Horse is paraded before prospective buyers, farm sale, Pettis County, Missouri – Vintage Print
(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: Horse is paraded before prospective buyers, farm sale, Pettis County, Missouri, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Horse is paraded before prospective buyers, farm sale, Pettis County, Missouri
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A horse being walked up and down in front of a row of prospective buyers gives this scene its focus: a farm sale in Pettis County, Missouri, in November 1939. Such sales were a regular part of rural life in the late 1930s, when families who had lost land or equipment to hard times sold off their stock and tools at auction, and a horse was often among the most valuable items on offer. The photograph was made on 35 mm nitrate film for the Farm Security Administration, whose photographers documented conditions in the American countryside during the Depression. Its later transfer to the Office of War Information's Overseas Picture Division in 1944 shows how these negatives were reused.
| Created / published | 1939 Nov. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm. |
| Genre | Nitrate negatives. |
| Notes | Title and other information from caption card. United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. |
| Subjects | United States--Missouri--Pettis County. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,264 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-206539 |
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