Hickok's patent cider mill – Vintage Print
![Hickok's patent cider mill, Harrisburg, Pa. : Scheffer & Beck, [ca. 1850] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3e/3e1c5161fb01-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
Hickok's patent cider mill comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Hickok's patent cider mill
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Hickok's patent cider mill is the subject here, a piece of farm machinery shown in full working order rather than a landscape or a portrait. The wood engraving was printed by Scheffer & Beck of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a firm that produced trade and advertising prints, so the picture was meant to sell the machine to farmers as much as to record it. Cider was a common product of mid-nineteenth-century American farms, and mills like this one, which crushed apples before pressing, marked a step toward more mechanized agriculture. The combination of engraved image and printed text reflects how manufacturers of the period used pictures to promote their goods.
| Created / published | Harrisburg, Pa. : Scheffer & Beck, [ca. 1850] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving with letter press. |
| Genre | Wood engravings 1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 965 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114170 |
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