Farm Days Gone By
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Farm Days Gone By
Loretta Sartore popped into the office recently to share this picture taken around 1948 of her sisters and her at…
Farm Days Gone By
Raymond Tewes driving a brand new 1950 Farmall M tractor in Frankfort in 1950. The tractor is now owned by…
Farm Days Gone By
Gary Jurres from Peotone shares this photo of shelling and unloading corn in 1949 by William Pooley and his son,…
Farm Days Gone By
Denise Issert shares this 1949 photo of her Dad, Victor, at 16, with his prize-winning Chester Whites. His hogs won…
Farm Days Gone By
Willard A. Rowley showing cabs are for sissies while plowing on the Rowley farm in Homer Township in the early…
Farm Days Gone By
David and Laurel Rowley share this photo of three exited children preparing to go “dashing through the snow” in their…
Farm Days Gone By
Scott Lagger shares this photo from his neighbors, David and Laurel Rowley, of threshing wheat on the Frank Rowley farm…
Farm Days Gone By
Robert Whitler grew up on a farm in Girard, IL. When he moved to Joliet, he worked shift work at…
Farm Days Gone By
Doug Gougar shares this picture of his grandfather, Harlow Webster Gougar, plowing with a team of horses on the Gougar…
Farm Days Gone By
Doug Gougar shares this photo of husking corn by hand on the Gougar Farm in 1942. Pictured left to right,…
Farm Days Gone By
Doug Gougar shares this picture of Harlow Webster Gougar, his grandfather, with daughters Elizabeth Uttermare Gougar (Fields) and Harriet Ann…
Farm Days Gone By
Dick Attaway shares this photo taken by his grandfather, Fred Attaway, of a traffic jam caused people assessing the damage…