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Collection: 00387 - Roney Post Office Scrapbook Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00004
Title: Plowing with eight bottom plow
Date: 06/19/1912
Creator: Erbe (Garrison, N.D.)
Inscription/Marks: Back of photo marked "June 9, 1912 8 bottom plow. Andrew Kerzman- operator, Jerry O'Shea- on horseback, Henry Kerzman- plow controls, 2 cylinder Ford in the rear"
Summary: Three men sit or stand on a tractor and an eight bottom plow, while a fourth man watches from horseback next to the plow.Andrew Kerzman is identified as the operator, Jerry O'Shea is on horseback, and Henry Kerzman is at the plow controls. A two cylinder Ford automobile is parked in the background. Tractors such as this one helped farmers work more efficiently during the war. Many farmers bought their first tractor during World War I, though they had become available a few years earlier.
Red ID: PH_I_150992 Image ID: 100923 Image Notes: 00387-00004

Collection: 00387 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Roney Post Office Scrapbook Photograph Collection
Date: 1905-1960

Summary: Images of farms, farming equipment, plowing, and threshing in McLean County.

Collection: 00387 - Roney Post Office Scrapbook Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00004
Title: Plowing with eight bottom plow
Date: 06/19/1912
Creator: Erbe (Garrison, N.D.)
Inscription/Marks: Back of photo marked "June 9, 1912 8 bottom plow. Andrew Kerzman- operator, Jerry O'Shea- on horseback, Henry Kerzman- plow controls, 2 cylinder Ford in the rear"
Summary: Three men sit or stand on a tractor and an eight bottom plow, while a fourth man watches from horseback next to the plow.Andrew Kerzman is identified as the operator, Jerry O'Shea is on horseback, and Henry Kerzman is at the plow controls. A two cylinder Ford automobile is parked in the background. Tractors such as this one helped farmers work more efficiently during the war. Many farmers bought their first tractor during World War I, though they had become available a few years earlier.
Red ID: PH_I_150992 Image ID: 484807 Image Notes: 00387-0004b

Collection: 00387 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Roney Post Office Scrapbook Photograph Collection
Date: 1905-1960

Summary: Images of farms, farming equipment, plowing, and threshing in McLean County.

Collection: 00387 - Roney Post Office Scrapbook Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00004
Title: Plowing with eight bottom plow
Date: 06/19/1912
Creator: Erbe (Garrison, N.D.)
Inscription/Marks: Back of photo marked "June 9, 1912 8 bottom plow. Andrew Kerzman- operator, Jerry O'Shea- on horseback, Henry Kerzman- plow controls, 2 cylinder Ford in the rear"
Summary: Three men sit or stand on a tractor and an eight bottom plow, while a fourth man watches from horseback next to the plow.Andrew Kerzman is identified as the operator, Jerry O'Shea is on horseback, and Henry Kerzman is at the plow controls. A two cylinder Ford automobile is parked in the background. Tractors such as this one helped farmers work more efficiently during the war. Many farmers bought their first tractor during World War I, though they had become available a few years earlier.
Red ID: PH_I_150992 Image ID: 100924 Image Notes: 00387-00004-back

Collection: 00387 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Roney Post Office Scrapbook Photograph Collection
Date: 1905-1960

Summary: Images of farms, farming equipment, plowing, and threshing in McLean County.

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