| description: | William Shipley'S Threshing Gang Around Minto, Mb. About 1900. William Shipley Is Standing On The Wheel Of The Steam Engine To The Left Of The Photo. Note The Barrel (Probably With Water ) On The Far Left Of The Photo. Note The Screen Spark Catcher On The Smokestack, And The Stray Carrier On The Separator; This Carried The Straw Out From The Back Of The Separator; When It Piled Up It Was Moved Away With Horses And A Buckpole. William Shipley Custom Threshed Throughout The Minto And Boissevain Areas Of Southern Manitoba. Photo Courtesy Of Dorothy Shipley |