Threshing at the Mc Keever Farm six miles east of Worthington, Minnesota. W. P. Jenkins sitting in a horse drawn buggy between stacks of straw. A steam engine is running the thresher.
Threshing crew with steam engine, thresher, and bundle rack. Nick Scherer and Nathan Day at Quiggle farm, north of Amboy. Oscar Robinson on wheelbarrow.
A threshing team stands in front of steam driven farm equipment and horses. E. I. Olsen worked as a photographer in Ericson Township, Sacred Heart crica 1890 until 1920.
Several people are posed on a tractor and thresher with other people driving teams pulling wagons. A barn and a large pile of chaff are in the background.
Members of a threshing crew are posed in front of and on a steam tractor and thresher. The tractor and thresher have large metal wheels. There is a large pile of chaff in the background.
The smaller wagon next to the tractor collects the grain after it is run through the threshing machine. The threshing machine separates the grain from the straw, much like today's combine.
Albert Borth (5th from left, arms crossed) Threshing rig engine burned straw. 1921 Albert Borth - father of Mrs. Art (Lena) Asmus Asmus family came from Lester Prairie to Chokio 1896 Borth family came from Arlington, Minnesota to Chokio about 1900.
Photograph of the Steen family on their farm with Iver Pederson's threshing crew, posed by the threshing machine. This photograph was taken in 1909. The little boy is Conrad Steen, shown next to his parents, Carl August Williamson Steen and Annie (Peterson) Steen, with his sister Jennie standing nearby. Also depicted is Carl Steen's sister Anne Marie (Steen) Pederson. The photograph was taken during a coffee break.
Threshing grain required many people and lots of work. One man is pitching bundles into the threshing machine while the other is watching the steam engine.
Men are posed on farm equipment and also standing by bicycles. A team of horses is in the background. A tractor, with a saw blade mounted on the front, is pulling another piece of farm equipment.
Ten men with threshing equipment. Note on back of photograph says, "Norman family threshing rig. Left to right, George W. Norman (standing by horse) and Lee R. Norman (on the engine)."
A photograph of a threshing machine with Russel Gilbertson, Clifford Hanson, Gordy Johnson, Jim Ernst, Henry Hamann, Clarence Tinker, Rufus Ponto, Ed Schults, and Leslie Olson.
Several men and women pose for a picture out in the field where they are threshing. The women in their white aprons, have brought lunch out to the field for the men. Many horses and hay racks are being used to stack the hay.
A threshing crew and their thresher at the Henry Meyer farm in Oshawa Township in Nicollet County. The names of the men appear on the reverse of the photo. Henry is shown with a pipe in the front row. Dewey and Bud Meyer are the children seated at right in the front row.