13 Turn-of-the-Century Tractor Pics

It’s Friday, which means here at Modern Farmer HQ we like to kick back and take a trip through the photography archives of the Library of Congress. From finding sweet-as-heck vintage victory garden posters to wondrous old-school farming pics, it’s probably the most fun you can possibly have on the Internet.

By the end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s, steam- and gasoline-powered traction engines (or “tractors”) had gone gone from agricultural oddity to field necessity. Join us as a we take a look at the thirteen turn-of-the-century tractors. Watch your feet.

[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Threshing in Buffalo County, ca. 1888[/mf_h5]

[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Anders Hultstrand’s threshing machine, Soper Post Office, North Dakota, ca. 1895[/mf_h5]

[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Threshing by steam engine on W.M. Fellows farm near Kearney, Nebraska, ca. 1910[/mf_h5]

[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Tractor show, ca. 1922[/mf_h5]

[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Andy and Mandus Hultstrand plowing with the Pioneer tractor : Fairdale, North Dakota, ca. 1912.[/mf_h5]

[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Ford Tractor, ca. 1917[/mf_h5]

[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Plowing and seeding by steam in South Dakota, ca. 1907[/mf_h5]

[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Automobile plow in use in England, ca. 1906[/mf_h5]

[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Peerless steam lift plow, Pazandak Farm, Fullerton, North Dakota, ca. 1908[/mf_h5]

[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Plowing with a Geiser steam engine, ca. 1908[/mf_h5]

[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Agriculture machinery, harvesting, possibly in Colorado, ca. 1900-1920[/mf_h5]

[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Big 4 tractor plowing, ca. 1910[/mf_h5]

[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Three binders pulled by Twin City “25” tractor, ca. 1918[/mf_h5]

Source: Library of Congress