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Farmer in Overalls Posing with IH Part

Date: 01 03 1928
Description: Advertising photograph of a man in overalls and hat pointing to an International Harvester part. The photograph was taken in a studio and used in company ...
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Removing Layers from Manila Plant

Date: 1910
Description: A boy removing layers from a manila plant in the Philippine Islands. Another boy is carrying parts of the stripped plant over his right shoulder.
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Man with Farmall Tractor Advertisement

Date: 05 1935
Description: Don Saesko (sp?) looks at a Farmall tractor advertisement while three children stand around him.
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Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1901
Description: Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover's color illustration features a woman with a rake watching a ...
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Farmall Regular Tractor in Soybean Field

Date: 1928
Description: A farmer in a field is using a Farmall Regular tractor with a mower attachment to cut soybeans for hay. The tractor is equipped with an umbrella that reads...
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Comparison of Tractor Farming and Horse Farming

Date: 1936
Description: A drawing titled: "The Life of Two Farmers" illustrating the difference in work loads between a horse farmer and a Farmall tractor farmer. According to the...
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Victory Garden Illustration

Date: 1943
Description: Uncle Sam stands in the foreground of an illustration promoting victory gardens and shakes the hand of a farmer with a hoe in his hand. Three women work in...
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Selling Peaches at the Shed

Date: 09 1923
Description: Men looking through baskets of peaches in an open shed, where fruit was sold by the bushel. Others stand nearby. Original caption reads: "Selling peaches a...
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Selling Peaches

Date: 1923
Description: A customer offers payment for fruit to a woman sitting at a small desk inside an orchard shed. Multiple rows of bushel baskets filled with peaches are line...
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Tractor Advertising Illustration

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising illustration showing a farmer using a horse and plow in a field while the image of a tractor and the word "kerosene" is floating above in the s...
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Poster Illustrating Old and New Harvesting Methods

Date: 05 15 1928
Description: Poster or display board illustrating the differences between "old" and "new" methods of harvesting grain. Includes images illustrating harvesting methods b...
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Young Man Sitting on Hay Rake

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a young man sitting on a horse-drawn dump rake pulled by a team of horses. In the background are hills.
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Farmall A Advertisement

Date: 1941
Description: Advertisement titled "Take Life Easier with a Farmall-A". The advertisement features two-color illustrations of tractors and a photograph of a farmer using...
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Farmall AV Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1941
Description: Advertisement for the McCormick-Deering Farmall AV tractor. Features one color and one black/white illustration of tractors and a photograph of a man usin...
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Twin City 12-20 Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the Twin City 12-20 tractor featuring six photographs of the machine at work in farm fields along with the caption: "Utility, Performance...
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Man with Horse-Drawn Push Binder

Date: 1907
Description: Side view of a man using a horse-drawn push binder in a field. The man is standing on a platform under an umbrella which has an advertisement for hardware ...
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"McCormick Day" in Small Rural Town

Date: 1899
Description: Elevated view of farmers lined up in horse-drawn wagons loaded with their new McCormick farm machines. Their wagons are adorned with "McCormick" signs and ...
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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 ...
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Tractors and Thresher Advertising Book

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet produced by Russell & Co. featuring a color illustration of a man using a Russell tractor to work in a farm field. Th...

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