Plowing with gasoline tractor pulling 12-16 inch plows on John B. Siemer Farm, Harmony Township, Casselton, N.D. – Antique Print
![Plowing with gasoline tractor pulling 12-16 inch plows on John B. Siemer Farm, Harmony Township, Casselton, N.D., [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3e/3ec1d99975d6-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
Plowing with gasoline tractor pulling 12-16 inch plows on John B. Siemer Farm, Harmony Township, Casselton, N.D. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Plowing with gasoline tractor pulling 12-16 inch plows on John B. Siemer Farm, Harmony Township, Casselton, N.D.
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
A gasoline tractor pulling a set of 12- to 16-inch plows on the John B. Siemer Farm in Harmony Township, near Casselton, North Dakota, sets this scene apart from the horse-drawn fieldwork that dominated Great Plains agriculture for decades. Casselton lies in Cass County in the Red River Valley, where flat, fertile land encouraged large grain operations and early adoption of mechanized power. After 1900, gasoline tractors gradually replaced steam engines and teams of horses, letting one operator turn far more ground in a day. The caption card gives no date, so the exact year is unknown, but the machinery points to the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Wittemann Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: N.D.--Casselton; BI--BUSINESS; Tractors; Farms...; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,879 × 1,500 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147069 |
More from the Tractors collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
