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Reaping Hook or Sickle
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The sickle was used to cut the grain during the harvesting process. It was then threshed with a wooden flail and cleaned by tossing it into the air with a fork.
Harvesting Corn with Horses
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Piles of corn ears lie on the ground of a harvest row. A team of horses stands at the end of the row of harvested corn and the rest of the unharvested field is on the left.
Corn head on John Deere combine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The corn head of a 9600 John Deere combine during the 1995 harvest.
Single Row Corn Picker about 1935
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A single row corn picker machine helps harvest the crop in a McLean County field about 1935.
Adjusting belt on combine in October 1995
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Darrell Beehn, Jr. adjusts a belt on a John Deere 4400 combine in October 1995.
Combine on Murphy Farms
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A 930 Pixall Combine harvests corn and throws it into a wagon at Murphy Farms in 1995.
Harvesting Corn on Funk Trust Farm
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A Cat Challenger grain cart and combine work in a cornfield on Funk Trust Farm near Shirley, Illinois, in October 1995.
V23272--Evolution of the Sickle and Flail--33--Horse harvester at Walla Walla, Washington
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white stereograph slide of a horse harvester in Walla Walla, Washington.
Horse Drawn Corn Picker
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A horse drawn corn picker harvests the crop in the early 1900s in McLean County.
Combining corn
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In a John Deere 4400 combine, Darrell Beehn harvests corn near Shirley, Illinois, in September 1995.
Men in corn wagons
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Two men in overalls sit in wooden wagons full of corn as horses pull them.
Farmer in field pulled by horses
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A farmer, pulled by two horses, harvests a field before combines were popular. His barn and residence are in the background.

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Reaping Hook or Sickle

Harvesting Corn with Horses

Corn head on John Deere combine

Single Row Corn Picker about 1935

Adjusting belt on combine in October 1995

Combine on Murphy Farms

Harvesting Corn on Funk Trust Farm

V23272--Evolution of the Sickle and Flail--33--Horse harvester at Walla Walla, Washington

Horse Drawn Corn Picker

Combining corn

Men in corn wagons

Farmer in field pulled by horses

Reaping Hook or Sickle

Harvesting Corn with Horses

Corn head on John Deere combine

Single Row Corn Picker about 1935

Adjusting belt on combine in October 1995

Combine on Murphy Farms

Harvesting Corn on Funk Trust Farm

V23272--Evolution of the Sickle and Flail--33--Horse harvester at Walla Walla, Washington

Horse Drawn Corn Picker

Combining corn

Men in corn wagons

Farmer in field pulled by horses