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Portion of an advertisement for horse-powered machinery depicts a team on treadmill with the company's patented "endless chain railway." Its purpose was to process harvested grains like wheat or barley and eliminate the arduous work of separating…

Dressing flax was a complicated, labor-intensive process to remove seeds and stems so as to separate out the plant's valuable fibers. This image appears in an extensive advertisement for a mechanical dresser--or rather, three different models--that…

Illustration accompanies a suggestion by editor of the Country Gentleman, perhaps Luther Tucker, as to a simple and cheap method for picking apples. Its extremely detailed description appears overly fussy, yet shows the careful thought behind even…

Two horses and a farmer working the fields.

Advertisement depicts farm apparatus manufactured by P.D. Wright of Rochester, NY. It was designed to rake hay, which needs to dry after cutting but is susceptible to rain--thus, raking and baling the hay quickly was important. In Western New York, a…

Prior to the 1800s, corn was planted by hand in hillocks or rows. Industrial technologies profoundly affected agriculture with many patent machines like this horse-drawn planter designed by Calvin Olds. In a language typical for other devices of the…

Originally entitled, "Mrs. Moore (Carl's Mother) & Roy Gibson (Tomato Series A) Moore Camp, Steuben", under number 449, Mrs. Moore and Roy Gibson, sort through tomatoes with gloves after they are processed through a machine in Moore Camp on Gibson…