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Photograph

Threshing with Horses

Date: 1900
Description: Threshing with horse sweep power and men at work.
Poster

International Tractor and Engine Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for International tractors and engines featuring an illustration of a farmer using a cultivator in a field beside a herd of cows. The ma...
Photograph

Deering Harvester-Thresher

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

Deering Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1918
Description: A team of horses is pulling farmers and a Deering harvester-thresher (combine) in a field.
Photograph

Harvester-Thresher

Date: 09 18 1925
Description: View from rear of J.P. Wedin operating a tractor and harvester-thresher (combine), sold by dealer L.C. Martin, along the side of a steep hill.
Photograph

Harvester-Thresher

Date: 09 30 1925
Description: Elevated view of three farmers operating a harvester-thresher (combine) with a team of nine horses.
Photograph

Harvester-Thresher

Date: 09 18 1925
Description: Theo Klemmer using a harvester-thresher (combine) sold by the Lind Hardware Company. Two other men are on the combine with him.
Photograph

15-30 Tractor and Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1930
Description: A farmer is using a McCormick 15-30 tractor and No. 11 harvester-thresher (combine) in an unspecified non-United States location. The original caption read...
Photograph

Husker and Shredder

Date: 1931
Description: A man works with a husker-shredder near a silo and barn. A wagon is parked on the right. Original caption states: "Husker and Shredder used for custom w...
Photograph

Men Working on Husker and Shredder

Date: 1917
Description: A man is standing on a wagon loaded with corn stalks while another man is operating a husker-shredder.
Photograph

McCormick Husker and Shredder

Date: 1915
Description: Two men are feeding corn stalks from a horse-drawn wagon into a McCormick husker-shredder.
Photograph

Crew of Men with Husker and Shredder

Date: 1915
Description: A crew of men standing with a wagon and a husker-shredder near a barn. A sixth man in a dark coat and hat is standing under the ladder leaning against the ...
Photograph

Husker and Shredder Near Barn

Date: 1912
Description: A man operating a Husker-Shredder near a barn and silo. The husker-shredder is powered with a belt connected to an engine.
Photograph

Tractor and Husker-Shredder

Date: 1912
Description: Two men working with a husker and shredder in a barnyard. The machine is connected with a belt to the power-takeoff of a Mogul tractor. Original caption st...
Photograph

McCormick Reapers in a Wheat Field

Date: 08 11 1963
Description: Two men on two McCormick reapers at work in a wheat field. In the distance several farm buildings are visible with large clouds in the sky.
Photograph

Two Reapers in a Field

Date: 08 11 1963
Description: View up slope of two men operating two McCormick reapers in a wheat field.
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

Farm Dangers

Date: 08 1927
Description: A farmer is standing on the edge of a wooden wagon pitching hay into a running thresher, demonstrating an unsafe operating position.
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 ...
Photograph

Deering #123 Prototype Self Propelled Combine

Date: 1944
Description: Man driving an experimental Deering #123 self propelled harvester-thresher (combine). Original caption reads: "Argentina, South America-Deering #123 self p...

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