Thrashing and Cleaning Grain: seven numbered illustrations on a printed page – Antique Wall Art
(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 print of Thrashing and Cleaning Grain: seven numbered illustrations on a printed page. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful 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.
Thrashing and Cleaning Grain: seven numbered illustrations on a printed page
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Seven numbered illustrations laid out on a single printed page show the stages of threshing and cleaning grain, the work that turned cut wheat, oats, or barley into usable seed and flour. Each numbered panel isolates one step in the process, so the page reads almost like a manual, moving from the machine that beat the kernels loose to the screens and fans that separated clean grain from chaff. Pages like this were common in agricultural books and periodicals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when mechanized threshing was spreading across American farms and farmers needed clear visual guides to unfamiliar equipment.
| Original scan | 4,010 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 8e04614u Page from The Growth of |
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