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Champaign County Livestock Marketing Yards, Champaign, Illinois

Tile, Drainage

Grain elevator

Flail (harvesting)

The Heart of the Cornbelt book cover

Plow, Breaking

Richard M. Britt

A.E. Swap's Residence and Business, Weston, Illinois

Indiana Agriculture

The Farmer and His Wife

Rice Cultivation in the Four Seasons

Farmer, Springfield Connecticut

Vase with a Woman Tending Geese and Chickens, from the Series "Twenty-seven Contemporary Artists

Huelga

Sketch for American Gothic

Political Vision of the Mexican People

Farm of Saint-Sauveur

Sharecroppper's Family, Hale County, Alabama

Cattle wash at Champaign County Fair, 1978

Walton Plow Shop

Driving Hogs to Market

Harvest Time Sketch

Print, Photographic (threshing scene)

Moving Oxen

Corn Landscape

Stalk Rake

Automated Corn Planting

Print, Photographic (threshing scene)

Metal Wheeled Tractor

Melvin Hendricks on Tractor

Shocked Corn

Farmer's Elevator

Checking corn

Washing out roots

Walking Corn

Address to the Farmers

Spring in Town

Hog Heaven

Photograph with Two Farmers in Conversation

Farmers in the Coversation

Champaign County Livestock Marketing Yards, Champaign, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Champaign county Livestock Marketing Yards, 610 Gravel Road, Urbana.
Tile, Drainage
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Long Ceramic Field Tile. Trumpet-shaped with flared end at the bottom. Tapererd with an enlarged ring and narrow fitting rim on the other end. Hand thrown.
Grain elevator
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer's elevator in Cooksville, Illinois has wooden siding on all sides. A fence leads to this elevator, which has a shingled roof.
Flail (harvesting)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This wooden flail was used during harvesting to thresh grain.
The Heart of the Cornbelt book cover
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This cover from The Heart of the Cornbelt: An Illustrated History of Corn Farming in McLean County by William D. Walters Jr. covers corn farming from Native Americans to present.
Plow, Breaking
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Wood and wrought iron plow. Long, tapered, and slightly curved wooden beam with "V" shaped handles attached to the back of the beam. Long dished iron blade held in place with a forged iron screw and iron straps. The cutting blade is mounted to the beam and extends downwards to the tip of the blade. 132" long.
Richard M. Britt
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Richard M. Britt was an early farmer in Mount Hope Township in McLean County.
A.E. Swap's Residence and Business, Weston, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This drawing is of the small store of A.E. Swap in Weston, McLean County.
Indiana Agriculture
Image | 1942 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionMarch 14, 1942 and July 17, 1942.
The Farmer and His Wife
Image | 1497 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCirca 1497.
Rice Cultivation in the Four Seasons
Image | 1683-1755 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionBetween 1683 and 1755.
Farmer, Springfield Connecticut
Image | 1945 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: American
Vase with a Woman Tending Geese and Chickens, from the Series "Twenty-seven Contemporary Artists
Image | 1939 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: American
Huelga
Image | 1965-1970 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionBetween 1965 and 1970.
Sketch for American Gothic
Image | 1930 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: American
Political Vision of the Mexican People
Image | 1923-1928 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionBetween 1923 and 1928.
Farm of Saint-Sauveur
Image | 1860-1870 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionBetween circa 1860 and 1870.
Sharecroppper's Family, Hale County, Alabama
Image | 1936 | Modern and Contemporary Art from the Jonathan Fineberg CollectionCulture: American
Cattle wash at Champaign County Fair, 1978
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Cattle wash at Champaign County Fair, 1978
Walton Plow Shop
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Walton Plow Shop manufactured plows and farm implements in downtown Bloomington from 1857 to the 1890s.
Driving Hogs to Market
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A sketch of men with whips driving a herd of hogs to market.
Harvest Time Sketch
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A harvest scene sketch of a farmer shocking corn, another harvesting it, and bundles of shocked corn scattered throughout the field.
Print, Photographic (threshing scene)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Threshing scene on the Allen Grant Little farm, Hensley Township, Champaign County, Illinois. Right to left, Allen Grant Little and son Harvey. Charles V. True Jr. (no hat), Wylie True, and Kirker True. A steam thresher hooked to a blower stands in the foreground, on the right-hand side is a single horse buggy next to a wagon. Harvey Little carries a water jug.
Moving Oxen
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A sketch of a man whipping six oxen in front of a plow in the field.
Corn Landscape
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A photograph for a Funk advertisement by James Holbert, one of the main men behind Funk's success. The photo shows a large cornfield in the background and and a farmer with cattle in the foreground. Text on photo reads: Corn. America's contribution to the world's food supply.
Stalk Rake
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This 19th century stalk rake was used to remove stalks in the field from the previous year's corn.
Automated Corn Planting
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In 1995, a tractor attached to an automated corn planter seeds a field. Bags of Ciba seed are used.
Print, Photographic (threshing scene)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph. Threshing scene on the Allen Grant Little farm, Hensley Township, Champaign County, Illinois. Image shows a threshing crew operating a steam thresher attached to a blower. Several full wagons are in the foreground, along with waterbarrels and a water truck.
Metal Wheeled Tractor
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Three farmers in overalls look over the engine of a metal wheeled tractor in the 1930s as a well-dressed man sits on the machine with a jug.
Melvin Hendricks on Tractor
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Melvin Hendricks, a farm hand, uses one of the first tractors in McLean County in 1935.
Shocked Corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Shocked corn as it appears in a farmer's field with a farmer looking on.
Farmer's Elevator
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer's elevator in Cooksville, Illinois, has siding on all sides. A fence leads to the elevator, which has a shingled roof.
Checking corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer wearing a blue shirt and khaki pants checks a stalk of corn in a field.
Washing out roots
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Standing in a hole around where a cornstalk was growing, a farmer washes the roots of the plant with a hose to inspect the crop.
Walking Corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer with a hoe walks corn about 1935.
Address to the Farmers
Multi-Page Item | 12 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)An Address to the Farmers of Great Britain: with an Essay on the Prairies of the Western Country: by Morris Birkbeck: to which is amended The Constitution of the State of Illinois, London, 1822. This address is written from Wanborough, Illinois, March 31, 1822. Published in London by J. Ridgway, 1822.
Spring in Town
Image | 1942 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: American
Hog Heaven
Image | 1957-1977 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionBetween 1957 and 1977.
Photograph with Two Farmers in Conversation
Image | 1888 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCirca 1888.
Farmers in the Coversation
Image | 1877 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: German

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