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Farming - Wheat

2018-0513



Description: threshing scene with steam power, otherwise unidentified; this is a copy print of an older photo that was probably larger
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MLA filing: Farming - Wheat
Original size: 34 x 8 cm
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Note: Digitized by Weldon Schloneger, Dec. 2018, original at SA.III.430, elecrec/acc1228

2020-0021



Description: "Black laborers on threshing crews were few; this crew on the John P. Linscheid farm, Reno County, Kans., ca. 1915, was integrated. Linscheid, the farmer, holds a pitchfork with a black laborer."; postcard; tractor is a Rumley oil tractor; according the the MLA identifications, Edward H. Linscheid is holding the pitchfork, then next to him to the right are Alfred G. Linscheid and John P. Linscheid
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Arlington, Kansas
MLA filing: Farming - Wheat
Original size: 13 x 8 cm
Source: John P. Linscheid collection
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Note: used in Thomas D. Isern, Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs: Harvesting and Threshing on the North American Plains (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1990), p. 141. Caption comes from there.

2020-0022



Description: threshing crew at John P. Linscheid farm including both African-American and white workers; one copy has several names pencilled on the back who might be some of the people in the photo: Tom King, Otis? White, Henry King, R. L. Elliott, V. D. Peoples, Fred Martin; using a Rumley oil tractor; postcard
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Arlington, Kansas
MLA filing: Farming - Wheat
Original size: 13 x 8 cm
Source: John P. Linscheid collection
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2020-0023



Description: threshing wheat from header stacks at John P. Linscheid farm; postcard
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Arlington, Kansas
MLA filing: Farming - Wheat
Original size: 13 x 8 cm
Source: John P. Linscheid collection
Photographer:
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2020-0024



Description: threshing scene at John P. Linscheid farm; postcard
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Arlington, Kansas
MLA filing: Farming - Wheat
Original size: 13 x 8 cm
Source: John P. Linscheid collection
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