Horses pulling a thresher to their next job
Title
Horses pulling a thresher to their next job
Description
Black and white image of a team of eight horses pulling a threshing machine through an empty field. One man sits on top of the thresher, while another holds the reins at the front of the machine. On the other side of the team of horses, an automobile with two men inside also drives through the field. Farmers rarely owned their own machinery; instead, large crews of itinerant laborers travelled up and down the Columbia River Basin during harvest season, following a machine owner to the various farms and working for several days to harvest and thresh the farmers' crops. Museum records do not identify a location for this image, which is part of the Herbert McMullen bequest. McMullen was a local photographer who also collected photographs and images from around the area.
Date Created
circa 1900s-1910s
Subject
Medium
negatives
Identifier
WCMpic_013528
Rights
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Type
Still Image