Palouse, Washington in the mid-1940s

This footage, courtesy the Washington State University's Extension Communications and Educational Support, was taken around the Palouse area in Eastern Washington in the mid-1940s. It shows horses pulling combines and other agricultural work.
This weekend, the Eastern Washington Agricultural Museum, opens. It includes acreage to demonstrate how wheat used to be harvested by horsepower.

[@lancieannie]

What an amazing video. It was a real treat to watch this.

1938. "Farming on the Palouse in 1938, using a horse-drawn combine. Filmed by Leonard Young for Washington State University. This silent film was digitized and uploaded at Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University from a film held in the WSU Libraries (Pullman, Washington)." From the WSU Libraries' post: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnWVe3yKi9p1d7M

[@ashleymann3742]

Makes it easier to visualize what Lenny and George are doing for work in "Of Mice and Men"!

[@bobs21club99]

This was actually done in the 1930s on the Palouse HRD TV did a special on it

[@barncrew20]

oh how times have changed, my granddad still tells me about these days

[@tidalmuck]

Viewed a mock-up of the tram to the Snake river at the Eastern WA Ag museum in Pomeroy. What an impressive collection of equipment and memorabilia.

[@countryguy72065]

Where was that tramway at?... almota or Pomeroy?

[@dreiSchlangen]

Is the museum on the WSU campus?

[@sonnymaher2113]

Can't stop watching this 👍