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Case's Threshing Machine
1850
Engraving of a man in a coat and hat feeding stalks into a thresher. The thresher is run by two horses on a treadmill at right. The grain is collected from the chute and put into sacks by a man at ...
Steam Tractor Pulling Wagon and New Peerless Thresher
1900
A group of men are posing on and around a steam tractor hooked up to a wagon and a New Peerless thresher.
Threshing Day
Threshing day in the fields at the Quinney family farm. View includes, two workers, a tractor powering the thresher, a horse-drawn cart full of straw, a threshing machine, a large pile of chaff an...
Tractor Powering Thresher
August 25, 1927
A tractor in the foreground is belt-driving a thresher. A group of men are working near the thresher and wagon. Farm buildings are in the background.