A World War I British Army truck powers its way through battlefield mud in an artist’s conception of the first mass-produced four-wheel drive vehicle. Orders for hundreds of these trucks put the ...

This idealized vision of a tobacco field does not reflect the time and toil exerted to create a sterilized planting bed. How did twentieth-century tobacco growers prepare beds for planting tobacco?

A front view of the Thelemann Thieman tractor shows the tubular frame and chrome shrouding normally found on a Ford Model A, the donor of the engine. This brochure touts the Thieman tractor as "A farm ...

This New Holland Model 320 is representative of later, more streamlined hay balers that used an in-line plunger. The New Holland Model 66, introduced in 1953, was the industry's first PTO-powered ...

A rare Massey-Harris Model 50, a product resulting from the dealer friction caused by the Massey-Harris/Ferguson merger. M-H dealers wanted a tractor like the Ferguson 35, so M-H sheet metal was added ...

The use of a pretty face has a long and successful history in the field of commercial art. Here, the image of a sweet country girl is used to market cream separators. In an effort to compete with ...

This issue of the Iron-Men Album brings us to the 10th installment of Dr. Bixler’s history of the Aultman & Taylor Company, as edited by Dr. Robert T. Rhode. The Album is serializing Dr. Bixler’s book ...

This One Minute grain grader and cleaner was made in Newton, Iowa, and came with a removable hand crank so the machine could be powered with a special drive attachment. The end view of the Viking mill ...

This Tournadozer, also owned by Bolander & Sons and at work on the same job, fills around a culvert as a CGW freight train whizzes by. Farm Collector is supposed to be about farm stuff, right? However ...

David Ballinger tweaks a 6-volt Wincharger Model 611, part of his Wincharger display at the 2003 Midwest Old Threshers Reunion, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. "My dad had always wanted to find a Wincharger, so ...

Jethro Tull demonstrating his seed drill to skeptical bystanders. In the upper right, three men can be seen broadcasting seed in an adjacent field by hand. Mural by A.R. Thomson. Image courtesy ...

The Great Depression that caused so much trouble in the world during the 1930s ended only with the boom caused by World War II. For American farmers however, the downturn began shortly after World War ...