A group of students are seated at tables working at drafting projects. Various pieces of drafting equipment are on the tables including right angel triangles, levels and a Thacher�s Calculator (cylindrical slide rule).
Professor Mervine and several other individuals work on different types of tractors including; a New Hart Parr tractor, a Rock Island Plow Heider tractor and an Avery Company tractor.
An instructor in the Blacksmithing class is demonstrating a technique. He stands behind an anvil with a hammer in one hand and a piece of metal in the other.
A group of students are working in the Forge Shop. They are using forges, anvils and hammers to shape the hot metal. One of the forges is labeled, ""Buffalo Forge Co., Buffalo, NY.""
A class in Farm Engineering are posed outside of a university building. The group is carrying various pieces of surveying equipment such as transits and survey poles.