in the far background.
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220 Cotton Picker

Date: 1956
Description: Man harvesting cotton with a McCormick 220 cotton picker.
Book or Pamphlet

Chattanooga Plow Company Catalog

Date: 1918
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Chattanooga Plow Company of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Includes an illustration of a man with a horse-drawn walking pl...
Book or Pamphlet

Cotton King Disk Harrow Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Cotton King disk harrows sold by International Harvester. Features an illustration of a view framed by trees and a fenc...
Photograph

Hough HE Payloader Loading Snow into Truck

Date: 1950
Description: Hough HE Payloader loading snow into a truck. The HE was built by Frank G. Hough Company, a Libertyville, Illinois, manufacturer of construction equipment.
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Ice Harvesting

Date: 1910
Description: Poling ice blocks to the hoist on the Milwaukee River.
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Edgewood Fence Removal

Date: 01 19 1945
Description: Edgewood fence along Wingra Drive entrance, which had been opened to the public after closing by the Dominican Sisters of Edgewood Academy. Shown is the ro...
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Man Harvests Corn on Windy Day

Date: 10 12 1927
Description: A man picking ears of corn and tossing them into a horse-drawn McCormick-Deering farm wagon on a very windy day.
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Two Men Pick Corn in Winter

Date: 01 30 1934
Description: While snow is on the ground, two men are picking ears of corn and tossing them into a farm wagon.

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