Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- The nature of farming dramatically changed in the 20th century through what came to be known as the Green Revolution. From the 1920s-1950s farming productivity rose dramatically due to mechanization, fertilizers, chemicals (fungicides, pesticides, herbicides) and the hybridization of plants and animals. Agricultural innovations continue to be important to farming today. While the museum has over a dozen full-size tractors and other pieces of farming equipment, most technical developments of the 20th century are represented in the collection through toys and models.
- An unknown maker manufactured this model of a McCormick-Deering hay loader around 1944. Models like this could be hitched to a model tractor and operate like the real thing.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. Roger W. McIntire and Mrs. Ellen J. McIntire
- ID Number
- 1986.0818.01
- accession number
- 1986.0818
- catalog number
- 1986.0818.01
- Object Name
- hay loader model
- Measurements
- overall: 10 in x 12 in x 23 1/2 in; 25.4 cm x 30.48 cm x 59.69 cm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Agricultural Equipment Toys
- Agriculture
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1349821
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-b134-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
