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Horse-drawn cart beside artesian well – Historic Print

Horse-drawn cart beside artesian well, 188-. — historic photograph
Horse-drawn cart beside artesian well, 188-.. 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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Step back in time with Horse-drawn cart beside artesian well, a historic photograph rich in period 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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A horse-drawn cart stands beside an artesian well in Kern County, California, a detail that places the scene on the working edge of the San Joaquin Valley in the 1880s. Artesian wells, which brought water up under natural pressure, were valued in this dry country for stock, household use, and irrigating new farms and ranches. The caption tags also list farm machinery, family groups, and Paiute tribes and reservations, which hints at how settlement, agriculture, and older communities overlapped in the area. The record comes from an unverified caption card, so the exact date and the people pictured remain uncertain.

Created / published188-.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto of Kern County, California. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Farms...; Ranches...; Farm machinery' Irrigation; Architecture; Artesian well; Family groups; Indians--Capms...; Indian tribes--Painte; Indians-- Reservations; Ca.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,199 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130168

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