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Plowing with a primitive native plow--how the Russian peasant tills his leased fields – Historic Print

Plowing with a primitive native plow--how the Russian peasant tills his leased fields, Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1915. — historic photograph
Plowing with a primitive native plow--how the Russian peasant tills his leased fields, Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1915.. 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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Plowing with a primitive native plow--how the Russian peasant tills his leased fields comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The title sets this card apart: it shows a Russian peasant plowing leased fields with what the caption calls a primitive native plow, a simple wooden implement of the kind that remained common in the countryside. Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, issued many stereographs like this around 1915 for American parlors and classrooms, so the scene was meant to introduce farm life far away to viewers who may never have seen a field worked this way. Beside the tractors on this board, the card offers a clear contrast between hand-guided tools and the machines that would soon change farming.

Created / publishedMeadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1915.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesJ209896 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 18101.
SubjectsPlows--1910-1920. Farming--Soviet Union--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,273 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-177543

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