Farm equipment

Harry S. Truman is riding a cultivator on the family farm in Grandview, Missouri. Donor: Harry Vieth.

Farm machinery along the Ba The' Agroville Canal in Vietnam.

Farming along Ba The' Agroville Canal bank in Vietnam.

Farm machinery along the Ba The' Agroville Canal in Vietnam.

An young male farmer is sitting on the back of a two-horse-drawn plow, with a young child standing up near the horses. This photograph was taken to be used for publicity pamphlets for the Farmer's Home Administration. The people in the photograph are unidentified.

Farmer's Home Administration (FHA) head Dillard Lasseter (right) with the Achievement Day Award of a Ford tractor to an FHA farmer in Dallas, Texas. All others in photo are unidentified.

This is an example of the classic plow of India. It scratches without actually turning the soil. The new-type plow being introduced all over India does a better job. The government of India and the Point Four Program cooperated in the community development program to help improve agriculture, health, and education in India.

Farm equipment in use on the Truman family farm in Grandview, Missouri. The figure riding the tractor is unidentified.

Unidentified exterior view of a loaded wagon or cart being pulled by a team of horses. According to Charles Thayer's curriculum vitae: "In 1955 I made an extended tour of European and Asiatic Russia and wrote a series for the Saturday Evening Post on post-Stalinist Soviet Union." Although not identified, this photograph is believed to have been taken during that trip.

Image of numerous unidentified men standing by a rice thrasher, somewhere in South Vietnam.