Images of Power - Tractors & Brews

Hi Folks

The California Agriculture Museum is presenting "Images of Power, from California's past" It is a project that Jack Alexander and I have been working on using his postcard collection as a visual guidepost to understanding early California ingenuity. The stars of the show are Daniel Best, Benjamin Holt and an evolution of machines from the 1800s up to about 1920. This project has been great learning experience laced with observation and discovery. The exhibit opens today and it will keep expanding for Tractors & Brews on June 7th at the museum in Woodland. You're all encouraged to attend!

Can you identify the machines in each postcard? For those of you who know all, the exhibit gives you an opportunity to tell all. For those of you who continue to discover, maybe the presentation will enlighten you in some area of early ingenuity. [attachment=48475]Best steam plowing.jpg[/attachment][attachment=48476]Holt 44 ft wide.jpg[/attachment][attachment=48477]Early California PC2 img986.jpg[/attachment][attachment=48478]har steam plowz.jpg[/attachment][attachment=48479]Best Steamer haul.jpg[/attachment][attachment=48480]best lumber.jpg[/attachment][attachment=48472]bests steamerss.jpg[/attachment][attachment=48473]Holt har.jpg[/attachment][attachment=48474]IMG_1880.jpg[/attachment]

We're introducing people to the mystery of tractors and harvesters who never knew they liked old iron by viewing early postcards that featured California's sights -- steam traction, engines, harvesters, and lots of grain.


Lorili Ostman, Executive Director, California Agriculture Museum

Hi Lorili,
thank you for taking the time to put up these wonderful colored images kindly supplied from Jack Alexander's collection.
I have only seen but one of them before--the 45 foot wide Holt.
Best regards and wishes for success of your exhibition.
Cheers,
Eddie B.