Tractor Model
Tractor Model
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- 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.
- This tractor model was made by the Toy Manufacturers of the United States around 1919. This model tractor could be used to attached to the model plow (AG*19A01.2A), harrow (AG*19A01.2B) and roller (AG*19A01.2C).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- tractor
- toy tractor
- ID Number
- AG.19A01.2D
- catalog number
- 19A01.2D
- accession number
- 64098
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Agricultural Equipment Toys
- Agriculture
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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