Advertisement from the Hesston Manufacturing Company, Hesston, Kansas
Creator: Hesston Manufacturing Company
Date: May 12, 1958
An advertisement from the Hesston Manufacturing Company in Hesston, Kansas. The company was incorporated on May 12, 1958. The avertisemnet includes three stapled pages of typed information including publication, date, size, and kind of ad and costs for color, publication cost, and ad setup cost. This publication funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Advertising summary for the Hesston Manufacturing Company, Hesston, Kansas
Creator: Hesston Manufacturing Company
Date: 1958
This is an advertising summary most likely for the Hesston Manufacturing Company in Hesston, Kansas. The monthly summary contains information for January, February, March, April, and May 1958. Sources include publications, fairs and shows, direct mail, and miscellaneous. Also included are advertising summary results for January 1 to June 1, 1958, listing publications, fairs and shows, direct mail and miscellaneous categories, as well as an alphabetical advertising key for 1958. This publication funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Aerial view of Hesston Corporation, Hesston, Kansas
Creator: Rorabaugh & Millsap Studio
Date: Around 1965
This photograph shows an aerial view of Hesston Corporation, an agricultural implement factory at Hesson, Kansas. Administrative offices are visible at left. The factory was located at the northeast corner of the intersection at Lincoln Avenue/Boulevard and Highway 81. This publication funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Aerial view of Hesston Corporation, Hesston, Kansas
Creator: Rorabaugh & Millsap Studio
Date: Around 1965
This photograph shows an aerial view of Hesston Corporation, an agricultural implement factory at Hesston, Kansas. Administrative offices are visible at left. The factory was located at the northeast corner of the intersection at Lincoln Avenue/Boulevard and Highway 81. This publication funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Aerial view of Hesston Corporation, Hesston, Kansas
Date: Around 1965
This photograph shows an aerial view facing east of Hesston Corporation, an agricultural implement factory at Hesson, Kansas. The factory was located at the northeast corner of the intersection at Lincoln Avenue/Boulevard and Highway 81. This publication funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Aerial view of Hesston Corporation, Hesston, Kansas
Date: Around 1961
This photograph shows an aerial view of Hesston Corporation, an agricultural implement factory at Hesson, Kansas, with the factory at upper left and the town of Hesston in the foreground. The factory was located at the northeast corner of the intersection at Lincoln Avenue/Boulevard and Highway 81. This publication funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Aerial view of Hesston Corporation, Hesston, Kansas
Creator: Rorabaugh & Millsap Studio
Date: Around 1965
This photograph shows an aerial view of Hesston Corporation, an agricultural implement factory at Hesson, Kansas. Administrative offices are visible at left. The factory was located at the northeast corner of the intersection at Lincoln Avenue/Boulevard and Highway 81. This publication funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Aerial view of Hesston Sales Company, Hesston, Kansas
Creator: Hesston Corporation
Date: March 1, 1950
This photograph is an aerial view of Hesston Sales Company's new and used implements in Hesston, Kansas. It also shows the sales pavilion and livestock pens that held sales every Tuesday. This publication funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Aeriel view of Hesston Corporation, Hesston, Kansas
Creator: Hesston Corporation
Date: 1986
This calendar photograph shows an aerial view of Hesston Corporation, an agricultural implement factory at Hesson, Kansas. Administrative offices are visible at left. The factory was located at the northeast corner of the intersection at Lincoln Avenue/Boulevard and Highway 81. Highway 81 is visible on the upper left and Lincoln Boulevard in the foreground at the bottom. This publication funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Agricultural equipment, Garden City, Finney County, Kansas
Creator: Wolf, Henry L. 1850-1924
Date: Between 1890 and 1900
The photograph shows the first steam powered plow in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas. The photograph also shows a man, who looks to be steering the plow while another man is riding on it. In the background of the photo there are a few buildings.

Agricultural scenes, Finney County, Kansas.
Creator: Wolf, Henry L. 1850-1924
Date: Between 1890 and 1900
This photograph shows different agricultural scenes on R. J. Mefford's farm west of Garden City in Finney County, Kansas.

Agriculture booklet
Creator: Farm and Industrial Equipment Institute (U.S.)
Date: 1971
This booklet by the president, Lyle E. Yost, of the Hesston Corporation discusses the agriculture industry in the United States of American. This publication funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Agriculture equipment, Marysville, Kansas
Creator: Hawkins, Omar F. (Omar Finlay), 1890-1967
Date: September, 1938
This is an elevated view of men examining agriculture equipment on display in the 700 block of Broadway Street in Marysville, Kansas. Also visible are people walking along the sidewalk, parked automobiles and a truck, and several businesses including Anderson-Boss Motor Company, Triangle Drugs & Sodas, Kraemer Hardware, Rialto Hotel, and Potter's Barbershop.

