Photograph
Hauling a Steam Tractor Away for Scrap
| A steam tractor is hauled along a dirt road by a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor. A building with text reading "Miller Elevator Co." stands in the background. |
| Image ID: | 83193 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1929 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Andover |
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| State: | South Dakota |
| Collection Name: | International Harvester Company photo albums, circa 1899-1965 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 7Z, Album 260, Pg.105 |
| Original Dimensions: | 8 x 6 inches |
| The original typewritten caption reads: "Taken during cleanup week at Andover, South Dakota. The old steam tractor which is being hauled to the railroad to be sold as scrap has stood near the highway leading into Andover for a number of years. No doubt it supplied the power for threshing many bushels of grain back in the early days of the self-binder and threshing machine--back in the days when farmers of the neighborhood pooled their efforts at threshing time, and farmers' wives perspired over hot stoves, cooking and baking for ravenous threshing crews. This picture is a striking illustration of how gas has replaced steam." |
| Tractors |
| Cities and towns |
| Industrial buildings |
| Metal industry |
| Outdoor photography |
| Grain elevators |
| Signs and signboards |
| Roads |
| Farmers |
| Agricultural machinery |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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