When this country was new and farming meant the difference between life and starvation, the men and women who tilled the ground planted winter heat, tended it through the spring and prepared for the ...

Hopkins, today, is easy to shrug off as just another suburb in the westward sprawl. But its history and growth are well-defined as the longtime home of an innovative, all-but-forgotten farm machinery ...

When mid-August rolls around, my thoughts always revert back to harvest time back in the 1940s and 1950s when this aging writer was a youth eager to take on any task asked of him. The old threshing ...

Dennis bought this working machine in 1978. It was originally sold at the Bath and West Show in 1929. The machine was built in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire and is made of oak and ash. It can still ...

Kenosha, hit hard by factory shutdowns, is reinventing itself. But questions of affordability loom large. Kenosha, hit hard by factory shutdowns, is reinventing itself. But questions of affordability ...

Bob Nesselroad, a volunteer at Living History Farms in Des Moines, Iowa, stands on an antique steam tractor during a threshing demonstration in August 2022. (Rox Laird/Courthouse News) (CN) — ...

When farmer Robert Hines took possession of a steam engine to power his threshing machine on December 9, 1889, he joined the cutting edge of Victorian technology. He and his team spent harvest time ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Ronald Miller of Geneseo, Illinois, ...

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