Cross-Sectional View of John Deere Model "B" Tractor, 1941

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Artifact Overview

Deere & Company released the streamlined Model B, styled by industrial designer, Henry Dreyfuss, in 1938. Farmers used it to pull a two-bottom plow, cultivate rows of corn or soybeans, power a mounted corn picker, and run a corn sheller off the belt-drive. This cross-sectional view from the operator's manual shows the 1941 version with rubber tires.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1941

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

77.110.9

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Deere & Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in

Cross-Sectional View of John Deere Model "B" Tractor, 1941