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Photograph

Men Using Tractor and Threshing Machine

Date: 1897
Description: Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a...
Photograph

Tobacco Harvest

Date: 
Description: Men in field with tobacco on wagon, and a barn and an outbuilding in the background. This is Lewis Dahl's tobacco harvest in back of his father's home (Nel...
Photograph

Corn Binder and Wagon

Date: 1914
Description: Two men stand in a horse-drawn wagon as corn stalks are loaded from a field.
Photograph

Boys Working in Field

Date: 04 15 1925
Description: Boys using hand tools to work in a field. A mule-drawn wagon is in the background. They are all wearing hats and overalls.
Painting

Steam Power

Date: 
Description: A harvest scene in which an old-fashioned steam-powered tractor is hooked up to a threshing machine. There is a pile of coal next to the tractor and a tank...
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...
Painting

Corn Shredding

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Description: Two farm workers in the righthand foreground toss a corn bundle up to the horse-drawn corn shredding machine to be shredded. To the left, a man loads feed ...
Book or Pamphlet

Men with Corn Harvest

Date: 1908
Description: Men with a mule team pulling a wagon beside bins filled with ears of corn. One of the men appears to be holding a goose near the pile of corn.
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

Farmer Picking Corn by Hand

Date: 1911
Description: A farmer wearing a straw hat and smoking a pipe examining or picking corn. Behind him is a team of horses pulling a wagon.
Poster

McCormick-Deering Threshers

Date: 1932
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering stationary threshers featuring a color illustration of an all-steel thresher at work in a field and illustrations ...
Photograph

Harvesting Grain into Horse-drawn Wagons

Date: 
Description: View across field of two men pitching grain into horse-drawn wagons. Between the two wagons is a man in a horse-drawn carriage. In the far background is an...
Drawing

Threshing

Date: 1945
Description: A threshing scene in a field. One man pitches grain into a threshing machine while standing on the load of grain in the wagon pulled by two horses. A secon...
Photograph

Threshing Scene

Date: 
Description: A scene in a field of men posing on and near a thresher. A man sits on a wagon with four or five pairs of horses standing around him. There is an oval-shap...
Postcard

William Fiebelkorn Farm

Date: 1908
Description: William Unglaube is in the wagon, which has bags of barley in it, with William Fiebelkorn on William Fiebelkorn's farm. There is an unidentified figure in ...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man using a horse-drawn binder in a field. In the background on the left is a herd of cows. In the background on the...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binders in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view across section of harvested field towards two men using horse-drawn McCormick binders in a field. On the far left is a man in a hors...
Photograph

Large Harvesting Operation in a Field

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a group of people engaged in a large harvesting operation. In the foreground on the right is a horse-drawn binder. A number of th...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View of a man using a horse-drawn mower in a field. A man is standing near a horse-drawn buggy in front of the mower. Beyond the buggy on the left is a wag...
Photograph

Silaging Operation

Date: 1900
Description: View across barnyard of men engaged in a silaging operation. One man is sitting on a tractor on the left to supply belt-driven power to the husker and shre...

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