The Great Depression that caused so much trouble in the world during the 1930s ended only with the boom caused by World War II. For American farmers however, the downturn began shortly after World War ...

This New Holland Model 320 is representative of later, more streamlined hay balers that used an in-line plunger. The New Holland Model 66, introduced in 1953, was the industry's first PTO-powered ...

Farm applications were just a few of the ways the Willys marketing department envisioned Jeeps in use in the post-war 1940s. Illustrations in this 1946 ad present the Jeep as a freight hauler, ...

The use of a pretty face has a long and successful history in the field of commercial art. Here, the image of a sweet country girl is used to market cream separators. In an effort to compete with ...

Shely fiber breaker. More than 120,000 pounds of hemp fiber was needed to rig the 44-gun USS Constitution, America’s oldest Navy ship affectionately called “Old Ironsides.” Nearly 55 tons of fiber was ...

I’m not a Massey collector, but I do have the one my dad bought new in 1948 when I was 11 years old. It was fixed up so that it ran decent and looked good in 2006. Since then, it has been on about ...

Five people were killed as the result of the explosion of a Case 110 steam traction engine in Medina, Ohio on July 29. The engine was being moved to the Medina County Fairgrounds, in preparation for ...

Jim Robinson’s (Derby, Conn.) well-preserved and fully functional HE Payloader dating to the early 1950s. The simple curves in the loader arms increased wheel clearance, allowed for larger carry loads ...

When this photo was taken in about 1918, this Cletrac was being used as a "plow horse." Note how narrow this Model F (the first Cleveland tractor to carry the Cletrac name) is. In 1918, farmers were ...

This Pastime washer, showing the firstvariant construction, is in remarkablygood original condition. Learn about Pastime Maytag washer history facts, the story behind Maytag’s first clothes washer, ...

Case built 110hp steam engines like this between 1913 and 1925. In 1781, as the story goes, Scotsman James Watt struggled to convince skeptics to buy his new steam engine as a replacement for their ...

The arduous task of summer harvest was first undertaken using a primitive cradle, or scythe connected to four to six long wooden ribs that could hold several hand swathings. These were then dropped in ...