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This is a photograph of a group of German American farmers standing before a very large tractor and threshing machine in Marion County, Kansas. An American flag is suspended between the two machines.
Date: 1918
This photograph can be used in conjunction with other material on German Americans in Kansas to help facilitate discussion regarding the challenges German Americans faced during World War I.
KS: 11th: 1.7.: challenges German Americans faced in Kansas during World War I
Item Number: 549
Call Number: FK2.M1 .2 E.G *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 549
Agriculture - Implements and machinery - Threshing machines
Agriculture - Implements and machinery - Tractors
Agriculture - Labor - Farmers
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Farmers
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Religion - Christianity - Mennonite
Curriculum - 11th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1877-1930 (Kansas_Benchmark 1) - German Americans (Indicator 7)
Date - 1910s - 1918
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - European Americans - Germans
Places - Counties - Marion
Thematic Time Period - World War I, 1914 - 1919
Type of Material - Photographs
https://www.kansasmemory.gov/item/549
