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Windmill beside brick buildings and tall trees – Vintage Photo Print

Windmill beside brick buildings and tall trees — historic image
Windmill beside brick buildings and tall trees. Historic image from the Work & Industry collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

A window into the past: Windmill beside brick buildings and tall trees, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.

Windmill beside brick buildings and tall trees

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A lattice windmill rises above brick buildings and tall trees, a scene where working machinery sat close to everyday town life. Wind-driven pumps like this were a common way to draw well water in the late 1800s and early 1900s, filling tanks for farms, homes, livestock and small waterworks. The tower's rotating wheel drove a pump rod below, so such a mill was often the main source of running water on a site. Worth noticing is the contrast between the open steel frame and the solid masonry beside it, two building traditions side by side.

Original scan5,276 × 4,076 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Referencetif10170_Windmill

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