Exline Family Home

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The home and the individuals in the photograph are not identified. Individuals in the photograph are displayed in continuous rotation on the left.

Harvesting Wheat

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This group of farmers is from the Exline Collection. Not one of the individuals in this photograph has been identified. The date is unknown but is probably between 1880 and 1900. There are six horses across, pulling four to a line, for a total of 24 horses working the combine.

Operator

Oiler

The two individuals (oiler) are standing at the extreme right of the large photogrpah. Both individuals are unidentified.

Loader

This unidentified individual (operator) is operating a tool for lifting the wheat onto the wagon. He is standing centered on the wagon.

Driver - Harvester

he wagon driver of the harvester is the last individual on the wagon. He is sitting in a seat which is attained by climbing a set of steps attached to the wagon. The driver’s seating was probably situated this way to keep him elevated enough that he could control the 24 working horses. This must have seemed very precarious to any driver.

Driver - Wagon Being Loaded

The loader is shown above-center hanging on something which looks to be a load platform sticking out behind the driver. This may be the place where the filled grain sacks are located so this individual can move them to the collector wagon. He is standing on a second wagon being loaded. The wagon’s driver is to the left and centered in the photograph; about on the line of the left end of the background hay stack.

Driver - Loaded Wagon

The final individual in the photograph is seen sitting on filled wheat sacks. He looks to be the driver of a loaded wagon which has collected the filled sacks from the harvester. Harvesting was labor intensive during the late nineteenth and earlier twentiety centuries.