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Tractor with planter working a tilled field – Antique Wall Art

Tractor with planter working a tilled field — historic image
Tractor with planter working a tilled field. 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.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Tractor with planter working a tilled field. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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A tractor pulling a planter across a freshly tilled field is the focus here, showing the seed-planting stage of farm work at a point when mechanical power was steadily replacing horses and hand labor. Machines like this one cut the hours needed to sow a crop, and the sight of a row tractor on open ground marked a shift in how American farms were run during the first half of the twentieth century. Look closely at the planter attached behind the tractor, since its seed boxes and press wheels show how precisely the work was done compared with broadcast seeding by hand.

Original scan1,969 × 1,477 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference466536576_4a9b98386f_o 0420 spring work iowa spirit walker

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