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[Farming Equipment on Bell Farm]

Cropped copy-photograph of farming equipment in a field on Bell Farm. Two men are gathered around a tractor, with threshers surround it.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Bell/Whittington Public Library

[Threshing at Bud Guest's Farm]

Photograph of a man riding on a horse-drawn thresher. In this image, the horses are pulling the machine through the fields at Bud Guest's farm in Mayville, Michigan.

Date: August 10, 1968

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Rice threshing near Beaumont, Texas]

Postcard of rice threshing near Beaumont, Texas with at least seven African American men, a mule-drawn carriage, bags, rice, and machinery. On the right side of the postcard can be seen the threshing machine separating the grain from the stalks. Men are standing near the thresher as well as on and near a mule drawn cart between a pile of grain and bags. Another cart can be seen on the right side of the postcard. On the top right of the postcard is printed "Rice Threshing near Beaumont, Texas." … more

Date: 1926

Creator: D. J. Hicks

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Tyrrell Historical Library

The Junior Historian, Volume 28, Number 3, December 1967

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.

Date: December 1967

Creator: Texas State Historical Association

Item Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter

Partner: Texas State Historical Association

Threshing Crew

Copy negative of four men of a threshing crew standing in front of the machine. The men are, from left to right, Lester Jenkins, Clarence Vineyard, Joe Vineyard, and Joe Brewster.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Men by Meal Shed

Copy negative of a threshing crew standing around a meal shed. The men are lined up on each side, and there are four standing in front.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Crops at Miles and Winters, Texas

Photograph of a field being harvested. In the middle is a unit of equipment, including a harvester, tractor, and a grain truck.

Date: 1959

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Photograph of Wheat Harvesting]

Photograph of several horse-drawn wheat harvest implements being used in the field. Note written in blue ink on the front reads, "Powers Wheat Harvest."

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

Threshing Machine Crew

Copy negative of Earl Wallace, a threshing machine and a threshing machine crew. There are about twenty men in all, most wearing hats and overalls and holding tools. They are standing on or near the thresher. In the background are tall trees.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Photograph of Thresher and Workers]

Copy negative of a thresher and crew working in Jake Carter's field, with a tractor, horses, and more workers in the background, during the early twentieth century.

Date: April 17, 1972

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Dublin Historical Museum

[Photograph of Thresher and Workers]

Copy negative of an early twentieth century thresher and crew working in Jake Carter's field, with more men, horses, and a tractor in the background.

Date: April 17, 1972

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Dublin Historical Museum

[Field with a pile of stalks, 2]

Photograph of field with threshing machine, wagons, and tractors. Small hay bundles and scattered in field in right side of photograph and a hay mound is visible in left side of photograph.

Date: 19XX

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Haden's Flour truck, 3]

Photograph of Haden's Flour truck "Kneaded Every Hour". Threshing machine and hay producing grain in right side of photograph with workhorses and farmhands. Left side of photograph shows a pavilion and automobiles parked under the trees.

Date: 19XX

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Haden's Flour truck, 2]

Date: 19XX

Creator: Clark, Joe

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Machine for Threshing Grain in the Field.

Patent for a machine that collects swaths of grain for threshing using hooked teeth arranged in rows, including illustration.

Date: April 14, 1857

Creator: Wilson, J. C. & Wilson, T. G.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Binding Grain

Patent for improvement in machines for binding grain for reapers.

Date: February 13, 1875

Creator: Tucker, Argyle W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Threshing-Machine.

Patent for improvements in threshing-machine for threshing grain, with the improved machine, “grain may be threshed and separated from the straw in a very rapid and perfect manner, and without bruising or injuring the straw in any way.” (Lines 13-16) Illustration is included.

Date: February 9, 1869

Creator: Fuos, Matthias

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Thrashing-Machines.

Patent for "new and useful improvements on machinery for thrashing various kinds of grain, whereby the work is performed in a very rapid and perfect manner, without impairing the straw." (lines 28-32) Instructions and illustrations are included.

Date: September 13, 1870

Creator: Fuos, Matthias

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Field Threshing-Machine.

Patent for "a new threshing-machine, which is arranged upon wheels, so that it can be drawn over the field" (lines 12-15) and make the process for which it was built: more efficient. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.

Date: December 31, 1867

Creator: Tucker, A. W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Threshing Machine

Patent for machine adapted to operate upon maize, Kafir corn, cane, and the like so as to effectively remove or rub off the seed or grains, without crushing or breaking the same.

Date: January 6, 1914

Creator: Newsom, John W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Band-Cutting Feeders for Thrashing-Machines.

Patent for improvements in the design of band-cutters and feeders for thrashing machines, including instructions and illustrations.

Date: January 15, 1878

Creator: Andrews, Henry K.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Combined Planter, Cultivator, and Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for an improved combined planter, cultivator, and cotton-chopping tool with design specifications and directions for the usage of the tool, including illustrations.

Date: June 11, 1878

Creator: Sarlls, Rutus & Kelman, Alexander

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Threshing-Mashine

Patent for a threshing machine. Illustrations included.

Date: May 5, 1908

Creator: Sanders, John

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement In Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press

Patent for a press used in the baling of hay or cotton. Device is portable and supposed to improve the baling process.

Date: February 23, 1875

Creator: Bennett, Thomas B. & Rancier, Edwin J.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department