Learn about the history of John Deere newsprint advertisements, and see how these ads reflect the company's own manufacturing ...

Hear the story of how Heinrich Johann Herickhoff became Henry John, proud to be an American, with his John Deere collection ...

Learn about the history of the hay press, with a special focus on those presses that went to work before engines were a common sight on farms.

State and county fairs have long been a popular venue for tractor manufacturers to show off the latest and greatest. This Oliver 88 – a 1948 model – came along well after 1937, when the Oliver Farm ...

After being at the scene of the bridge accident in 1882 and told about the boiler explosion in 1884, what indescribable thing was there about a steam engine which caused me to have a desire to operate ...

The Port Huron Longfellow owned and reconditioned by Elmer Heiland of Anna, Ohio. This was taken at their Reunion last year. The engine is perfect in condition and looks. The question is often asked ...

Four score years ago, Harry Bahel was a Sawyer, tending the great white cork pine logs as they were sliced into lumber by the whining circular saw in an Arcadin Township Mill in Lapeer County Michigan ...

12498 14th Ave. N. Haney, B.C., Canada The Bryan light steam tractor was made about 1920, until depression days in 1933 when lots of good companies folded up. This tractor was made by the Bryan ...

To the farmer, the invention of the tractor was almost as important as the invention of the reaper. It was Cyrus Hall McCormick’s reaper, introduced in 1831, that initiated the power farming era, when ...

A 1963 CJ5 equipped with a 1946 Newgren hydraulic lift. Eighty years ago, a new kind of vehicle drove into the world. Months before the U.S. entered into World War II, military leaders had a plan to ...

Shely fiber breaker. More than 120,000 pounds of hemp fiber was needed to rig the 44-gun USS Constitution, America’s oldest Navy ship affectionately called “Old Ironsides.” Nearly 55 tons of fiber was ...

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 ...