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Tractor Pulling a Harvester in Australia

Date: 1950
Description: A man is driving a McCormick tractor pulling a McCormick-International harvester in a wheat field in Australia. Original caption reads: "In 1851, rich gold...
Book or Pamphlet

Up To Their Necks In Wheat

Date: 
Description: Oval-framed image showing three men standing in a wheat field. The wheat is so tall that only the men's heads are visible.
Print

Empire Mower and Reaper

Date: 1893
Description: Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “...
Photograph

Four Young Girls near Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man posing on a horse-drawn McCormick binder. Nearby on the right four young girls are sitting in the field on sheaves of wheat. In the back...
Photograph

No. 20 Combine

Date: 07 1931
Description: No. 20 Combine belonging to Samuelson & Mote, Des Moines, Iowa, combining wheat near Humeston, Iowa. Mr. Samuelson opens the tank.
Photograph

Harvesting Wheat by Hand

Date: 1900
Description: Group of people working in a field harvesting wheat by hand. Some of the workers are using a sickle.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering WD-6 Tractor Pulling No.62 Harvester Thresher

Date: 
Description: Original caption reads: "From International Harvester Company of New Zealand Ltd., 187-189 Cashel Street, Christchurch, New Zealand. No.62 Harvester Thresh...
Photograph

Farmall M Pulling Harvester Thresher in Wheat Field

Date: 1949
Description: Left side view of a man operating a Farmall M pulling a harvester-thresher in a field of wheat. A front end winch is on the tractor.
Photograph

Man Driving Tractor with Binder in Field

Date: 09 14 1925
Description: View across field towards a man driving a tractor to pull a binder. Bundles of wheat are lying in the field.
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

Grain Delivery Truck

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: A man is sitting in the driver's seat of an open truck loaded with grain on a scale at a weigh station. A man is standing near a small building holding the...
Photograph

Industrial Tractors at Weigh Station

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: A man is sitting in the driver's seat of an open truck loaded with grain, which is sitting on a scale at a weigh station. A man is standing near a small bu...
Photograph

Threshing

Date: 1910
Description: A man at far left, possibly Frank von der Sump, is posing with his elbow resting on a steam tractor. A belt from the tractor is powering a threshing machin...
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...
Photograph

Robicheau's Threshing Outfit

Date: 1904
Description: A man at left is standing and holding the reins of a four horse hitch, while three other men are posing between a steam tractor and threshing machine. Ther...
Photograph

Group Portrait of Children and Adults

Date: 10 16 1904
Description: Seven children are sitting on the ground in front of a row of seven adults who are sitting, with six adults standing in the rear. A woman in the back row, ...
Photograph

Grain Binder

Date: 1910
Description: A woman holding the reins of a saddled horse is standing next to a Milwaukee No. 10 grain harvester and binder hitched to three horses. A man is sitting on...
Photograph

Tractor and Thresher

Date: 09 15 1904
Description: Three men are posing on a large steam tractor, and a fourth man is sitting on a threshing machine behind the tractor. The large drive belt is coiled and is...

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