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Photograph

Farmers Plow Field with Mogul 12-25 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Right side view of men plowing a field with a Mogul 12-25 tractor and a breaking plow.
Photograph

Harvesting Hemp with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Men harvesting hemp with an International 8-16 tractor and a hemp harvester.
Photograph

Harvesting Hemp with Mogul Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Workers harvesting hemp with a Mogul 10-20 tractor and a hemp harvester.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Tillage Implements Catalog

Date: 1917
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick tillage implements. Features an illustration of a farmer in a field with a horse-drawn disk harrow.
Photograph

Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1917
Description: A farmer is using a large team of mules and horses to pull a harvester-thresher (combine) through a field.
Photograph

Child with Jug in Field

Date: 1917
Description: A small boy in a cap drinks from a heavy water jug near shocks of grain in a field.
Photograph

Man with Tractor and Wagon

Date: 1917
Description: A man is pulling an eight-wheeled wagon down a dirt road using an International 8-16 tractor. A fence and water tower are in the background.
Photograph

Teacher and Classmates Ready to Pick Seed Corn

Date: 1917
Description: A group of boys from the Walkenhorst School holding fabric bags while posing in a field with their instructor on their way to select seed corn.
Photograph

Titan 10-20 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Rear view of man on Titan 10-20 Tractor. The stencils are on the back of the tractor. In the background is a field, and what appears to be a factory.
Print

Trenam Farm Tractor Pamphlet

Date: 1917
Description: Outer flap of a pamphlet created by the Trenam Tractor Company Incorporated to advertise the Trenam farm tractor. The pamphlet features an illustration of ...
Print

"Yuba Bulletin" Cover

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of the winter edition of the "Yuba Bulletin," a publication produced by the Yuba Products Company to advertise their line of agricultural merch...
Print

Wolverine Kerosene Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Advertisement for a Wolverine kerosene tractor featuring a photograph of a farmer using the tractor and disc harrow to work in a field. The headline reads:...
Print

The Gile Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Illustration of a man using the Gile tractor in a farm field.
Postcard

Fuselage on Truck

Date: 1917
Description: Photographic postcard of the Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2) fuselage in profile. The fuselage is carried by a truck, with a man sitting in the driver's se...
Postcard

"It's a Lawson"

Date: 1917
Description: Four views of the Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2). Two views are of the Lawson parked on the ground and two views show the Lawson flying in the air. In the...
Photograph

Young Children Bugging and Hoeing Potatoes

Date: 1917
Description: Two young children working barefoot in a field. J.C. Allen.
Photograph

Alfred Lawson in Flight Suit

Date: 1917
Description: Full-length portrait of Alfred Lawson standing in a field in leather flight gear. This is around the time the Lawson Aircraft Company built the Military Tr...
Photograph

Disking

Date: 1917
Description: Stuart Fargo sitting on a disk pulled by a team of four horses on the F.B. Fargo farm.
Poster

Vous aussi faites votre devoir

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration depicting a woman standing and holding a baby and a rifle. She is looking at a man plowing a field. A town is in the background...
Photograph

Women War Workers — Avery Tractor Test

Date: 1917
Description: A woman is driving a tractor, which is pulling an implement. Several people are looking on. Caption reads: "Test of 8-16 H.P. [horsepower] Avery Tractor in...

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