I had some negatives converted into pictures, and this is a picture that I believe was taken sometime between 1945 and 1952.  The mystery, to me, is that, to my knowlege, my Dad and his brothers never had an IH tractor or picker.  I have an operators manual for a JD 226 that my Dad had written on the cover "First NEW picker-1941", so the tractor and picker in the attached photo COULD date from 1939 or 1940, as the tractor seems to be an IH M.  It possibly could have been a tractor and picker being demonstrated, as there is a man riding in the wagon.  From what I had been told, the only tractors and 99 per cent of the machinery, from 1936 till @2003 was John Deere. The only exceptions as far as the tractors went were a M-M Twin City, and a IH 560D, which were bought for the sole purpose of running belt driven irrigation pumps.

If the picture was taken where I think it was taken, it is NW of Gretna, Nebraska.  If I am orienting the location correctly, the set of buildings in the upper LH corner is missing the 2 barns/cribs that are still there, across the drainage ditch.

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