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Poster

Deering Hay Press

Date: 1920
Description: South American advertising poster for the Deering hay presses. Includes a color illustration of farmers with a horse-powered hay press near a large haystac...
Poster

Genuine Baldwin Chains

Date: 1920
Description: Advertising poster for Baldwin Chains. "Baldwin - it's the Chain that stands the Strain." Includes an photograph of a man driving an International Harveste...
Photograph

Russian Man Plowing Field with Homemade Harrow

Date: 1920
Description: Man guides a homemade harrow through a field with a horse. The original caption reads: "Primitive methods of agriculture in Russia (Volga region)."
Photograph

Farm Demonstration

Date: 1920
Description: A group of farmers listening to a talk by an agricultural extension representative (probably the man on the left).
Photograph

Field Work

Date: 1920
Description: Two men working with walking cultivators(?) in a field.
Photograph

Man Operating Grain Binder

Date: 1920
Description: Right side view of a farmer driving a team of three horses to pull a Keystone grain binder in a field.
Photograph

Farmer in Barnyard with Milk Cans

Date: 1920
Description: A farmer stands in a barnyard holding a milk can.
Photograph

Two Men Harvesting with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Two farmers use an International 8-16 tractor and a threshing machine in a field.
Photograph

Two Men Plowing

Date: 1920
Description: Two farmers use an International 8-16 tractor with attached machinery to plow a farm field. Harvested bundles of the crop are in the distance.
Photograph

John Quinney

Date: 1920
Description: John Quinney, Richard Quinney's grandfather, standing in front of a horse-drawn harrow on the fields of his farm.
Photograph

Potato Field

Date: 1920
Description: A view of a potato field showing the rows of potatoes, with men standing near full bushels. Caption reads: "An Aroostook Potato Field. Houlton, ME."
Photograph

Tractor Pulling P&O Plow

Date: 1920
Description: Tractor pulling a P&O plow in a field.
Photograph

Man using Horse-Drawn Walking Planter

Date: 1920
Description: A man is using a walking planter pulled by a work horse or mule through a field.
Photograph

Man with Lime Sower

Date: 1920
Description: A man is using a shovel to transfer lime from a pile in a field into a lime sower pulled by two horses.
Photograph

Man with Lime Sower

Date: 1920
Description: A man holding a shovel is opening the lid of a lime sower pulled by two horses. He is standing next to a lime pile in a field, and what appear to be haysta...
Photograph

Men with Lime Pulverizer

Date: 1920
Description: A man is feeding limestone into a "Jeffrey lime pulver" powered by an International tractor. A pile of rocks is in the foreground, and a farmhouse and anot...
Photograph

Poor Drainage in Field

Date: 1920
Description: A man is operating an International 8-16 tractor around a wet area in a field at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. On the right is a tr...
Photograph

Men Loading Wagon

Date: 1920
Description: View across a field of two men loading corn into a horse-drawn wagon. On the right are corn shocks.
Photograph

Woman Straining Liquid

Date: 1920
Description: A woman standing under a rooftop near a doorway pouring liquid through what appears to be a cheesecloth strainer and into a clay pot.
Photograph

Man Using Oliver Plow

Date: 1920
Description: Rear view of a man using an Oliver plow pulled by a team of two horses to work around a tree in a field. A railroad train is in the background.

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