Amana Agricultural History Photos

The Amana Colonies were primarily agricultural & have preserved much of the farm history in various museums.

See also: Amana, Amana Crafts
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Typical prairie farm silos.

OPA's Tractor Barn Museum.

Wood frame structure of Amana-style barn now tractor museum.

Minneapolis Moline Model R tractor (1939) at OPA's Tractor Barn Museum.

Wood gravity flow grain box wagon made in Amana (c1969) at OPA's Tractor Barn Museum.

Tractor with belt run buzz saw at OPA's Tractor Barn Museum.

Minneapolis Moline Model GTS tractor (1941) at OPA's Tractor Barn Museum.

Array of farm equipment at OPA's Tractor Barn Museum.

Antique tractor rigged soil prep attachment with at OPA's Tractor Barn Museum.

Minneapolis Moline road grader at OPA's Tractor Barn Museum.

Pears on tree.

Apples on tree.

Horse-drawn Minneapolis Moline hayloader (c1870) at Amana Communal Agricultural Museum.

Dowden potato digger (1906) made in Iowa at Communal Agricultural Museum.

Amana harness shop used until 1900 at Communal Agricultural Museum.

Henry Moore's Mini-Americana Barn Museum.

Miniature model of Abraham Lincoln's boyhood town of New Salem, IL, at Mini-Americana Barn Museum.

Model of early-American shingle mill at Mini-Americana Barn Museum.

Model of 1920s Iowa town at Mini-Americana Barn Museum.

Model of bygone Midwestern town at Mini-Americana Barn Museum.

Model of family farm at Mini-Americana Barn Museum.


All photos on this page are originals by & copyrighted by Jim Steinhart.
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