A chance discovery of a small, private museum during a trip to the Palouse area of Washington state yielded the discovery of several old photos taken during the wheat harvest in 1930's (approx). The photos were in poor condition, spotted with mildew, frames covering some of the images, many with torn edges, but still an amazing record of a time long past. The owner was generous in his willingness to let me photograph them, he had no idea who the original photographer was, but did point out himself, as a child, in one of the images.

"Early farming was extremely labor-intensive and relied heavily on human and horse-power. An organized harvesting/threshing team in the 1920s required 120 men and 320 mules and horses.[8] Teams moved from farm to farm as the crops ripened. By this point, the combine had been invented and was in use, but few farmers had enough horses to pull such a machine, which required a crew of 40 horses and six men to operate on level ground. Because of this, use of combines on the Palouse lagged behind use in other farming communities in the United States." - Wikipedia

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