The following photos are from my father-in-law's photo albums. These document the life of the Easterday/Rogers families in the early part of the last century. I will be adding photos to this as my father-in-law sends them to me. Click on the picture to see a higher resolution version!
This photo is from 1914 and shows the Frick engine, stationary bailer and a team with a water wagon. They have stopped for this photo. The gentleman sitting on the water wagon is Mel Easterday, my wife's great-great-grandfather. The person on the Frick is Harry Rogers, my wife's great-grandfather. The person leaning on the car is unknown.
This photo is from 1915. The man on the Frick engine is probably Harry Rogers. The guys on the grader are unknown. They are probably grading roads in the township.
Threshing in 1915. The location is unknown.
This is from 1914. This is the same stationary bailer that is shown in the first photo. Here, it is hooked up to the Frick.
A gentleman by the name of Charles Harthy came down from Grand
Haven,
Michigan to take pictures. He was working on a paper about the Groton Co. This
picture is one that Mr. Harthy gave to my father-in-law of the Groton portable
engine that used to be displayed at the Ford Museum.
This is a picture of Fred Rogers Sr, standing next to the Groton. (We don't know who the blond boy is.) I am guessing that this is probably not too long after it came into the Rogers family. The canopy does not yet have the awning fringe on it yet. The paint job looks brand new. I have been working (slowly) on getting the paint cleaned up. I always wondered what the color was. (I am assuming that the photo has color drifted a bit toward the red!) The other major differences that I can see between this picture and the current engine are: 1) The right hand side bunker is different (now has a solid top and the side is open to shovel coal), 2) there is only one whistle up top, and 3) the current engine has a lower step on the left side.
This is a picture of a bailing threshing and bailing demonstration on the Roger's farm from 1962 or 1963. Boy, that platform is sure crowded on the back of the Baker engine. The second gentleman on the back of the truck pitching bundles is my father-in-law, David Rogers. (He is in his early twenties in this picture.)