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Workers Pull Circus Wagon with Tractor

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: Workers pulling a Sells Floto Circus wagon with a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor along the street of a town. In the background, children and adults a...
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Hoover visits Coolidge

Date: 1925
Description: Herbert Hoover visits President Calvin Coolidge during Coolidge's summer retreat from the heat, crowds, and a White House renovation in Washington, D.C. Ca...
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Lower Brule Agency Water Pipe

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Description: Water gushes 18 feet in the air from a 6-inch pipe at the Lower Brule Agency. A man stands behind the pipe on the right.
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Lower Brule Agency Water Pipe

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Description: Water gushes 60 feet in the air from a 4-inch pipe at the Lower Brule Agency. Two men stand on the left near pumping machinery.
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Hemp on Vacant Lots

Date: 08 02 1917
Description: Superintendant Haney of International Harvester Company (left), Senator Beebe, Professor Holden, and J.W. Parmley stand in a hemp field sown on May 19, 191...
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Boy Operating Corn Binder

Date: 1902
Description: Three-quarter view from rear of a young boy operating a horse-drawn McCormick corn binder in a field on the Bachand farm. The boy may be Mike Bachand, or t...
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Grain Binders in Field

Date: 1902
Description: A group of farmers, including several young girls and boys, using two horse-drawn McCormick grain binders to harvest a crop.
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McMurchie Brothers in Cornfield

Date: 1935
Description: The McMurchie brothers working with a Farmall F-20(?) tractor, an International truck, and an ensilage cutter in a 250 acre cornfield on their 880 acre far...
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Loading Rail Car

Date: 1937
Description: Men load a rail car with crushed gravel or other material using rock crusher(?) on a trailer. The trailer has the text "sold by Dakota Equipment Company, S...
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10-20 Tractor with Sells-Floto Circus Wagon

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: A man pulls a circus wagon with a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor while two men watch near a tent. The circus is likely the Sells-Floto Circus.
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Man on top of Wagon

Date: 1918
Description: Man standing on top of bound stacks of what appears to be wood shingles or siding in a horse-drawn Weber wagon. Text stenciled on the wagon reads: "sold by...
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Preparation for Pit Silo

Date: 1915
Description: Three men working at a site for a new pit silo on an International Harvester demonstration farm.
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Men in Hemp Field

Date: 08 02 1917
Description: Six men, all wearing hats, stand in a field of hemp at Beebe Farm. The seventh man, Prof. Holden, sits on a horse behind the others.
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Alfalfa Campaign Crew Outside Residence

Date: 1915
Description: "Crew No. 2" of the Agricultural Extension's "Alfalfa Campaign" standing out in front of residential home with equipment, including rolled up lecture chart...
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McCormick-Deering Harvester Thresher

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of two men on a McCormick-Deering harvester-thresher (combine) with pickup attachment in a field. Decals and/or stencils are on the machine, ...
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Demonstration Farm Feed Lot

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated view of men standing near a herd of cattle at a feed lot at an International Harvester Company demonstration farm. A silo and several other farm b...
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Farmer Feeding Cattle

Date: 05 27 1916
Description: A farmer uses a wheelbarrow to place feed in a trough near a herd of cattle at an International Harvester demonstration farm.
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Men at Work on IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 1919
Description: Men are using a Titan 10-20 tractor and a large piece of farm machinery, probably a thresher, to harvest a field crop on an International Harvester demonst...
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Farmall Tractor with Binder

Date: 07 1930
Description: A man wearing suspenders and a hat is pulling a grain binder through a field of oats with a Farmall Regular tractor on an International Harvester demonstra...
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Road Construction

Date: 1924
Description: Two men use a 15-30(?) tractor and a grader on a dirt road. In the background are numerous oil derricks and industrial buildings.

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