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Description
Black and white photograph showing two men harvesting rice on a John Deere tractor and a mechanical reaper. The way the process would work is one man would drive the tractor while the other one would catch the rice stalks as they came off the reaper's conveyer belt and "bind" them.
Physical Description
Photograph, 8" x 10"
Subjects
Agriculture; Rice; Farming; Farmers
Geographical Area
Stuttgart, Arkansas County (Ark.)
Language
English
Identifier
PHC004028
Resource Type
Image
Collection
PHC photo file
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Rice Harvesting in Stuttgart, PHC photo file, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Rights
Use and reproduction of images held by the Arkansas State Archives without prior written permission is prohibited. For information on reproducing images held by the Arkansas State Archives, please call 501-682-6900 or email at state.archives@arkansas.gov.
Disciplines
United States History
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Comments
Before combines were on the scene, harvesting crops such as rice was a two-step process. This is a great example of early mechanized harvesting and shows step one, reaping, before step two, threshing, where the grain is actually separated from the stalk. - Bryson Caudle