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Which will win? the famer or the railroad monster? – Antique Wall Art

Which will win? the famer or the railroad monster? — antique engraving
Which will win? the famer or the railroad monster?. Antique engraving from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Which will win? the famer or the railroad monster?, preserved in this antique engraving. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The title asks a pointed question: "Which will win? the farmer or the railroad monster?" The engraving frames the rivalry as a contest, with the railroad cast as a huge, menacing creature rather than a piece of transportation. The record attributes the work, with a question mark, to Ty Wust and dates it to 1873, when it ran as a wood engraving in a New York newspaper. Cartoons of this kind reflect the farm protests of the period, when many agricultural families resented freight rates and the power of railroad companies over the grain trade. The record is incomplete, so its exact details and original context should be checked against the publication itself.

Medium1 print : wood engraving.
Notes1873
SubjectsWood engraving by Ty Wust (?) publ. in New York newspaper, Aug. 14, 1873, vol. 2, no. 140. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI--Works; Congress, US; Rr--Cartoons; Cartoons, US; Farms...--Cartoons; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,224 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120945

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