Harvesting – Antique Wall Art
![Harvesting, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/35/35fce57154a4-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Harvesting. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A farm harvest scene on the front of this mounted print is paired with a picture of five young dogs asleep on the back, a combination that sets it apart from ordinary field views. The caption card links the subject to farm work and to dogs, but the card is old, its details are unverified, and no date is recorded. Mounted photoprints like this were a common way to show rural labor in the decades around 1900, when hand and horse-drawn harvesting were still widespread on American farms. The sleeping puppies on the reverse are a reminder that such mounts were often kept as keepsakes, so the back may say as much about how the object was used as the field scene does.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photoprint on mount with verso image of litter of 5 young dogs sleeping. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Farms...--Harvesting; Animals--Dogs. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,099 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146609 |
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