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Farm Equipment in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: A cultivator sitting in the snow near a fence, illustrating the hazards of improper equipment housing. A herd of cows is in the background near a barn and ...
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Old Farm Machinery

Date: 04 23 1926
Description: Exterior view of a barnyard littered with old farm machinery and piled wood.
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Mower in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: A sickle bar mower is sitting in snow beside a wire fence, illustrating the hazards of improper equipment housing. A barn and other farm buildings are in t...
Print

Mechanical Farm Power

Date: 1930
Description: Advertisement for La Crosse agricultural equipment with a headline reading: "Farming Conditions Demand Mechanical Power." An illustration of the La Crosse ...
Book or Pamphlet

Craig Tractor Catalog Cover

Date: 1918
Description: Advertisement cover featuring a color illustration of a man using a Craig tractor. Barns, silos, and agricultural buildings are in the background. The text...
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Loading McCormick-Deering Manure Spreader

Date: 04 1930
Description: A man is using a shovel to load a McCormick-Deering manure spreader pulled by two horses.
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Refilling a Silo

Date: 02 22 1927
Description: Two men are refilling a silo using a silo filler at the IHC Experimental Farm.
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Harvesting Alfalfa

Date: 1915
Description: Several agricultural workers mowing and baling bottom land alfalfa in the vicinity of Tulsa. The operation utilizes horse-drawn farm equipment. A barn and ...
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Cluttered Farm Yard

Date: 05 1926
Description: Farm yard littered with parts of old farm machines, wagons and other items, farm buildings and an automobile.
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Leaning Shed

Date: 03 1926
Description: A collapsing shed housing various pieces of farm machinery and wagons.
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Manure Management

Date: 10 1930
Description: A man is using a pulley on a track system to release manure from a litter carrier into a manure spreader at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental...
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Sheep on Agricultural Campus

Date: 1900
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural campus with sheep and a dairy barn in the background.
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Corn Husker with Tractor

Date: 07 02 1929
Description: A corn husker shredder stands outside a barn in a farmyard beside a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor.
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Tractor with Corn Sheller

Date: 07 02 1929
Description: A McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor attached to a corn sheller stands in a farmyard in front of a barn.
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Plowing on an IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 04 28 1932
Description: View across field on an International Harvester Company farm towards a group of men standing and watching a plowing demonstration. Several barns and other ...
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Farms Hazards: Children on Machinery

Date: 1926
Description: A child on a Farmall tractor. The original caption warns of the danger of children "fooling with levers on running machinery." This photo was taken for Int...
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University of Wisconsin Barn Entrance

Date: 06 04 1972
Description: Ornate entrance to the University of Wisconsin Madison beef cattle barn on the Agricultural School campus.
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Diversification Meeting

Date: 
Description: Automobiles parked for a "diversification meeting" at an IH "experiment farm."
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Man Using Tractor in Barnyard

Date: 06 27 1928
Description: A man is driving a McCormick-Deering tractor pulling an agricultural implement in the mud in a barnyard near a barn and a silo.
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Threshing Operation

Date: 1919
Description: Men posing with two large stacks of hay at a threshing operation.

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