Photograph
Man Harvesting with Reaping Hook or Sickle
| A man harvests grain with a reaping hook or sickle. The man was likely re-enacting early grain harvesting methods for a company photographer. |
| Image ID: | 59542 |
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| Creation Date: | date unknown |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
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| Collection Name: | International Harvester Company corporate archives central file (documented series), 1819-1998 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | M2002-181, box 11, folder 29 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5 x 7 inches |
| A press release that accompanied this image in the 1960s or 1970s reads: "With the earliest known harvesting implement, the sickle or reaping hook, as it was called, one man could cut from one-half to one acre in a hard day's work. The cut grain was later bound by hand." |
| Agricultural implements |
| Field crops |
| Harvesting |
| Hats |
| Work clothes |
| Croplands |
| Land use, Rural |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
| Farmers |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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