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[Happy Farm near Fargo, N. Dak. Two horses inside fence in foregrd.; house and farm bldgs. in backgrd.] – Historic Reproduction

[Happy Farm near Fargo, N. Dak. Two horses inside fence in foregrd.; house and farm bldgs. in backgrd.], 1945 Aug. — historic photograph
[Happy Farm near Fargo, N. Dak. Two horses inside fence in foregrd.; house and farm bldgs. in backgrd.], 1945 Aug.. Historic photograph from the Horses collection.

(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: [Happy Farm near Fargo, N. Dak. Two horses inside fence in foregrd.; house and farm bldgs. in backgrd.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Happy Farm near Fargo, N. Dak. Two horses inside fence in foregrd.; house and farm bldgs. in backgrd.]

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Two horses stand inside a fenced pasture in the foreground of this August 1945 view of Happy Farm near Fargo, North Dakota, with the farmhouse and outbuildings rising behind them. A photographer working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture made the picture, and the department's staff recorded rural life across the country during the 1940s. Horses were still common on Northern Plains farms then, even as tractors spread, and wartime labor shortages left many farms short of hands by the summer of 1945. The details here come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified.

Created / published1945 Aug.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto by Osborne (U.S.D.A.). No. N-5622. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Farms...--Misc.; Horses...; N. Dak.--Fargo region; Photog. I.; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,240 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140588

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