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Thresher

Date: 1917
Description: A group of farmers feeds grain into a thresher with a horse-drawn wagon nearby.
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Picking Oranges

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Description: A group of agricultural workers picking oranges in an orchard. Several men are on ladders picking fruit, while other men pose on the ground. A horse-drawn ...
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Loading Hay

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Description: Agricultural workers are loading hay onto a wagon pulled by two horses in the vicinity of Carbondale or Elk Hill. A man sits in a horse-drawn carriage near...
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Woelfel Haystack

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Description: View of a farmer from top of straw stack. The man uses a fork to push down the straw as more is being blown onto the pile from a thresher. More men in work...
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Haying Operation

Date: 1900
Description: Men are working with a horse-drawn mower and a horse-powered hay stacker in a field. Two men and a child are standing on a large stack of hay, and a horse-...
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Stacking Grain

Date: 1908
Description: Alexander and August Krueger stacking grain. Alexander is standing on top of a tall pile of hay on a wagon, piling grain on the stack, while August is stan...
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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: “...
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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...
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Harvester Thresher Operation

Date: 12 12 1926
Description: View across field towards men working with a tractor belt-driving a thresher. Two men are standing on the back of a hay wagon loading a thresher. Another m...
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Hay Loader

Date: 10 06 1928
Description: Right side view of two men on a horse-drawn wagon with a hay loader on the back.
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Hay Loader

Date: 10 06 1928
Description: View across field towards two men on a horse-drawn wagon with a hay loader on the back.
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Ensilage Cutter

Date: 12 29 1928
Description: Slightly elevated view of men working with ensilage cutter near a barn.

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