Wooden Grain Pitchfork
notes: label: Description
content: This wooden grain fork was used during the late 19th century. Wide tined pitch forks like this were used to pitch hay, grains, straw, and other agricultural products. Before the mechanization of harvesting by combines, reaping, threshing, and winnowing were done by hand with simple tools like this wooden pitchfork.
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture and Natural Resources
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Agriculture
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gordon Dentry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.63A01
label: catalog number
content: 63A01
label: accession number
content: 252786
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pitchfork, barley
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 150 cm; 59 1/16 in