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Behrend Veerhusen's Farm

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Description: Stone barn with scalloped edging with people in wagons and house in background, picket fencing; in sec. 26, SE1/4. Biography in Biographical Review of Dane...
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Loading Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
Description: Worker loads sisal leaves onto a small train car at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Loading leaves on the train car...
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Loading Sisal Fiber

Date: 01 22 1910
Description: Men use donkeys to pull carts loaded with sisal fiber along railroad tracks on a wharf at Progreso, Yucatan. The fiber is being loaded onto or off of steam...
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Men Harvesting with a Vertical Stationary Engine

Date: 1911
Description: A man on the right is standing and leaning against a large cart which contains a vertical stationary engine. Three men on the left are working in the backg...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Binders in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view across section of harvested field towards two men using horse-drawn McCormick binders in a field. On the far left is a man in a hors...
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Large Harvesting Operation in a Field

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a group of people engaged in a large harvesting operation. In the foreground on the right is a horse-drawn binder. A number of th...
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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...
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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.
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Harvesting Operation

Date: 1915
Description: View across field towards men with a thresher. On the left is a horse-drawn buggy. A few men are standing on a pile of sacks of grain near the thresher, an...

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