Alfonso Bouchey with haystacker in Maple Hill, Kansas
Date: Between 1901 and 1905
This photograph shows Alfonso Bouchey, left, inventor of a haystacking machine, with a model of his invention and his brother, Madie.

Angell disc plow advertising pamphlet
Creator: Ohio Cultivator Company
Date: Between 1930 and 1935
This is a pamphlet for the Angell disc plow, invented by C. J. Angell (Charles John/Charlie John), a wheat farmer from Plains, Kansas. It was manufactured by the Ohio Cultivator Company in Bellevue, Ohio. It contains testimonials from the following men from Plains, Kansas: J. D. Golliher, D. B. Baty, Clyde Atkinson, and W. W. Coons

Angell one-way disc plow
Creator: Kansas State Historical Society. Library and Archives Division
Date: Between 1975 and 1990
Charlie Angell, Sr. of Plains, Kansas, was a wheat farmer with a special knack for machines. In the 1920s, Angell sought to develop a plow that was particularly suited to the environmental conditions in the windy, semi-arid plains of western Kansas where he lived and farmed. Angell's idea was to set all the plow's discs at the same vertical angle on a single axel, which ensured that they each plowed in the same, single, direction. Because of this feature, the device became known as the "one-way" plow. It plowed faster, handled heavy stubble well, broke hard sun-baked soil, and destroyed weeds. Charles Angell built close to 500 plows on his Meade County farm, then sold the rights to the Ohio Cultivator Company.

Avery Manufacturing Company catalog
Creator: Avery Manufacturing Company
Date: 1906
This catalog was published by Avery Manufacturing Company advertising their engines, threshers, self feeders, pneumatic straw stackers, water tanks, and farm machinery. All of the pages of the catalog have illustrations and text about the equipment being advertised. There is an index on page 64 and the front and back covers are in color. The company was located in Peoria, Illinois, but it is assumed the catalog was distributed to Kansas farmers.

Bank, Kirwin, Kansas
Creator: Grant, George
Date: 1948
This black and white photograph provided by the National Park Service shows the abandoned bank and the International Harvester dealership in Kirwin, Kansas. The town of Kirwin is located along the Solomon River in the Smoky Hill River Basin of Phillips County.

Beet harvesting flyer
Creator: Hesston Corporation
Date: 1976
This equipment flyer from the Hesston Corporation, includes photographs, diagrams and text to represent a variety of models of the company's beet harvester. This publication funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Binding wheat with horse-drawn binder
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: June 29, 1912
Binding wheat on L.G. Brown's farm in Russell County, Kansas.

Businesses and agricultural equipment, Ramona, Kansas
Date: Between 1890 and 1909
A street view in Ramona, Kansas. Agricultural equipment is lined up along the street at harvesting time, and several business buildings are in view. Businesses visible include Strickler and Company General Merchandise, Grain, and Coal; a shoe store; a drug store; the Ramona State Bank; a hotel; and Canton P and O Plows. Several people are visible in front of the buildings.

Carrico Implement Company, Beloit, Kansas
Creator: Worley, Barry J
Date: June 1998
These photographs are part of the Kansas State Historical Society's online exhibit, "Wheat People: Celebrating Kansas Harvest." This exhibit focuses on the people who have built Kansas's agricultural reputation. In June 1998, the KSHS staff followed harvesters from the Oklahoma border to far northwestern Kansas. They photographed and interviewed families from the top twenty wheat-producing counties in Kansas. The photographs featured here are of the Carrico Implement Company in Beloit, Kansas. They sold, primarily, John Deere and New Holland machinery.

Combine Cylinder V-Bars equipment flyer, Hesston, Kansas
Creator: Hesston Manufacturing Company
Date: 1958
This is a Combine Cylinder V-Bars equipment flyer. Circa 1958. The flyer lists improvement parts and attachments for combines. Features noted include even feeding, smoother operation, requires less power, non-slugging, easier separation, less straw chopping, with more threshing surface on the same size cylinder.

Combine attachements flyer
Creator: Hesston Manufacturing Company
Date: [unknown date]
This flyer from the Hesston Manufacturing Company uses illustrations and text to represent different attachments designed to work with multiple Massey-Harris combines. This publication funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Combine attachements flyer
Creator: Hesston Manufacturing Company
Date: Undated
This flyer from the Hesston Manufacturing Company uses illustrations and text to represent different attachments designed to work with multiple combines. This publication funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.