Source
Source: Photo: F. Schäffer. bpk-Bildagentur, image number 20030049. For rights inquiries, please contact Art Resource at requests@artres.com (North America) or bpk-Bildagentur at kontakt@bpk-bildagentur.de (for all other countries).
Abstract
This 1904 photograph documents a key activity in rural German life, even in the early twentieth century: threshing wheat. Before the age of mechanization, threshing wheat was a collective effort in which workers of all ages participated. In the image below, several children look on as two men (standing in the archway of the barn) beat the wheat husks to separate the grain from the straw.
Peasants Threshing Wheat (1904)
Recommended Citation
Peasants Threshing Wheat (1904),
published in: German History in Documents and Images,
<https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/wilhelmine-germany-and-the-first-world-war-1890-1918/ghdi:image-1622>
[September 26, 2025].