A farm crew works a hayfield with a two-horse wagon, one brown horse and one white, the bed heaped with loose hay. A man with a pitchfork stands beside the load while another sits atop it, and a woman in a red blouse and white skirt watches from the door of a white farmhouse. Chickens scratch in the foreground. The scene reflects the horse-powered, hand-labor haying typical of rural Illinois in the early 1900s, when loose hay was pitched by hand onto wagons and hauled to a barn or stack.
Handwritten message on the front lower left; thin light border at edges; scattered white scuffing and damage spots, heaviest at upper left; copyright date 1903 printed in the image.
Postmark: MILTON NOV 14 2 30 PM 1906 ILL. Undivided back (message written on front); copyright 1903 R. Hill; toned, foxed card stock.
Cite this card
Hay harvest with horse-drawn wagon, 1906, postcard, c. 1906. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/hay-harvest-with-horse-drawn-wagon-1906. Accessed November 2, 2026.
