- US US kmk 2019-20.001-1
- Box
- 1939-1949, 2000, 2005, 2013, undated
This box is made up of four series: 1) Subject Series; 2) Printed Material; 3) Don & Kay Kluck Series; and 4) Photograph Series.
Tucker, Joseph M.
This box is made up of four series: 1) Subject Series; 2) Printed Material; 3) Don & Kay Kluck Series; and 4) Photograph Series.
Tucker, Joseph M.
Box 2 is made up of oversize journal articles, a newspaper article, publications, advertising posters, and photographs.
Tucker, Joseph M.
Folder 1: “Birthday Letter,” Country Gentleman, Vol. CXV, No. 3
This letter was written by Marian Tucker Springer describing the famine in China and letting her father, Joseph M. Tucker, know hard it was to feed her family. After reading this letter Joseph Tucker was inspired to write a proposal to the War Food Administration to began the Harvest Brigade.
Folder 1: Organization Chart, Sales Department
This 1939 Organization Chart is for the Sales Department of VP & GSM. Joseph M. Tucker was in charge of the Organization Budgets Operations and Control.
Folder 10: “Retribution Overdue,” Farm Implement News
A mat framed copy of a joke that was printed in the Farm Implement News poking fun at Joseph M. Tucker.
This article is a history of the Massey-Harris Harvest Brigade.
Folder 11: “H. H. Bloom Takes Over for Joe Tucker,” Partners of Massey-Harris, Vol. III, Issue 7
This article is about Joseph M. Tucker announcement of his resignation from the Massey-Harris Company, Inc., Racine, Wisconsin and how he was accepting a major executive position with a leading prefabricated housing company.
Folder 12: Speech, "The Story of the Loaves-No Fishes"
This is a speech that Joseph M. Tucker where he was introducing the "Famine Fighters" Program after World War II.
Folder 13: 1944-1945 Harvest Brigade...keyed to the wartime harvest emergency
This pamphlet explains America's dwindling food stock in 1943 and how "Massey-Harris foresaw the critical situation of the 1944 harvest - a record crop production with too few men and combines to handle the vast acreages." Recognizing the seriousness of the situation the government approved the plan for a Harvest Brigade (a fleet of 500 Self-Propelled Combines) that "pledged to harvest more acres with less fuel, manpower and equipment than ever before in the history of the world."
Folder 14: First in Farmer Preference Massey-Harris Combines
This is an advertising booklet for the Massey-Harris Self-Propelled Combines. This booklet explains how the combines work and how they will save manpower, grain, fuel, and provide farmers with more crop.
Folder 15: Massey-Harris Buyer's Guide
This booklet is advertising for the Massey-Harris tractors. It explains the design, features, and attachments of the tractors. It also includes advertising for the Model 21A Self-Propelled Combine.
Folder 16: Massey-Harris Postwar Guide
This booklet is a postwar planning guide for farmers. It includes a guide to farm tax management, a checklist of machine and equipment repairs and/or what can be sold and/or what is needed, and a 5-year farm inventory sheet.
Folder 17: Directory of Service and Supply Depots
This is a photocopy of a directory that lists service and supply depots for the Massey-Harris Self-Propelled Harvest Brigade.
Folder 18: Owner's Manual Massey-Harris No. 21 & 21A Self-Propelled Combines
This Owner's Manual for the No. 21 & 21 A Self-Propelled Combines explains how each part of the combines work and how to store the combines.
Folder 19: Repair Parts List for Massey-Harris Self-Propelled No. 21 Reaper Thresher
This manual lists all the parts needed to repair the Massey-Harris No. 21 & No. 21A Reaper-Thresher.
Folder 2: “Massey-Harris,” Fortune, Vol. XXXIII, No. 6
This article gives a brief history of the Massey-Harris company. Joseph M. Tucker was the Vice-President of the U. S. company and James Duncan was President of the Canadian company.
Folder 2: Job Application, Position at War Food Administration
This is the original job application that Joseph M. Tucker filled out when he applied for a position with the War Food Administration on November 27, 1941.
Folder 20: Conditional Sale Contract & Order
This is a photocopy of a conditional sale contract and order for a new #21 SP - 12 foot Massey-Harris combine. This was purchased by Roy Kluck. He made a downpayment of $1,500 and was to pay $1,495.91 upon delivery to Enid, Oklahoma.
Folder 21: Customer's Order for Oliver Machinery
This is Emil H. Kluck's customer order for a new #21A SP Massey-Harris Combine. The cost of the combine was $3,866.75, the tax was $77.34, with the total price of $3,944.09.
Folder 22: Massey-Harris Self-Propelled Harvest Brigade Business Card & Sales Slip
The business card is for Emil, Roy, Ray, Harvest King's, Kluck Bro's, Custome Combining. According to the business card, the brothers had over 22 years of experience.
The sales slip is a blank Massey-Harris Self-Propelled Harvest Brigade sales slip no. 33671. This type of sales slip was used during the 1940s as indicated on the slip as _194.