Snapshots of the Past

tractor – Historic Print

tractor — historic image
tractor. 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.)

Description

This historic image of tractor brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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The record names only a tractor, with no place, maker, or date, so this picture is best read as a view of the machine itself. Tractors reshaped American farm work in the early 1900s, when gasoline-powered models began replacing steam engines and draft animals for plowing and hauling. Early machines were large, heavy, and often unreliable, and they were frequently photographed as symbols of progress. Look at the wheels, the exhaust stack, and where the operator sits to judge how far the design had moved from the steam era.

Original scan3,600 × 2,401 px · prints to 12 × 8 in at 300 dpi
Reference3441906939_d2b76ccfc2_b tractor

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