Morse Department of Special Collections

Folder 9: “Joe Tucker Joins Massey-Harris as Assistant to General Manager Hyslop,” Implement Record

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1943 August

Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

This article is a min-biography of Joseph M. Tucker.

Folder 8: “6000 acres cut, and no washing machine!” by Donald Wendt, Ferguson Heritage, Issue 34

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2005 June

Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

In this article, Donald Wendt takes a reader through buying an M-H 21 combine and working with the harvest brigade in 1944. This article also includes a photo of Joseph M. Tucker who was Massey-Harris vice president and United States Sales Manager who masterminded the Massey-Harris Harvest Brigade. It also includes a photograph of Judy Horsch and Lenwood Holo on the Brigade trail; re-living the operation conceived and planned by her father, Joseph M. Tucker.

Folder 7: “Commander of the Harvest Brigade,” by Larry Gay, Farm Collector

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2005 September

Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

This article is a mini-biography of Joseph M. Tucker and how he was the mastermind behind the Massey-Harris Harvest Brigade.

Folder 6: Calendar, Prairie Museum of Art & History

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2000

Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

The photograph that accompanies the month of June, Custom Cutters-Colby, was taken by Look magazine photographers when they did a story on farming in western Kansas in 1946. Photograph courtesy of Jim Deibert Harvesting.

Tucker, Joseph M.

Folder 19: Repair Parts List for Massey-Harris Self-Propelled No. 21 Reaper Thresher

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1943

Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

This manual lists all the parts needed to repair the Massey-Harris No. 21 & No. 21A Reaper-Thresher.

Folder 18: Owner's Manual Massey-Harris No. 21 & 21A Self-Propelled Combines

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Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

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 17: Directory of Service and Supply Depots

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Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

This is a photocopy of a directory that lists service and supply depots for the Massey-Harris Self-Propelled Harvest Brigade.

Folder 16: Massey-Harris Postwar Guide

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1944 January

Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

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 15: Massey-Harris Buyer's Guide

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Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

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 14: First in Farmer Preference Massey-Harris Combines

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Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

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 13: 1944-1945 Harvest Brigade...keyed to the wartime harvest emergency

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Circa 1945

Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

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 12: Speech, "The Story of the Loaves-No Fishes"

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1946 April 29

Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

This is a speech that Joseph M. Tucker where he was introducing the "Famine Fighters" Program after World War II.

Folder 11: “H. H. Bloom Takes Over for Joe Tucker,” Partners of Massey-Harris, Vol. III, Issue 7

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1948 December

Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

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 10: “The Harvest Brigade Final Years, The Massey Ferguson Era,” by Kerry English, Massey Harris Ferguson Legacy, Vol. 4, Issue 3

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2013 July

Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

This article is a history of the Massey-Harris Harvest Brigade.

Folder 5: Certificates, War Production Board

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1945, undated

Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

War Production Board Certificate of Service and War Production Board Industry Advisory Committee certificate.

Folder 4: Proposal of the Massey-Harris Harvest Brigade

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1943 August

Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

This proposal was presented to the War Food Administration in August 1943 and approved on September 15, 1943. Massey Harris asked to be "permitted to build an additional 500 Self-propelled Combines to assist in the harvesting of 14,000,000 additional acres of wheat in 1944."

Folder 3: Memorandum, Organization of the Massey-Harris Emergency Brigade

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1943 December 31

Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

Joseph M. Tucker wrote this memorandum to outline his "ideas as to how the emergency harvest brigade should be organized."

Folder 2: Job Application, Position at War Food Administration

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1941 November 27

Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

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 1: Organization Chart, Sales Department

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1939 January 1

Part of Joseph M. Tucker Massey Harvest Brigade Collection

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.

Pacific Bell: Customer Notification and Education Plan on CPN Delivery (2 of 2)