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Women and Children in Field with Walking Plow

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: Two women and two young girls in a field with an ox-driven walking plow. Original caption reads: "This picture was not taken in Egypt nor India nor Africa ...
Photograph

Man Operating Oliver No. 1 Gang Plow

Date: 1911
Description: Man operating an Oliver no. 1 horse-drawn gang plow as another man and a boy look on. The plow was produced from 1911 to 1916 by the Oliver Chilled Plow Co...
Photograph

Actors on McCormick-Deering Tractor

Date: 08 16 1929
Description: Man and a young girl plowing a field with a McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor in the Fox Film production "Our Daily Bread".
Photograph

Women and Children Watch Men Work in Field

Date: 
Description: Children, men with hats, and women with parasols, are watching men work in a field with a horse-drawn plow and other agricultural equipment. A house is in...
Photograph

20 H.P. Type B Tractor Used on the Curtis Farm

Date: 1912
Description: An International 20 H.P. Type B Tractor owned by J.S. Curtis, but operated by G.W. Crosby. According to the original caption, Crosby operated the outfit wi...
Photograph

Three Generations of Plows

Date: 09 16 1936
Description: Three generations of De Haan men display types of plows which have been passed down within their family.
Photograph

Boy Sitting on Chattanooga Plow

Date: 1924
Description: A boy is sitting on a Chattanooga plow pulled by horses, and perhaps a donkey, in a field. Another boy is on the right in the background.
Photograph

Farmall H with Lug Wheels

Date: 1941
Description: John Hanna uses a Farmall H with lug wheels and a Little Genius 2-14 bottom plow to work in a field while a boy looks on from the left.
Photograph

Plowing Around Stumps

Date: 02 24 1915
Description: Left side view of Earle Morris using a walking plow pulled by a mule in a field pitted with tree stumps.
Photograph

Boy with Mule and Plow

Date: 1915
Description: Three-quarter rear view from right of a boy with a mule and walking plow near a tree stump in a field.
Photograph

Man and Child in Farm Field

Date: 1913
Description: A man uses a walking plow led by a team of two horses to work in a farm field while a child watches from behind.
Postcard

American Homestead Life Postcard

Date: 1910
Description: Color postcard decorated on the border with autumn-colored leaves and an American flag crest on the top, center, and a banner which reads, "American Homest...
Print

Farm Your Farm

Date: 1915
Description: Advertisement for the Peoria tractor featuring two photographs of men plowing in a field with tractors, along with the headline "Farm Your Farm. The Tracto...
Photograph

Family with Horse-Drawn Plow

Date: 
Description: A woman and child are posing sitting on a plow steered by a man standing on their right. The two horses are standing on the left. In the background is a tr...
Photograph

Peasant Plowing with Horse

Date: 1918
Description: A peasant farmer plowing a field with the plow harnessed to a horse. The farmer's daughter is wearing a light-colored patterned dress and stands on the lef...
Poster

Crimean War Themed Advertising Broadside

Date: 05 1854
Description: This yellow and black wood block print broadside ties England and France's declaration of war against Russia during the Crimean War into a war against high...
Poster

Comité Americain pour les Régions Dévastées de France

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a mother, two children, and a grandfather. A woman in white is leading the woman. In the background is a large American flag...
Photograph

Horses Pulling Plow

Date: 1953
Description: View from front towards two horses pulling a plow in a field being driven by a boy. On the right an older man is walking beside the team, and in the backgr...
Photograph

Man and Boy with Horse-Drawn Walking Plow

Date: 
Description: Seth Shepard and Willie Bletle with a horse-drawn walking plow in a field. Hand-tinted lantern slide.

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