Frank Dunlap Threshing Crew, ca. 1910
Most small farms could not afford to own the heavy and expensive steam engine and threshing equipment. So, threshing became a custom operation where threshing crews, like Frank Dunlap's pictured here, traveled from farm to farm. Dunlap's crew worked extensively throughout the Cairo, Nebraska area. Bugs Omer sits on a horse-drawn Case water wagon. Lynn Orndoff, Frank Dunlap, and Harold Dunlap (the young boy holding the dog) pose on the Case steam tractor. The unidentified three women and five children were likely bringing lunch for the threshing crew.

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