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Combine Thresher and Tractor

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Two women on a Nichols & Shepard combine thresher and Hart Parr tractor.
Photograph

Three Men Haying

Date: 
Description: Three men with a wagon are on the left, with a barn, broken fence and farm implement on the right.
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Men Threshing

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Description: View across fence towards a crew of twenty men posing sitting or standing on a threshing machine and a steam tractor.
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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.
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

Alfred Lunt and Threshers

Date: 1942
Description: Alfred Lunt watching as farm workers pitch grain into a thresher on the Ten Chimneys farm. Two men at the end of a chute collect the separated grain in sac...
Photograph

31-RW West Coast special harvester thresher

Date: 07 10 1927
Description: Original caption reads: "New 31-RW West Coast special harvester-thresher owned by Frank Rakow of Rio Vista, California, and shown in operation in 'gyp' (Eg...
Photograph

Threshing Crew

Date: 
Description: View of a threshing crew with their steam-powered tractor posing in front of a barn.
Photograph

Threshing Operation

Date: 1919
Description: Men are posing with two large stacks of hay at a threshing operation.
Photograph

Group of Men with Harvester-Thresher

Date: 07 22 1926
Description: A group of men are standing behind a harvester-thresher.
Photograph

Thresher in Factory Yard

Date: 11 18 1926
Description: Thresher parked in factory yard. In the background is an automobile, water tower, and factory buildings.
Photograph

Cotton Picker

Date: 08 24 1927
Description: Cotton picker running outdoors. There is a brick building and a backdrop behind the machine.
Photograph

Tractor Powered Hay Press

Date: 08 25 1927
Description: A tractor in the right foreground is belt driving a hay press. There is also what appears to be a thresher, which one person is aiming into the bed of a tr...
Photograph

Family Farm in Canada

Date: 11 22 1927
Description: Men working on a threshing operation in the farm yard of a family farm. A haystack is in the left foreground, and on the right a man is standing on the bac...
Photograph

Family Farm in Canada

Date: 11 22 1927
Description: Men working on a threshing operation on a farm. A man wearing a hat is standing on top of the McCormick-Deering thresher. Another man on the right is stand...
Drawing

Filling Haymow with Thresher

Date: 08 25 1928
Description: View across barnyard towards men using a thresher near a barn. A tractor in the yard on the left is belt-driving the thresher to fill the haymow. There is ...
Drawing

Filling Haymow

Date: 08 22 1928
Description: View towards men using a thresher to fill a haymow in a barn. A tractor is belt-driving the thresher.
Photograph

Thresher at McCormick Works

Date: 06 03 1909
Description: Thresher at McCormick Works. Close-up view, and part marked with arrow.
Photograph

Men Operating Thresher in Plant Yard

Date: 06 08 1911
Description: A group of men are operating a thresher in a plant yard at McCormick Works. Railroad cars and factory buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Threshing Outfit and Crew

Date: 09 15 1904
Description: Thirteen men take time from threshing duties to pose for a group portrait with a team of horses, threshing machine with straw elevator, and a steam tractor...

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