Underwood Stereoscope Illinois farm scene

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[Mackaydon]

That scene reminds me of the area in Illinois where I used to live--which is now (sadly) a million dollar home golf course community.
Don in SoCal

 

[Red-Coat]

Cool find. There's an identical one on eBay with an asking price of $25, which has an information card. You can just about read it, and it begins: "This farm is a few miles out from Bloomington (McClean County)…"

 

[fishstick]

Rock pickin would be awesome if they still turned ground like this !!!

 

[ToddsPoint]

Rock pickin would be awesome if they still turned ground like this !!!

There had to be thousands of Indian artifacts laying everywhere when they broke out the prairie here in IL. I’m in Shelby, the third county south of McLean. 1850 is when it started. I met an old guy once that grew up on a farm. His dad broke out some prairie for the first time. He and his brother walked behind the plow and broke up all the Indian pottery that was rolling out from the plow. Another I knew found piles of pottery along the river when they were kids and tossed the pots in the air for target practice for their shotguns. It was so common, no one gave it a second thought. In the 90s, an artifact hunting friend got to hunt a field that had never been farmed. It had always been pasture along a creek. This is what he found.

 

[fishstick]

There had to be thousands of Indian artifacts laying everywhere when they broke out the prairie here in IL. I’m in Shelby, the third county south of McLean. 1850 is when it started. I met an old guy once that grew up on a farm. His dad broke out some prairie for the first time. He and his brother walked behind the plow and broke up all the Indian pottery that was rolling out from the plow. Another I knew found piles of pottery along the river when they were kids and tossed the pots in the air for target practice for their shotguns. It was so common, no one gave it a second thought. In the 90s, an artifact hunting friend got to hunt a field that had never been farmed. It had always been pasture along a creek. This is what he found.View attachment 2190170

That is a full blown SMOKER Todd!!!!!
Could only dream of having hunts like those. When I started pickin back in 97" as well as today is look out for pasture ground being turned.

 

[tamrock]

I can still recall all the harnesses and collars that were used still hung up in a machine shed at my great uncles farm outside of Stuart, Iowa. A lot of farmers clear up into the 1950s were still reluctant to make the switch from horse traction to the tractor.

The turning point – when the amount of tractor power overtook the amount of horse power on American farms – was1945.

 

[tamrock]

There had to be thousands of Indian artifacts laying everywhere when they broke out the prairie here in IL. I’m in Shelby, the third county south of McLean. 1850 is when it started. I met an old guy once that grew up on a farm. His dad broke out some prairie for the first time. He and his brother walked behind the plow and broke up all the Indian pottery that was rolling out from the plow. Another I knew found piles of pottery along the river when they were kids and tossed the pots in the air for target practice for their shotguns. It was so common, no one gave it a second thought. In the 90s, an artifact hunting friend got to hunt a field that had never been farmed. It had always been pasture along a creek. This is what he found.View attachment 2190170

I heard back in the early days when a farmer used those walk behind plows some would tie a front pouch on their waist and gather hundreds of artifacts as they turned the soil. Thats how some of the large collections of today were found long ago.