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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

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...
Photograph

Husker and Shredder in Field

Date: 1915
Description: Two men loading corn stalks into a husker-shredder from a horse-drawn wagon in a snow-covered field. A building with windows near a sloped roof is behind ...
Photograph

Threshing Day

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Description: Threshing day in the fields at the Quinney family farm. View includes, two workers, a tractor powering the thresher, a horse-drawn cart full of straw, a t...
Photograph

Mogul 8-16 Tractor and Corn Picker

Date: 1916
Description: Men with Mogul 8-16 tractor, corn picker(?) and wagon in a cornfield.
Photograph

Mogul 8-16 Tractor and Corn Picker

Date: 1915
Description: Men with a Mogul 8-16 tractor, corn picker and horse-drawn wagon in a cornfield.
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

Steam Power

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Description: A harvest scene in which an old-fashioned steam-powered tractor is hooked up to a threshing machine. There is a pile of coal next to the tractor and a tank...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Threshers

Date: 1932
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering stationary threshers featuring a color illustration of an all-steel thresher at work in a field and illustrations ...
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

Men Operating Farm Machinery

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of men and boys operating a steam tractor used for belt-driven threshing machinery. Farm buildings are on the right, and one has a thatched r...
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

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

Harvester Thresher Operation

Date: 12 12 1926
Description: View across field towards men working with a tractor belt-driving a thresher. Two men are standing on the back of a hay wagon loading a thresher. Another m...
Photograph

Tractor-Drawn McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thresher

Date: 08 31 1927
Description: View across field towards a team of two horses pulling a wagon. A man is standing in the wagon. Behind is a man driving a tractor pulling a man is standing...
Photograph

Threshing Operation in Canada

Date: 11 22 1927
Description: View across field towards a threshing operation. Men are standing on top of a wagon and a thresher, and the thresher is shooting hay onto a large haystack....

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