Historic Farming Practices

Black and white images depicting farmers using tractors and machinery to harvest oats and corn in mid-20th century America, showcasing rural farming activities.

Vintage Photograph. Farmer rides tractor spraying pasture.

Farmers Hauling Oats from Field. Original caption: Farmers hauling oats from field near Epworth, Iowa. Photos by T. W. Kines, Aug. 6, 1948. State: Iowa.

Vintage Photograph. Farmer rides tractor spraying pasture.

Men Clearing Site of Root Cellar. 1920 - 1965. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sisseton Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Vintage Photograph. Haying at Wenatchee Washington.

Vintage photograph. Farmer and horses getting ready for a corn harvest, Lower Waterford, Vermont. New England

Description: West Indies. 'The Howard Rotavator heavy duty tractor attachment clearing sugar cane trash in West Indies. This heavy duty Rotavator is indispensable for the preparation of land for the new sugar cane harvest, working the sugar cane trash into the soil and creating a fine tilth between the Old Stools when Ratooning, and for ploughing out the Old Stools whilst working in the trash when the crop is to be grown from new stools'. Photograph No.: ZZZ 48716 H. Official West Indies photograph compiled by Central Office of Information. Publicity statement on reverse. Location: West Indies Date: 1950 caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

Photo collection Government information service. Noordoostpolder, agriculture mechanical. undated. Noordoostpolder

Tractor-Drawn Potato Digger at work on Farm near Caribou, Maine, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, October 1940

Road Construction. 1939-05-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Amish Farmers Lancaster Pennsylvania USA

Farmer plowing a field with a tractor

A crew of four linemen install a new long distance telephone line through the flat landscape of western Kansas, Goodland, KS, 7/12/1949. (Photo by United States State Department/GG Vintage Images)

Equipment. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Farmer on tractor in a field and workers in background ca May 1942.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Momer-Strip Biak, Amsterdamsche Ballast me. 1950. Biak, Moker, Guinea

Farming (Branding). 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Transparency - Shearing sheep, SK, about 1922

Transparency - Threshing on the Prairies, AB, about 1915

Alliance, Nebraska: July, 1959 Harvesting wheat with Massey Harris Model 42 combines, doing 35 bushels per acre.

State highway official moving sharecroppers away from roadside to area between levee and Mississippi river, New Madrid County, Missouri, USA, Arthur Rothstein, U.S. Farm Security Administration, January 1939

Germany. Bauer with ox team while plowing (probably in the Alpine room)

Cuba, Holguin, Sugar Cane Harvest Machine With Archimedes Screw Mechanism To Gather The Canes

Vintage Photograph. Filling seed hopper.

Plowing near Gate of Samaria. 1934, Israel, Sabastiyah

The threshing of oats. Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Indiana , Clayton (Ind.), Indiana , Hendricks County, Threshing, Farming

United States: c. 1931 A U.S. Department of Agriculture photographer gets up high on a ladder for a photograph of the surrounding landscape.

Two Mexican Laborers, contracted by Planters, Emptying Bags of Cotton on Wagon on Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi, USA, Marion Post Wolcott for Farm Security Administration, October 1939

Transparency - Farm machinery (threshing or bailing), about 1930

Equipment. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

AGRICULTOR ARANDO CON MULA - FOTO AÑOS 70. Location: EXTERIOR. PROVINCIA. LA RIOJA. SPANIEN.

Farming. 1940-01-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Vintage Photograph. Hurrycane Harvester for the annual harvest of the sugar cane crop in Louisiana.

Men Working in Unidentified Wooded Area. 1920 - 1965. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sisseton Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Canecutter in Bedrijf, Anonymous, 1938 photograph Canecutter in operation on the Pesantren sugar factory at Kediri. Part of the Batomap with photos of machines from the N.V. Machinefabriek Braat in Surabaya intended for the Dutch sugar industry on Java, from the period 1917-1938. Java photographic support gelatin silver print Java

Creamery, Kerry County , Dairying, Carts & wagons, Horses, Cans. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

Tobacco plants curing in a barn while suspended over an old tractor, Madison County, NC

Old Farmall tractor. Scenes at an old cotton gin, Keo, AR, black and white

TRACTOR CON AROS EN VEZ DE RUEDAS PARA LOS ARROZALES. Location: EXTERIOR. LEBRIJA. Seville. SPAIN.

Description: Trinidad and Tobago. 'Sugar loading in the south of the island'. Photograph No.: ZZZ 73308 H. Official Trinidad and Tobago photograph compiled by Central Office of Information. Copyright hand stamp of Anne Bolt, Paddington, London, on reverse. Location: Trinidad and Tobago Date: 1948 caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

Man driving a tractor in the field, 1943

England, Wiltshire, Wiltshire. Man on tractor in Wiltshire farm. The word tractor comes from the Latin trahere meaning 'to pull'.

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