Photos of family farms and ranches - and the people and animals who lived on them. Read more >>
Family farms - whether they are ranches, plantations, or the traditional farm - are the backbone of life around the world. These are photos of those homes, people, fields, and animals that comprise a farm. << Read less
Claus and his nephew, Gordan in front of Claus's corn crop. 1937
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Guy Wells and wife Alta Almira Augusta Olsen
Guy born 2/21/1886 in Momence, IL, died 1/7/1977 in Momence, IL
Married 4/2/1909 in Kankakee Co., IL
Buried Orchard Grove Cemetery, Lowell, Lake Co., IN
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Found in an antique store in Texas. Written on the back: "The Prause home north, northeast of Yoakum". This snapshot resembles some of my family's photos that were taken in the 1950s, so it may date from that era.
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A photo of MauRie Hileman with big squash.
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A photo of unknown people in a field - from the Humbard/ Clemmer family don't know who they are.
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A photo of Arthur Robins Melville
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A photo of the George W. Fegley Farm in South of Dalton, KS. Sadie Fegley DeVou and husband Harry DeVou in buggy. Alta, Carl, Gertrude, Erma, and Olga Fegley in other buggy. (Sadie married Harry after husband George passed away.) Note: what looks like a hill in background is actually a big pile of straw.
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Margaret and her father in their corn crop: photo taken ca. 1910 in Woodward, Oklahoma.
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A photo of Harry Lee Foster, Sr. (passed 1993)
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A photo of Lorenzo Dow Howell Jr., Blairsville IL farm, plowing with Kate and Jack
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A photo of James Clevenger
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A photo of R. W. "Bill" Woods, my Dad, hilling potatoes
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A photo of R. W. "Bill Woods", my Dad, hard at work ploughing at Richmond NSW in 1940
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This is a photo of my grandmother, Marian Olive Bills and her father, Henry Jarvis Bills ca. 1919 in Raton, New Mexico on their farm. Love her smile!!
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A photo of grain threshing in Oregon, taken 1870-1890. Dinnertime for threshers
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Lola Pabst getting ready to pick spuds in Lorenzo, Idaho in 1935 (age 15).
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A photo of Harvey Dettmer (1923 - 2014), farming.
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A photo of William Dettmer at The Cascade Threshing Company. The end of the Cascade Threshing Company run in 1920.
The company was organized in 1919 with the following members: Dick Kirchhoff, John Dill, Ben Gibson, Herman Mitchel, Earl Towle, Chris Johnson, William Dettmer, Andrew Olsen, and Paul E. Gerard.
This 25 horse power Reeves Engine, water wagon, and 36x56 Aultman-Taylor separator were purchased in 1919, second hand, in the Tekamah, Nebraska vicinity.
After using one year, the separator was discarded and a new 36x56 Minneapolis separator, shown in this picture, was purchased.
Pulling 9-16 inch plows in the Tekamah Gumbo Bottoms.
The engine was a cross compound equipped for plowing. It had heavy gears, each traction wheel was 3 feet wide, the front wheels, each 16 inches wide. A 3 inch siphoning hose, carried over the cab when not in use, enabled the engine to take water from the water wagon on the move. 2 side tanks and a rear tank under the coal bunk would hold over a ton of coal. It took about 3-12 barrel tanks of water to fill the boiler, the supply tanks and the water wagon, a ton of coal, everything greased, a good hot fire, and the engine was ready to roll. The engine weighed 15 tons empty.
William Dettmer, (kneeling and holding the collie mascot) Max, was the separator man; John Kirchhoff, the water-boy and by the front wheel, Paul Gerard, engineer.
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A photo of Elmer Dietrich Friedrich Dettmer
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A photo of Theodore Wilhelm Roos Farming
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A photo of Ora, Bessie, and Jessie Mauk on the Boiler place. Working hard !
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A photo of Levi Trivette with his prize winning turnips
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A photo of Mary Laravie at the family farm
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A photo of Kathleen (Pilcher) Bullen with farm animals
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A photo of Egbert Franklin Parrott (Uncle E.F.) working a team of horses. Mowing the river bottom on our farm.
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Photo of my great-great grandfather Alfred Goldin and my great grandfather Jim Goldin on the farm near Mellette, Spink County, South Dakota, in the early 1920's.
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Aunt Cynth Combs' barn and grave, John Walker inspecting barn.
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A photo of Nellie Enolia Smith at Chesrown farm
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A photo of the August Pletzer & Anna Pletzer
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A photo of Elza E Stewart
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A photo of David E. Vaughn, Fall of 1948. Tyronza, Arkansas. Tyronza is one of the oldest cities within Poinsett County . In the 1920s it was the site where the Southern Tenant Farmers movement started that became a national outcry against the abusive discrimination of wealthy land owners against sharecroppers who were mostly African-American farmers.
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Harley V. Smith, Nebraska Farmer.
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A photo of the Hill Family Farm...Emma Rachel Hill was born on November 5, 1874, in Georgia, her father, Marcus, was 38 and her mother, Medora, was 31. She married John Crenshaw Terry on December 27, 1894, in Murray, Georgia. She had three children by the time she was 26. She died on April 7, 1950, in Etowah, Tennessee, at the age of 75, and was buried there. She is pictured above with her husband and her 2 surviving children Erskin and Lois.
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Farm friend! John Victor Bauer on the farm!
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Grandma's Chickens: My grandma was blind, but she always had chickens. In this picture she is crumbling some cornbread for the baby chicks!
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