Harvesting Wheat with Tractor and Combine, Belleville, Michigan, July 1936
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Artifact Overview
It took hundreds of years to perfect machinery that could combine the three major steps of harvesting grain: reaping, or cutting the crop; threshing to loosen the grain from the chaff; and disposing of the straw while retaining the grain. This image shows a tractor-drawn "combine" harvesting wheat in 1936. Around this time, manufacturers finally introduced labor-saving self-propelled combines.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
13 July 1936
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.P.188.16956.B
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in
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