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traktor 3vil.3lvis – Vintage Wall Art

traktor 3vil.3lvis — historic image
traktor 3vil.3lvis. Historic image from the Tractors collection.

(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: traktor 3vil.3lvis, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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The record gives only a short title, "traktor 3vil.3lvis," which appears to be a file-style label rather than a caption, though "traktor" is the word for tractor in several European languages. Tractors became a common subject for American pictorial photographers in the early twentieth century, as mechanized farming spread and the machine came to stand for a changing countryside. Images of these machines often contrast the heavy iron of the engine with the open fields, farmhands, and dirt roads around it. Looking closely at the wheels, the exhaust, and the ground under them can reveal much about the work the machine was built to do.

Original scan3,872 × 2,592 px · prints to 13 × 9 in at 300 dpi
Reference2775573524_9b37238c8a_o traktor 3vil.3lvis

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