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Plowing by Steam, near Mandan, N.D. – Vintage Wall Art

Plowing by Steam, near Mandan, N.D., [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Plowing by Steam, near Mandan, N.D., [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Barns & Farms 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 Plowing by Steam, near Mandan, N.D. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Plowing by Steam, near Mandan, N.D.

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A steam traction engine pulling a gang of plows near Mandan, North Dakota, sets this scene apart from the other farm views on the board. Steam power reached the Northern Plains in the decades around 1900, when broad acreages needed breaking faster than horse teams could manage, and a single engine could turn far more prairie sod in a day. Mandan sits on the Missouri River across from Bismarck, so the photograph documents an agricultural landscape during the region's settlement era. The caption card gives no date, so the exact year is unknown, but the machinery itself points to that period.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsWittemann Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: N.D.--Mandan region; Farms...--Plowing; Farm machinery...; Steam engines; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 965 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130729

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