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Poster

Harvester-Thresher Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) showing a tractor-drawn harvester-thresher in a field under the slogan: "Once Over ...
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 ...
Photograph

Men Using Tractor and Threshing Machine

Date: 1897
Description: Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a...
Photograph

Threshing Scene

Date: 1905
Description: View across field of threshing scene, with steam-powered threshing machine and horse-drawn wagons. A large group of workers pose with men in suits. On the ...
Photograph

Sweep Horsepower Threshing

Date: 1890
Description: Sweep horsepower threshing. Men and products lined up near the machinery with a large haystack on the left.
Photograph

Deering Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1921
Description: Two farmers are using a Deering harvester-thresher (combine) and horse-drawn wagon to thresh grain.
Painting

Threshing

Date: 
Description: A threshing scene during harvest time. In the background, the separater tender stands on the thresher overseeing the whole operation. He has a weighing dev...
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...
Photograph

Group of Men and Boys Threshing

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men and boys threshing. They are using a tractor for a belt-driven threshing machine, and on the left two horses pull a wagon with large barrels.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Thresher Brochure

Date: 1937
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering stationary threshers. Text encourages farmers to "Get the Extra Bushels" by using McCormick-Deering ...
Book or Pamphlet

Threshing Machinery Booklet

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Nichols & Shepard Company threshing machinery featuring a color illustration of farmers using a Red River Special thre...
Photograph

Batzler Farm

Date: 08 1983
Description: "Threshing on the Batzler farm."
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

Threshing Scene

Date: 
Description: A scene in a field of men posing on and near a thresher. A man sits on a wagon with four or five pairs of horses standing around him. There is an oval-shap...
Photograph

Threshing Scene

Date: 
Description: View towards six men posing standing in and on top of a large haystack. In front of the haystack is a man standing on a large pile of hay on a wagon near t...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering No. 42 Harvester Thresher Combine and Farmall B

Date: 1941
Description: Original caption reads: "I-2618-EE, I-2623-EE, I-2625-EE and I-2624-EE. Taken on the farm of Mr. Marvin Dyer, the IHC dealer of Falls City, Nebraska and Hi...
Photograph

Harvest Time

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of men harvesting what appears to be hay on the Lloyd Jones farm. A tractor in the background on the left is powering the thresher with a lon...
Photograph

Men in Field with Thresher Powered by Tractor

Date: 07 25 1925
Description: View across field towards a group of men with horse-drawn wagons using a thresher powered by a tractor. Trees are in the background.
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

Large Threshing Operation

Date: 07 25 1925
Description: View across field towards men with horse-drawn wagons loaded with grain working with a tractor powered thresher in a field. There are trees in the backgrou...

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