A tall-tale postcard showing horses pulling wagons loaded with oversized potatoes and corn. A man sits atop the lead wagon and holds the reins. Tall-tale postcards use photographic montage to create images of oversized produce and animals. Fruits, vegetables and fish are the most common subjects.
Two men unload an over-sized onion from a wagon while a third man watches. In the field are two large piles of onions. Tall-tale postcards use photographic montage to create images of over-sized produce and animals. Fruits, vegetables and fish are the most common subjects.
Unloading flax bales at the Schweitzer's Flax plant in Windom with the use of an elevator. Two men stand on top of the bales stacking with hooks as they come up the elevator from the truck below.
Four men digging a narrow ditch for tile to be placed. One man stands above placing tile with a long handled tool. One man in the background is laying out the tile.
A stereograph showing farmers making hay with a stacker and two sets of hay sweeps on the farm of John French near Mountain Lake. Two men atand on top of the hay stack. Horses pull the sweep while a man sits on it.
A threshing scene on the Gold Field Farm of C. W. Stark. The farm site includes a house, windmill and several outbuildings with threshing in foreground.
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.
Ten horses lined up in front of the barn at the Gust Youngren farm north of Windom. In the background is Harder Lake. A lone chicken in the foreground pecks at the ground.
Tractors (4), wagons (3), and elevators sit in a harvested field with the corn piles to the right. Paul Benson farm is located one mile south and one mile east of Storden. Hans William Hanson farmed the land and Ole Thompson shelled the corn.
Log cabin with window to right of center door and fence in front. It was built in 1878 by Pat Conlan who was an early homesteader in Cottonwood County.