ARMY, U.S. ARTILLERY TRACTOR – Historic Reproduction
(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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This rare historic photograph captures ARMY, U.S. ARTILLERY TRACTOR in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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ARMY, U.S. ARTILLERY TRACTOR
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Few pictures on this board capture the military side of farm machinery as directly as this 1918 glass negative of a U.S. Army artillery tractor. The record is thin: the title comes from caption data of uncertain origin, so the exact unit, location and model are not confirmed. What the image does show is one of the heavy tractors the Army used to haul large guns during the First World War, when motorized traction was replacing horses for moving artillery. The Harris & Ewing studio, a Washington, D.C. firm, made the negative, and its collection is valued for documenting the capital and public life of the period.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. note: Batch two. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Harris & Ewing Collection |
| Original scan | 5,134 × 3,846 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 10989u ARMY, U.S. ARTILLERY TRACTOR |
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