1912 threshing crew, Butler County, Kansas
Date: 1912
This photograph shows a Butler County threshing crew posing with their equipment and mules. Standing third from the left of the largest wheel is Oscar L. Griffith, owner. This publication was funded in part by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

A collection of horse-drawn agricultural machinery, Greeley County, Kansas.
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
Two horses and a collection of horse-drawn agricultural machinery sit in a wooded area of Greeley County, Kansas. Machinery viewed includes a McCormick planter, a dump rake, a mower, and a plow.

Adolph Maas' threshing crew, Alma, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
A photograph of a crew threshing wheat at the Adolph Maas farm in Alma, Kansas. The crew uses a large steam engine fueled with wood that is carried in a short wagon behind the tractor.

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 spray plane
Creator: Hetzel Photo Lab, Dodge City, Kansas
Date: Between 1940 and 1950
This black and white photograph shows a field being sprayed for noxious weeds by an aerial spray plane using 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. The spray, commonly called 2,4-D, is a pesticide/herbicide used to control broadleaf weeds. In the foreground, a man can be seen carrying items across a field.

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 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
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
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 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.

A field of wheat, Kearney [Kearny] County, Kansas
Creator: Wolf, Henry L. 1850-1924
Date: Between 1890 and 1900
This photograph shows a field of wheat and a binder pulled by several horses in Kearny County, Kansas.

Aftermath of a dust storm in Kansas
Date: Between 1934 and 1936
This photograph shows agricultural equipment covered with dust after a storm, possibly in Scott County, Kansas.

Agricultural classes, Haskell Institute
Date: Between 1916 and 1940
The two photographs show students in Haskell Institute's agricultural classes. One photograph has a student sitting on a Cleveland tractor, the other photograph has a student driving a hauling truck. Established in 1884 as the Indian Industrial Training School, Haskell Institute evolved into what is now Haskell Indian Nations University.

Agricultural development, wealth and rural population of the states on the tributory to the Union Pacific Railroad for the years of 1900-1910
Creator: Union Pacific Railway Company
Date: September 17, 1912
Union Pacific Railroad Company Agricultural Bulletin (No. 104). Union Pacific Railroad promotional advertisement showing aggregate statistical wealth values and population figures for areas west of the Mississippi River during a ten year period of time.

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 machinery in a field in Greeley County, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1930
A collection of agricultural machinery sits in a field in Greeley County, Kansas. On display are a Rumely tractor, a stacker, a header, and a cook shack. The farm is not identified.

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.

A group of men pose with a tractor in a field in Thomas County, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
A group of men, one holding a baby, pose with a tractor in a field in Thomas County, Kansas.

Albert and Emile Martinek and their 1917 Mogul tractor, Rossville, Kansas
Date: 1923
Albert and Emile Martinek pulling out hedge stumps with their 1917 Mogul tractor in March 1923. This photograph is provided through a pilot project to host unique cultural heritage materials from local libraries on Kansas Memory and was accomplished by mutual agreement between the Northeast Kansas Library System, the Rossville Community Library, and the Kansas Historical Society.

American Agriculture Movement protest in Washington, D. C.
Creator: Anderson, Marsha
Date: February 05, 1979
A photograph of a burned tractor near the capitol in Washington, D.C. Vernon Deines and others from Kansas transported the tractor to Washington and set it on fire as part of the American Agriculture Movement protesting unfair crop prices. On February 5, 1979, thousands of farmers and tractors converged on the city. Before the day was out, 19 farmers had been arrested, 17 tractors impounded, and police had penned the farmers into an involuntary prison camp on the Washington Mall.