Harvesters at work on a Van Nuys ranch, San Fernando Valley, ca.1898 

Combine harvester on a Van Nuys Ranch, ca.1890-1900 

Twenty-horse harvester at work in a wheat[?] field in Ventura County 

Harvesting crew and machinery at the Van Nuys ranch, southwest part of San Fernando Valley, ca.1886 

Twenty-four-horse harvester in the field, Hemet, Riverside County, ca.1890-1900 

Twenty-four-horse harvester in the field, Hemet, Riverside County, ca.1890-1900 

Thirteen horse-drawn plows on Van Nuys grain ranch, ca.1900 

Twenty-horse harvester at work in a field on a farm in Ventura County, California, ca.1900 

Combine harvesting on a Newhall ranch, ca.1900 

Harvesters at work in the San Fernando Valley, ca.1900 

Combine Harvesting on the Newhall Ranch 

Two men working a horse-drawn harvester in a bean field, [s.d.] 

24-horse harvester in the field, Hemet, Riverside County, ca.1890-1900 

Steam threshing beans on the Centinela Ranch 

Bean threshing on the Centinela Ranch 

Bean threshing on the Centinela Ranch (later Inglewood) 

View of construction on Van Nuys Boulevard in Van Nuys, showing train tracks and Virginia Street, February 1911 

Two workers in a strawberry field on a Laguna Ranch, Los Angeles, ca.1905 

A combine steam harvester and its crew in the fields, ca.1900 

Plowing and seeding 5,000 acres of wheat