Two-wheeled dump carts were common in America prior to the Petroleum Era. This one was purchased in the late 1980s at an antique store in Gap, Pennsylvania. The shafts are not original and do not have the typical hardware: a metal staple to which the draft, support, and hold-back straps connect on each side. The axle is made… Continue reading An American Two-wheeled Dump-cart
Farm Vehicles and Implements
Presto Changeo! Farmer’s Magic: Summer Wagon To Winter Sled
The Sunny South wagon and bobsled pictured is part of the ‘working collection’ used on a 130-acre historic site operated by the Mercer County Park Commission as a “living history” farm where visitors can learn about the lifestyle, buildings, and crop/livestock operations commonly seen in rural New Jersey (USA), circa 1900. In keeping with… Continue reading Presto Changeo! Farmer’s Magic: Summer Wagon To Winter Sled
A World Tour In The 1900’s
A world tour in photos of carts and draught animals in the early 20th century in the collection of The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, U.S.A. Glass lantern slide shows a line of oxen and ox carts being walked through the streets of a small Japanese village by men in local clothing. Taken when the… Continue reading A World Tour In The 1900’s
Working Carts, Wagons And Timber-Carts At The Écomusée d’Alsace
A series of photos taken by Cozette Griffin-Kremer of the working carts, wagons and timber-carts at the Écomusée d’Alsace (Alsace Open Air Musuem) Oxdrivers’ Ascension Day Weekend 2019. Cozette Griffin-Kremer, Associate Researcher, CRBC, Brest
“Women on Tractors!” A few reflections on women and their “steel steeds” in post-war Polish agriculture
1. Probably Bronisława Pestkówna on the Ursus C-45 tractor, field of State Agricultural Farms in the Gdańsk district, second half of the 1940s. From the collection of the Archives of the Museum in Szreniawa The collection of the National Museum of Agriculture in Szreniawa includes 35 tractors. These are machines manufactured by the following companies:… Continue reading “Women on Tractors!” A few reflections on women and their “steel steeds” in post-war Polish agriculture
How many ways can you make a wheel?
Abstracts: The Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL) at Reading University has a significant collection of 22 English farm wagons. A “Shoulder to the Wheel” exhibition developed in partnership with the Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, seeks to explore the skills of the wheelwright. Using a wheel collected by the… Continue reading How many ways can you make a wheel?