Workers with Best Manufacturing Company Steam Tractor and Combine Harvester, circa 1896
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Some agricultural steam engines had to be hauled from farm to farm by teams of horses. Some - like the one pictured here - moved under their own power. This self-propelled traction engine hauls a combine harvester. The colossal duo aided farmers tremendously at harvest time--simultaneously cutting the crop, loosening the grain, and separating the grain from the chaff.
Some agricultural steam engines had to be hauled from farm to farm by teams of horses. Some - like the one pictured here - moved under their own power. This self-propelled traction engine hauls a combine harvester. The colossal duo aided farmers tremendously at harvest time--simultaneously cutting the crop, loosening the grain, and separating the grain from the chaff.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1896
Keywords
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
80.130.5
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in
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