(F-4) Charles Metzger, Henry Metzger, Forrest Doolen, Joe Metzger

(F-5) Forrest Doolen, Glen Brasel, Harvey Hanna

(F-7b) Claude Rose, Joe Osborne, George Long in front of first tractor

(F-8b) Farming with at least 15 horses pulling binder

(F-11) Harvesting ear corn

(F-12) Hay Sweep - Rake with horses

(F-51) Clyde Bassett with shucked corn in northern Illinois - 54 bushel

(A lot of local farmers worked temporarily in northern parts of Illinois while harvest was occurring.)

(F-13) Sam Hiestand on tractor and Claude walking to house

(F-14) Sam, Dan, and Claude Hiestand thrashing

(F-15) Sam Hiestand with 1938 John Deere in 1939

(F-16a) Vera (Hampsten) Johnston and W.G. Hays atop a threshing machine - Aug 3, 1939

(F-19) Dot, John William, and Thurman McCulley with Sooner and their rabbit catch

(F-20) Dot, John William and Thurman McCulley with binder

(F-21) Thurman, Dot, and John William McCulley on Hay Wagon

(F-28a) Bryan Pitts' farm - late 1940's

"Not So Long Ago. - This was the scene on the Bryan Pitts farm in Meacham township in the late 1940's, when Ellis Wilkinson brought his threshing machine

for the oat harvest. Standing in front of the machine, left to right: Wilkinson, Herman Soldner, William Soldner, Raymond Soldner, Bryan Pitts, J. Lem Ballance,

J.B. Maxey, Lewis Maxey. On the tractor is Morris Maxey; on the machine, Charles Bassett; on straw stack, Jess Hoyt; on wagon, Charlie Wainscott,

whose load of bundles threshed 105 bushels. Wilkinson’s thresher was new from the factory in 1919 and he used it that year and every year up through

it’s retirement in 1951."   (Newspaper article - Aug. 10, 1967)

(F-56) Shreffler Pear Packing Crew - Alma, IL - Sept. 17, 1929

(Not in order) Mrs. Rhoads, Lois Shreffler, Mag Bassett, Cled Wickenhouser, Bertha Green, Virgie (Nichols) Garrett, Nellie Shreffler, Elsie Morris, Olive Shreffler,

Selby Garrett, Helen Tomlinson, Hazel Shreffler, Mrs. Turner

Billie Morris, Fletch Cole, Andy Williams, Abby Cox

(F-32) Dutch Shreffler picking apples

(F-33) Shrefflers' Pear workers

(F-30) Dutch Shreffler's Peach Shed - Aug. 1947

BACK - Chas. Mitchel,, Clyde Garrett,  Hen Jones, Clyde Bassett, Lewis Maier, Helen Cox, __________, Jack Cox, __________

MIDDLE: Francis Maier, Lula Jones, _________, Hazel Shreffler, Alice Osborne, __________,  Tom & Dutch Shreffler;

FRONT KNEELING - Lila Garrett Williams, Darlene Mulvaney Bandy

(F-31) Dutch Shreffler's Peach Shed - 1947

BACK - ____________, _____________, Helen Cox, Juanita Mitchel, Lila Garrett Williams, Jack Cox, _______________, Lula Jones, Hazel Shreffler, ______________;

FRONT - Clyde Garrett, Charles Mitchel, Dutch Shreffler, Gordon Shreffler, Clyde Bassett, Henderson Jones

(F-29) Shreffler Fruit workers at the shed

Lulu Jones, ________________, Helen Cox, _________________, ________________, Lila Garrett Williams, Hazel Shreffler, Juanita Mitchel

(F-34) Dick Atkins' Strawberry Patch and pickers located 3 miles northwest of Kinmundy

(F-41)  Strawberry pickers at Dick Atkins' Strawberry patch

(F-35) Mrs. A. Tate photo

(F-36) Unknown putting up hay

(F-37) "Large  Load of Oats Threshes 101½" - Aug. 12, 1948 (reprinted in “The Kinmundy Express” on Nov. 10, 1983.) 

“Pictured above is Mr. Charles Wainscott of this city on a load of oat bundles which he loaded last Thursday afternoon on the Bryan Pitts farm east of Kinmundy. 

This is believed to be the largest load of oat bundles ever loaded by one man around this part of the country.  The load threshed out 101½ bushels and would

have threshed about 150 bushels if the load had come from the best part of the field.  Mr. Pitts reports that oats averaged about 20 bushels per acre. 

So this load represents more than 5 acres.  The load got too high for a man to pitch the bundles up is why Mr. Wainscott could not load on any more. 

We believe this is a new record that will be hard for anyone to beat."

(F-38) Wood Sawing crew in Willie Garrett's Barnyard - Tom Haynes, Orie "Tub" Atkins, Theodore Garrett, Orie "Paddy" Arnold, Willie Garrett, George Cole

(F-40) Marvin Conant, Bill Green, Ernst Bassett, Luther Barnes, Hall Feather, ______________, Mack Robb, Pete Cole

(F-39b) Working Men

(F-60) Dan Purcell with his grandson and horses picking fruit in orchard

(F-55) Bob Ford & John W. Ford with their sheep

                           (F-57) Bob Ford in the middle of pear season                                                                 (F-58) Bob Ford with the chickens

(F-59) Bob Ford, John W. Ford, and Jean Ford Krutsinger FORD, Bob, John W and Jean Krutsinger

(F-44) 4-H Livestock Show - J.N. Vallow, Fred Blackburn, Mr. Garbe                              (F-45) 4-H Livestock Show - John Ross Mazanek

(F-42) 4-H Livestock Show - Howard Broom and Bob Ford                                         (F-64) 4-H Livestock Show - Jean Ford Krutsinger and Dick Purdue

(F-53) Corn cribs

(F-48) Clyde Bassett's farm with mules, wagon, and barn

(F-46) Clyde Bassett's Mules - 1968

(F-49) Clyde Bassett - Mules and hay wagon - 1968

(F-47) Clyde C. "Pid" Bassett with mules, wagon and hay stack

(F-70) Clyde C. Bassett with mules - 1970's

(F-76) Bob Ford with Allis Chamblers planter - 1969

(F-73) Charles Lee Ford and Bob Ford - 1969

(F-18) Charles Lowe on John Deere tractor - 1985

(F-17) Paul Lane with Amy Yates, Leta Lane, and Eric Lane