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.

Early combine and header in a field in Greeley County, Kansas
Date: Between 1920 and 1930
A group of men pose in a wheat field in Greeley County, Kansas with a motorized tractor and a combine and header.

Farm equipment on Elmer Nicholson's farm near Jennings, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1920
This is a photograph showing Casey and Gladys Nicholson, Elmer and Christena Nicholson, and an unidentified child posed with two teams of horses and wagons. The Nicholson farm was located near Jennings, Kansas.

Harvesting kafir corn and loading a header barge
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1891 and 1912
This is a view of farmers harvesting kafir corn in Haskell County, Kansas. Robert Franklin (Frank) McCoy is in the foreground holding stalks of kafir corn. Visible in the background are two unidentified men with the horse-drawn harvester and header barge equipment.

Harvesting wheat possibly in Seward County, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1905 and 1910
This is a photograph showing farmers harvesting wheat, possibly in Seward County, Kansas.

Harvest on the George Washington Sloan farm in Sheridan County, Kansas
Date: 1897
This is a photograph showing a harvest scene on the George Washington Sloan farm in Sheridan County, Kansas.

Header barge and crew harvesting in Thomas County, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1909
This is a panoramic photograph of a wheat harvest crew with a header barge in Thomas County, Kansas. The crew is using both a team of horses and a tractor to pull their wagons.

Header-barge, Gray County, Kansas
Date: Between 1910 and 1919
This photograph shows a farmer using a header barge in Gray County, Kansas.

Header barge in a wheat field, Thomas County, Kansas
Date: 1900
This is a photograph of a group of workers stand in a wheat field in Thomas County, Kansas. Behind them is some harvesting equipment, including a thresher, a header barge, and teams of horses. The caption on the photograph says Franklin Lee, Hoxie, Kansas. Mr. Lee was a photographer, according to the 1900 census.

Heading wheat in Kiowa County, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1891 and 1903
View of farmers heading wheat in Kiowa County, Kansas. Horse-drawn harvesting equipment, and a couple seated in a horse-drawn carriage, are also visible in the photograph.

Hodgeman County, Kansas, harvest scene
Date: 1924
Hodgeman County harvest crew standing in the field with their equipment: an Aultman-Taylor tractor, a Deering header, and an Avery thresher and Republic thresher (1918 model). This photo was taken near Jetmore, Kansas.

L. W. Halbe collection
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: 1908-1912
The L. W. (Leslie Winfield) Halbe photo collection consists of 1500 glass plate negatives produced by Halbe during his teenage years. Halbe lived in Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas, and began taking photographs of the region with an inexpensive Sears and Roebuck camera when he was fifteen years old.

Scenes of Sherman County, Kansas
Date: 1890-1930
Multiple scenes of Sherman County, Kansas.

Scenes of Sherman County, Kansas
Date: 1890-1930
Multiple scenes of Sherman County, Kansas.

Scenes of Sherman County, Kansas
Date: 1890-1920
Multiple scenes of Sherman County, Kansas.

Scenes of Sherman County, Kansas
Date: 1890-1930
Multiple scenes of Sherman County, Kansas. In the photograph of lunch time for the harvest crew, Mrs. Ed Chatfield is the woman on the left and Ed Chatfield is the man at left sitting on top of the rail of the header barge.

Scenes of Sherman County, Kansas
Date: 1890-1938
Multiple scenes of Sherman County, Kansas.

Scenes of Sherman County, Kansas
Date: 1900-1945
Multiple scenes of Sherman County, Kansas.

Scenes of Sherman County, Kansas
Date: 1890-1930
Multiple scenes of Sherman County, Kansas.

Scenes of Sherman County, Kansas
Date: 1890-1930
Multiple scenes of Sherman County, Kansas.

Scenes of Sherman County, Kansas
Date: 1890-1940
Multiple scenes of Sherman County, Kansas.

Scenes of Sherman County, Kansas
Date: 1890-1960
Multiple scenes of Sherman County, Kansas.

Teams of horses, Comanche County, Kansas
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1893 and 1899
A photograph showing men hitching horses to harvesting equipment, Comanche County, Kansas.

Wheat harvest header barge and crew
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: Between 1891 and 1912
This is a view of a wheat harvest header barge, high on one side and low on the other, which was used to transport harvested bundles of wheat to the stack or to the threshing machine. Also visible are a man seated in an automobile, a farmhouse, windmill, and four men standing in the horse-drawn header barge.

Wheat harvest on the L. E. Wait Ranch
Creator: Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
Date: 1912
This is a view of women and men harvesting wheat on the L. E. Wait Ranch in Seward County, Kansas. Also visible are an automobile, horses, horse-drawn headers and barges, and a steam tractor.