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Russian Men Threshing Grain

Date: 1910
Description: Four men threshing grain by hand while two children are watching. The location is Russia, probably near Lubertzy.
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Indians Thresh Wheat

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Description: Indians thresh the first wheat at the Sac and Fox Agency in Iowa.
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Deering Trade Card

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising card for William Deering and Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment. Features a color illustration of men, women, and children in a f...
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Native Americans and Harvester-Thresher at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 07 25 1933
Description: Native Americans in traditional dress test a harvester-thresher (combine) in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's fai...
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Farm Workers and Equipment in Barnyard

Date: 1905
Description: A group of men are working in front of a barn. The equipment includes wagons, a steam engine, thresher, shovels, and extra wheels on the right. One of th...
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...
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Batzler Farm

Date: 08 1983
Description: "Threshing on the Batzler farm."
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People Posing Around Farm Machinery

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Description: People posing in field, with a barn in the background among trees. In the center a man, three women and a boy are standing in front of a wire fence. Behind...
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Threshing Scene

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Description: View across field towards men working with two threshing machines, each pulled by a team of horses wearing flynets. There is a boy on the left standing nea...
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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.
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Group Portrait of Men in Field During Demo of New Machine

Date: 08 07 1926
Description: View across field towards a large group of men, and one boy, standing near a tractor, and new demo machinery.
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Men Posing in Field with Harvester-Thresher

Date: 07 19 1927
Description: View of a group of men and children posing, on and around a tractor pulling a harvester thresher. Many of the men are wearing white shirts and neckties,
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Group of Men and Children with Harvester Thresher

Date: 08 13 1927
Description: Group portrait of men standing in front of a McCormick-Deering harvester thresher in a field. Two children are standing on the harvester thresher above the...
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Threshing Demonstration at Steam Engine Days

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Description: Elevated view of a man standing on a hay wagon, lifting hay with a pitchfork to load it onto a steam engine powered thresher. A group of people are watchin...
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Family with Lunch at Threshing Operation in Canada

Date: 11 22 1927
Description: In the foreground a man is standing with three women and one girl. In the background men are near a tractor, thresher, and wagons of hay near a haystack.
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Threshing or Haying Operation

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Description: A large group of men, women and children are posing with threshing machinery, a steam engine and a horse-drawn wagon in front of a barn. Lantern slide.
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Tractor Powering Threshing Operation

Date: 10 04 1906
Description: A group of people are posing on a farm where a tractor is powering a thresher. Men and boys are standing on and near a horse-drawn wagon and a corn elevato...

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