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60 horsepower caterpillar engine combine harvester used in Deschutes Valley, central Oregon, on the line of the Oregon trunk. – Vintage Wall Art

60 horsepower caterpillar engine combine harvester used in Deschutes Valley, central Oregon, on the line of the Oregon trunk., c1912 Sept. 3. — historic photograph
60 horsepower caterpillar engine combine harvester used in Deschutes Valley, central Oregon, on the line of the Oregon trunk., c1912 Sept. 3.. Historic photograph from the Horses 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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A window into the past: 60 horsepower caterpillar engine combine harvester used in Deschutes Valley, central Oregon, on the line of the Oregon trunk., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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60 horsepower caterpillar engine combine harvester used in Deschutes Valley, central Oregon, on the line of the Oregon trunk.

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A 60-horsepower Caterpillar-type tractor pulling a combine harvester sits at the center of this view of the Deschutes Valley in central Oregon, a stretch of country where the Oregon Trunk line was being pushed through canyon land around 1910 to 1912. Tracked tractors like this one were heavy and could work soft, uneven ground, which made them useful on the large grain operations that were spreading across the region. The record's date and attribution are unverified, but the photograph documents the mechanized harvest and the railroad-era settlement that were reshaping rural Oregon at the time.

Created / publishedc1912 Sept. 3.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesJ172675 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by O. Hedlund. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Farms...Harvest; Farm Machinery; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,157 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-143600

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