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Identify old thresher? Restoring photo

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K. Heggestad

07-26-2005 00:01:27

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Hi, I am restoring this old photo. It belonged to my great-
grandmother and was taken by a relative who was a photographer in the mid-west.

From the lady hat fashion it looks like it is from the 1890-ies or thereabouts. The photographer's name was Rasmus Liseth and I have other farm scene pictures taken by him from Red River Valley in South Dakota. Could this be from the same place? I don't know who the people in the picture are but since this was sent to my great-grandmother in Norway I assume they are Norwegian-Americans.

"C I Case Wisconsin" is written on the machine. I wonder if anyone can identify this steam thresher and therebye help date the picture.

The whole picture is here

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Mike M

07-26-2005 12:09:09

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Re: Identify old thresher? Restoring photo in reply to K. Heggestad, 07-26-2005 00:01:27

Great ! But where's the picture of the thresher ? All I see is a steam traction engine.

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K. Heggestad

07-26-2005 08:53:19

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Re: Identify old thresher? Restoring photo in reply to K. Heggestad, 07-26-2005 00:01:27

Sorry the album didn't work. I will try to post it here.

I see "Case" written on the part that the ladies and the children stand on.

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Bob

07-26-2005 08:05:34

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Re: Identify old thresher? Restoring photo in reply to K. Heggestad, 07-26-2005 00:01:27

Your on-line album link does not work without a password, so I can't look at your other photos.

Where are you seeing the "C I Case Wisconsin" (Would be J. I. Case)lettering, on the steam engine, or is there a threshing machine in the other photos I can't open?

Below, and to the front of the operator, is a decal on a water tank that appears to be a "GAAR-SCOTT" logo. They were a big builder of steam engines, too.

I suggest trying to get your hands on a copy of the book "Floyd Clymer's Album of Historical Steam Traction Engines".

I'll try to send you a scan of a Case steamer photo and a Garr-Scott steamer photo by email.

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K. Heggestad

07-26-2005 08:55:34

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Re: Identify old thresher? Restoring photo in reply to Bob, 07-26-2005 08:05:34

Here is the original picture before I restored it. It took me a day or two.

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Bob

07-26-2005 09:44:49

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Re: Identify old thresher? Restoring photo in reply to K. Heggestad, 07-26-2005 08:55:34

I suspect you are seeing a Case water wagon behind a Garr-Scott steam traction engine.

Email me for scans of photos of both.

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K. Heggestad

07-26-2005 23:56:38

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Re: Identify old thresher? Restoring photo in reply to Bob, 07-26-2005 09:44:49

Assuming this thresher was new when the picture was taken, what decade would it be from?

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Bob

07-27-2005 00:50:11

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Re: Identify old thresher? Restoring photo in reply to K. Heggestad, 07-26-2005 23:56:38

The "tractor" is a "steam traction engine", not a "thresher".

The pictures I have offered to email to you if you provide an address (no response from you as of now), of similar machines are dated from 1886 to 1903.

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K. Heggestad

07-27-2005 06:32:51

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Re: Identify old thresher? Restoring photo in reply to Bob, 07-27-2005 00:50:11

A steam traction engine is a steam-powered tractor? They used it for ploughing? I inherited this picture, I don't know anything about what they do or who they are. I think it is an amazing scene.

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Bob

07-27-2005 10:58:22

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Re: Identify old thresher? Restoring photo in reply to K. Heggestad, 07-27-2005 06:32:51

Yes, that is a "tractor". I'm not sure what year that world came into use, in it's day it would have been called a "steam traction engine".

And, yes, they appear to be plowing with it.

Those steam engines sound like nothing else while under load!

Below are a couple of links to live steam demonstrations near me:

The top photo at the first link below is a photo of a "thresher", which could be powered by a steam engine, or a gas engine, examples of both are shown in the lower photos

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Here's another show near me. They have steam plowing demos, but I don't see any plowing photos on the website.

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