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Steam Tractor with Sod-breaking Plows

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Description: Two men are posing standing on a steam tractor on the right, probably a Linnell, attached to sod-breaking plows steered by two men on the left. Behind them...
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

Farmall MV Harvesting Sugar Cane

Date: 1943
Description: The caption states: "Farmall MV shown is owned by C.R. Tschirn of Donaldsville, Louisiana, who operates a 350-acre farm, 225 acres of which were in sugar c...
Photograph

Farmall MV at Work Harvesting Sugar Cane

Date: 1943
Description: The caption states the "Farmall MV shown is owned by C.R. Tschirn of Donaldsville, Louisiana, who operates a 350-acre farm, 225 acres of which were in suga...
Painting

Threshing

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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

Corn Shredding

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Description: Two farm workers in the righthand foreground toss a corn bundle up to the horse-drawn corn shredding machine to be shredded. To the left, a man loads feed ...
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, ...
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

Silaging Operation

Date: 1900
Description: View across snowy field towards men engaged in a silaging operation with a tractor powered husker and shredder. Three men are standing on horse-drawn wagon...
Photograph

Tractor Drawn Binder

Date: 1915
Description: View across field and fence towards men using a (very early model) tractor to pull a binder. There are horses near the binder on the left, and a man is dri...
Photograph

Titan Tractor Pulling Harvester Thresher in Field

Date: 1920
Description: View across field towards two men using a Titan tractor to pull a harvester thresher in a field. Three men sit in a horse-drawn wagon behind on the left. P...
Photograph

Tractor Drawn Corn Pickers

Date: 1909
Description: View from front of a man driving an International tractor pulling a corn picker. On the right two men stand on a horse-drawn wagon piled with cornstalks.
Photograph

Two Boys with Horse-Drawn Wagon and Harvester Thresher

Date: 07 15 1925
Description: Two boys are sitting on a horse-drawn wagon in front of a tractor-drawn harvester thresher in a field.
Photograph

Tractor-Drawn Harvester Thresher in Field

Date: 07 15 1925
Description: Left side view of a McCormick-Deering tractor attached to a harvester thresher parked in a field. Three men are working in a horse-drawn wagon parked in fr...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Wagon and Harvester Thresher in Field

Date: 07 15 1925
Description: View from front of a man on a McCormick-Deering tractor pulling a McCormick-Deering No. 8 power drive harvester thresher in a field. Alongside on the right...
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

Baling Operation with Hay Presses

Date: 11 18 1926
Description: View across field towards a truck, wagons, and a tractor belt-driving a hay press. Bales of hay are stacked on the wagons and the truck. Two men are workin...
Photograph

Baling Operation with Hay Presses

Date: 11 18 1926
Description: View across field towards a truck, wagons, and a tractor belt-driving a hay press. Bales of hay are stacked on the wagons and the truck. Two men are workin...
Photograph

Baling Operation with Hay Presses

Date: 11 18 1926
Description: View across field towards a wagon, and a tractor belt-driving a hay press. Three men are working near the hay press.

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