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Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1915
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the Kentucky line of International Harvester grain drills. Cover features a color illustration of a farmer in a f...
Book or Pamphlet

Russian Champion Catalog Cover

Date: 1912
Description: Cover of a Champion farm equipment catalog written in Russian, with a color illustration of a farmer using a horse-drawn grain binder in a field. A windmil...
Photograph

Mogul Jr. Tractor with Grain Binders

Date: 1912
Description: Men operate three McCormick grain binders and a Mogul Jr. tractor.
Photograph

Grain Binder on a Hill

Date: 1915
Description: A farmer uses a McCormick grain binder on a hillside with a windmill in the background.
Photograph

Hoisting Machine Loading Pilings on Barge at Prairie du Sac Dam Site

Date: 03 1911
Description: Workers use a rail car mounted crane to load pilings onto a barge. Bluffs are in the distance.
Photograph

Powered Elevator with Silo

Date: 1916
Description: A farmer with a team of two horses working with an elevator or silo filler near farm buildings and a silo. A Titan stationary engine is powering the elevat...
Photograph

Farm Scene with Corn Binder

Date: 1910
Description: A man using a team of horses to pull a Deering(?) corn binder across a barnyard. Another man, cows, a windmill, and farm buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Irrigation Ditch

Date: 1917
Description: Irrigation ditch with a silo and farm buildings in the background. Original caption reads: "Union Pacific Silo Special Trip; irrigation ditch, Mrs. Carolin...
Book or Pamphlet

Allis-Chalmers General Purpose Farm Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising: "A Real General Purpose Farm Tractor." The illustration shows a man using a tractor to work in a farm field with bar...
Photograph

Depot and Yards

Date: 1911
Description: A view of the depot and yards. A windmill and water tower in the distance. Carts with sacks of flour and milk cans next to the depot. Signs for Western Uni...
Photograph

Man on Tractor Pulling Disk Harrow

Date: 10 31 1917
Description: Left side profile view of a man driving a tractor pulling a disk harrow in a field. In the background is a silo, barn, windmill and farmhouse.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Cultipackers

Date: 06 10 1915
Description: View from front of a team of two horses pulling a man on a cultipacker in a field. There are buildings in the background on the left and right, and on the ...
Postcard

A.G. Peterson's Blacksmith Shop

Date: 09 02 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "A.G. Peterson's Blacksmith Shop, Sheridan, Wis." Workers, horses, buggies and wagons are in front of a brick blacksmith's shop. The s...

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