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Photograph

Farmers Threshing Grain

Date: 10 05 1928
Description: Elevated view of farmers threshing grain in a field with a belt-driven McCormick all-steel thresher run by a Farmall tractor. One person is working inside ...
Painting

Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
Book or Pamphlet

Lauson Tractor Usages

Date: 1925
Description: Inside pages of a pamphlet advertising the Lauson tractor, depicting six usages of the equipment on a farm: plowing, silo filling, discing, corn shelling, ...
Photograph

Kuckkahn Brothers Threshing Rig

Date: 08 15 1899
Description: Three Kuckkahn Brothers standing and siting on their Altman-Taylor Engine, Separator, and Threshing Rig.
Photograph

Men Operating Farm Machinery

Date: 
Description: Men operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. The negative is double exposed and shows the outline of a photographer's wagon.
Drawing

Threshing

Date: 1945
Description: A threshing scene in a field. One man pitches grain into a threshing machine while standing on the load of grain in the wagon pulled by two horses. A secon...
Photograph

Large Threshing Operation

Date: 07 25 1925
Description: Elevated view across field towards men threshing with a tractor powered thresher. Near the thresher are men with horse-drawn wagons stacked with grain.
Photograph

Tractor-Drawn Harvester Thresher

Date: 07 15 1925
Description: View over tall grain in a field towards two men, one driving a tractor pulling another man on a harvester thresher. There are trees along a fence line on t...
Photograph

Tractor-Drawn Harvester Thresher in Field

Date: 07 15 1925
Description: View from road towards a man driving a tractor to pull a harvester thresher in a field.
Photograph

Threshing Operation

Date: 08 26 1925
Description: Elevated view of a threshing operation. A tractor on the left is powering the thresher with a long belt. Three men are standing in three horse-drawn wagons...
Photograph

Threshing Scene

Date: 1936
Description: A man is unloading bundles of grain from a horse-drawn wagon to another man (barely visible) who will feed the bundles into an Advance-Rumely threshing mac...
Photograph

Men Standing Near Tractor and Harvester Thresher

Date: 08 18 1926
Description: Two men are standing near a harvester thresher attached to a tractor parked in a field. There are automobiles and buildings in the background.
Photograph

Harvester-Thresher; Shredder

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: A harvester-thresher, shredder is being belt-driven in a field. In the background are piles of hay, and a fence and a field are in the far background.
Photograph

Farmall Drawn Harvester-Thresher

Date: 10 20 1927
Description: View down field towards a man driving a tractor pulling a McCormick-Deering harvester-thresher. Trees are along a fenceline in the background.

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