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[Man operating a McCormick Deering Famrall tractor and reaper] – Vintage Print

[Man operating a McCormick Deering Famrall tractor and reaper] — historic photograph
[Man operating a McCormick Deering Famrall tractor and reaper]. Historic photograph from the Tractors 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Man operating a McCormick Deering Famrall tractor and reaper] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Man operating a McCormick Deering Famrall tractor and reaper]

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A McCormick-Deering Farmall tractor pulling a reaper gives this print its particular focus: a single operator managing both machines at once in the field. International Harvester introduced the Farmall in 1924 as one of the first tractors built for row crops, with a high frame and narrow front that let it work between corn or cotton rows. Pairing it with a reaper, which cut standing grain, shows how quickly farm machinery was changing by the late 1920s. The October date in the record suggests a harvest-season scene.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1930 Oct. 20.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,414 × 1,500 px · prints to 8 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137986

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