Historical Farming Techniques

Images depicting various farming methods from the 1940s to the 1970s, featuring corn harvesting, tractor use, and vintage agricultural scenes.

1970s MAN RIDING TRACTOR ACROSS FIELD HARVESTING LOADING LOOSE CUT HAY INTO FARM WAGON

Ruth series Threshing floor, winnowing, 1898, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

1970s MAN RIDING TRACTOR ACROSS FIELD HARVESTING LOADING LOOSE CUT HAY INTO FARM WAGON

Amish farmer of Paradise, PA spreads liquid manure from his pond on his dairy farm.

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Wheel of the agricultural tractor during a work day in the fields

Workers Harvesting Potatoes, San Luis Valley, Rio Grande County, Colorado, USA, Arthur Rothstein for Farm Security Administration, October 1939

Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection of photo collection prints Anefo Rousel, photo number 157-0472. 1956

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Thresher. undated

Harvesting oats, south-eastern Georgia. Photographer Marion Post Walcott, (1910-1990). ca. 1940. Colour

Panoramic view of wheat fields in the American Midwest, c. 1900. Three horse-drawn reaper-binders, operate in tandem to cut and bundle grain stems on a large field. The bundled grain will be gathered for the next operation, the threshing machine, which will separate the husks (chaff), from the edible grain (BSLOC_2019_8_202)

Photograph of a Farm owned by James Pompey Southington, Connecticut. People of Finnish, Slav, German, and Polish extraction help him to farm it 1942.

USA, Oregon, Tillamook. Antique farm machinery.

James A. McGuffey, Farmer, Plowing Field, Irwinville Farms Project, Irwinville, Georgia, USA, John Vachon for Farm Security Administration, May 1938

Farmers Spreading Fertilizer farm 4-Mule Team Wagon, Georgia, Marion Post Wolcott for Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information, 1940

Lawrence, Kansas: November, 1961 A farmer is squeezing in the last bit of work in the corn field as the sun has set over the countryside.

Agriculture in the Ruhr while weather, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Elsevier photo collection. August .... harvesting month corn sheaf agricultural machine. August 4, 1953

Man and his wife using a horse to pull a plow on a rural farm within the Gauja National Park area of Latvia.

A farmer sowing by hand in a plowed field, Umbria, Italy.

Vintage Photograph. Farmer loading seeds into a tractor's planter for efficient agricultural planting.

Workers Chopping Cotton on Rented Land near White Plains, Greene County, Georgia, USA, Jack Delano for Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information, June 1941

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

Irrigation system is configured to move in a straight line, this will help farmers use their rectangular fields to the maximum.

Cut Tree and Tractor

163 Highland Ave , Construction equipment, Land vehicles. Needham Building Collection

Reed cutting, reed cutters cutting coastal reed, Cley Marshes, Cley-next-the-sea, Norfolk, England, winter

Wheel Fence

Rodeo at small town New Mexico Fair October 1940.

Mexico, Puebla, North America. A man plows his fields to sow broccolli.

Future Farmers of America

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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

Clover Farmer on Seed Threshing Machine, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, USA, Carl Mydans for U.S. Resettlement Administration, June 1936

Transparency - Tractor pulling a harvester, Prairies, about 1930

Two Workers Taking Burley Tobacco from the Fields after it had been cut, to dry and cure in barn, Russell Spears Farm, near Lexington Kentucky, USA, Post Wolcott for Farm Security Administration, September 1940

GABON Ndjole Industry. Row of trees cut down by loggers for the timber industry..

Huge pile of old auto tires between meadow

Elsevier photo collection. Grain mowed mowers Haarlemmermeer. September 6, 1956. Haarlemmermeer

Migratory Workers Repairing Car Outside of their Shelter, Osceola Migratory Camp, Belle Glade, Florida, USA, Marion Post Wolcott for Farm Security Administration, June 1940

View from the top of the tractor looking toward the barn of a family dairy farm in Keymar, Maryland.

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USA, Eastern Washington State. Old machinery and old building in field of grass with cloudy sky.

Vintage Photograph. Old farmhouse with vintage farming equipment in a rural landscape.

163 Highland Ave , Construction equipment, Land vehicles. Needham Building Collection

Farmer standing in Field of Wheat, during Harvest, Nebraska, USA, Warren K. Leffler, US News & World Report Magazine Collection, July 1959

Men using horse drawn plow on Amish Farm, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA

la trilla implement used in traditional agriculture to cut up straw after cereal harvest spain

Golden sunset over a serene farmland with an old combine harvester

Farmer Sitting on Sacks of Potatoes, Rio Grande Valley, Colorado, USA, Arthur Rothstein for Farm Security Administration, October 1939

Wheat farming in China

USA, Washington State, Whitman County, Palouse. Harvesting wheat. Old fashioned threshing farm equipment. (Editorial Use Only)

Amish farmer spreading liquid manure from his cows on a corn field that was recently harvested on his farm in Oxford, PA.

Man in wind blown maturing winter wheat field, with grain storage structure in the background, near Carey, Manitoba, Canada

Plowing, Children's Literature

Vintage photograph. Combines in field harvesting wheat for International Harvester Co.

Buckeye in Action, Farm Machinery

AMISH FARMER CULTIVATING WITH TEAM OF SIX MULES PENNSYLVANIA

Stanley Mazur, after Olof Krans, Harvesting with Grain Cradles, c 1939 Harvesting with Grain Cradles

Farmer driving tractor, harvesting crop in sunny rural countryside

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