Hear the story of how Heinrich Johann Herickhoff became Henry John, proud to be an American, with his John Deere collection ...

Learn about the history of John Deere newsprint advertisements, and see how these ads reflect the company's own manufacturing ...

The genius of pioneer inventors can confound us. Countless contraptions that revolutionized farming in the 19th and early ...

A surviving belt driven 17 x 22 inch bale chamber IHC pull-power hay press working at a Heritage Baling Day in Australia in 2013. The owner of the machine, Ken Paton, is operating the dividing-board ...

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 ...

This issue of the Iron-Men Album brings us to the 10th installment of Dr. Bixler’s history of the Aultman & Taylor Company, as edited by Dr. Robert T. Rhode. The Album is serializing Dr. Bixler’s book ...

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 ...

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 ...