A Reeves steam tractor turning virgin sod
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1891 and 1912
This is a view of a large Reeves steam tractor plowing prairie land to turn up sod.

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.

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.

Arno Knox farm, McAllaster, Logan County, Kansas
Date: Between 1915 and 1925
This series of photographs shows different perspectives of men and horses polwing and planting on Arno Knox's farm near McAllaster in Logan County, Kansas.

Arno Knox threshing rig and first tractor, Logan County, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1929
This photograph represents Arno Know with his first tractor and threshing rig in Logan County, Kansas.

Auto converted for plowing
Date: 1916
This sepia colored photograph shows a group of men gathered around an automobile that has been converted for plowing purposes. The vehicle has a 1916 Kansas license plate.

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.

Avery tractor and other wheat harvest equipment in a field in Thomas County, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1930
A group of harvest workers pose with an Avery tractor and other harvest equipment in a field in Thomas County, Kansas.

Bob Athon seated on a John Deere "B" tractor
Date: Between 1945 and 1950
This is a photograph showing Bob Athon seated on a John Deere "B" tractor on Nathaniel Dean Athon's farm in Osage County, Kansas. People in the photograph are (left to right) Hallie Lanning Athon, Eva Lanning Green, Bob Athon (on the tractor), Nathaniel Dean Athon, Frank Athon and Mabel Athon.

Breaking sod and seeding wheat in a field, Logan County, Kansas
Date: 1909
Photographs showing a steam tractor and plow being used to break sod and seed wheat in a field in Logan County, Kansas.

Breaking sod, western Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1925
This black and white photograph shows a steam tractor breaking sod in western Kansas as a group of men and two children look on. The men standing on the plow are raising and lowering the implement as it turns the soil.

Breaking sod with a tractor, Greeley County, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1930
A farm crew uses a coal burning Case tractor to break sod in a field in Greeley County, Kansas.

Canton, Kansas
Creator: Lomax, Hugh
Date: 1929
This film presents silent footage of Canton, Kansas. Beginning with a steam engine pulling into a railroad depot, the film features many street scenes, people, schools and other small town scenes. It shows many people entering and leaving the post office or general store. It also shows many school children playing games on the playground and mothers with infants.

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.

Case tractor, Hutchinson, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This black and white photograph shows a Case tractor "doing stunts" at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, Kansas.

Chase County farmers
Date: 1933-1948
These photographs show farmers in Chase County, Kansas, including Ross Ritchie, engaged in plowing, planting, and pest control. These photographs originally appeared in the Chase County Extension Office annual reports.

Colby Plow Boy photograph
Date: 1880 - 1960
This photograph shows a Colby Plow Boy manufactured by the Jones Manufacturing Company from 1919-1910 in Colby, Thomas County, Kansas.

Composite photograph showing scenes near Garden City, Kansas
Creator: Wolf, Henry L. 1850-1924
Date: Between 1900 and 1905
A composite photograph showing a steam tractor and plow, three binders at work, a wheat field, irrigation canal gates, a farm, bison, a tree claim, product exhibit at the county fair, and the U. S. Experimental farm near Garden City, Kansas.

Crawshaw family farming equipment, Maple Hill, Kansas
Date: 1910-1915
Three photographs of Albert and Richard Crawshaw operating farming equipment to harvest wheat near Maple Hill, Kansas.

Cultivating trees in Pratt County, Kansas
Date: June 1936
A photograph showing a farmer cultivating trees planted for a shelterbelt in Pratt County, Kansas. The trees were planted March, 1935.

Discing a field, Edwards County
Date: 1909
This photograph represents men, women and children operating a steam traction engine pulling a one-way plow while discing a field in Edwards County, Kansas. The other agricultural equipment shown in the photograph is a water wagon pulled by horses.

Doty's Avenue east of Garden City and a steam plow near Garden City, Kansas
Creator: Wolf, Henry L. 1850-1924
Date: Between 1900 and 1905
A composite photograph showing Doty's Avenue east of Garden City and a steam powered tractor and plow near Garden City, Kansas. Visible in both photographs are horse drawn carriages.