Photo Number 282

I purchased this photo at a local garage sale, I wonder if this child got a new pony or if a photographer came through town with a pony all decked out and took photographs of kids on his pony.   Note the child has no shoes on.  The building in the background is covered in a very familiar tar paper design.

Tar paper was used as a covering on some buildings and homes.  At my house when I was a child we had an entrance to our basement on the outside of the house and it was covered in this same tar paper. Tar paper kept the moisture off of the wood and kept a building from rotting away.

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Photo Number 281

This photo was marked Beresford, South Dakota our homestead 1930.   There are three buildings and a wagon.

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Update: Judy and Jingle Bob both identified the wagon as a sheep wagon.   Thanks ! 

Photo Number 280

Two young men showing off their ponies.  I see a chicken coop in the background on the left, but I am not sure what the building on the right is..it may be a grainery with an attached equipment shed/lean to. This photo was developed in a photo shop in Lincoln, Nebraska so I am guessing it is a farm in that area probably during the 1920-1930’s.

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Photo Number 279

A farmer with his cattle and his cattle dog. These might be beef cattle, they certainly are not Purebred Herefords.  I bet you all are relieved that I am finally past the grain harvest photos!   I have about another week of farm photos and then we will go onto something else.  Iggy commented that there has been very little in the backgrounds of these photos, that holds true for many of the prairie areas of Minnesota and North Dakota..there are only trees near the farmsteads.  This farm has a small hill where the horse is grazing…and a pond for a watering hole. 
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Photo Number 278

Today we have a gentleman who probably came out from town or stopped by after a doings to pose for this picture in the grain field.  I am not sure how much working in the field this man does.  Short sleeves and tie and all.

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Photo Number 277

Two farmers very proud of their shocks of grain.  This country looks like North Dakota or parts of the Red River Valley area of Minnesota.  These men are dressed for work in the fields, in most all of the photos that I have looked at men are wearing long sleeves and overalls.  My father and his brothers all dressed very similar to these men.  Tomorrow I do have a photo of a guy dressed differently standing in a field.  This photo could have been taken anywhere from the 1920’s to the 1950’s.
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Photo Number 276

August 1923.  This is the only harvest photo that is marked with a date.   I believe these men are carrying sheaves of grain and stacking them up into shocks that will eventually be loaded onto a wagon to await the threshing machine.    A sheave or sheaf of grain is a bundle that can be carried under one arm.
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