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Photograph

Kuckkahn Brothers Threshing Rig

Date: 08 15 1899
Description: Three Kuckkahn Brothers standing and siting on their Altman-Taylor Engine, Separator, and Threshing Rig.
Print

Baker Grain Thresher

Date: 1929
Description: Side view of the Baker grain thresher. The caption beneath the illustration reads: "We invite you to study carefully and thoroughly this interior view of t...
Photograph

Belle City Thresher

Date: 03 1907
Description: A Belle City Manufactory Co. thresher sits in what may be a factory, possibly the McCormick Works. In the background is what appears to be a supply shelf a...
Photograph

People Posing Around Farm Machinery

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Description: People posing in field, with a barn in the background among trees. In the center a man, three women and a boy are standing in front of a wire fence. Behind...
Photograph

Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: Elevated view of men and boys operating a steam tractor used for belt-driven threshing machinery. Farm buildings are on the right, and one has a thatched r...
Photograph

Thompson Foundry and Machine Shop

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Description: Large group of men posing standing by and sitting on farm machinery, including a thresher and steam tractors. Probably at the Thompson Foundry and Machine ...
Photograph

Men Operating Farm Machinery

Date: 
Description: A group of men are operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. Three men are posing in the foreground near the tractor, and anot...
Photograph

Men Operating Farm Machinery

Date: 
Description: Men operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. The negative is double exposed and shows the outline of a photographer's wagon.
Photograph

Men Operating Farm Machinery

Date: 
Description: Men operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. Two men are posing on the right with the tractor. On the left a group of men are...
Book or Pamphlet

Avery Threshers Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Avery Yellow-Fellow and Yellow-Kid threshers. The cover features an illustration of men using threshers in a farm...
Book or Pamphlet

Threshing Machines Pamphlet

Date: 1921
Description: Back cover of a pamphlet advertising Advance-Rumely threshing machines featuring a color illustration of farmers using a stationary thresher near a barn.
Book or Pamphlet

Geiser Thresher

Date: 1919
Description: Pamphlet advertising the Geiser No.4 and No. 5 thresher featuring a photograph of a man and dog beside the machine, and the cut-out shape of a tractor on t...
Book or Pamphlet

Caterpillar on the Farm

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising: "The Caterpillar on the Farm." The illustration depicts a Caterpillar crawler tractor used to power what appears to ...
Historical Essay

Case, Jerome Increase (1819-1891)

Agricultural Innovator
Biography of Racine-based Jerome Increase Case, one of the leaders in the agricultural revolution.
Historical Essay

Wild Rice Threshing Machine

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Improvised wild rice threshing machine used on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation, Wisconsin, c. 1990. (Museum object #1999.61.5)
Photograph

Group of Men with Threshing Machine

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of a large group of men working with a threshing machine. In the left foreground is a belt connected to equipment (out of frame) that is run...
Photograph

Steam Tractor Running a Thresher

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Description: View across field of tall grass towards two men on a steam tractor belt-driving a thresher on the far left near a team of two horses. In the background is ...
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

IH 624 Diesel Tactor and Rice Thresher in the Philippines

Date: 1969
Description: This photograph was likely taken by the International Harvester Overseas Division for promotional purposes, and shows a man driving an International Harves...
Photograph

Case Threshing Machine

Date: 
Description: Advertising image of a Case Threshing Machine.

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