ARMY, U.S. ARTILLERY TRACTOR – Vintage Print
(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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ARMY, U.S. ARTILLERY TRACTOR comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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ARMY, U.S. ARTILLERY TRACTOR
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Few pictures on this board show the military side of agricultural machinery, and this 1918 glass negative from the Harris & Ewing Collection records a U.S. Army artillery tractor, a vehicle built to pull heavy guns across rough ground where horses and wagons struggled. Tractors of this kind were adapted for wartime use during the First World War, when the Army needed engines that could haul artillery pieces and supplies through mud and shell-cratered terrain. The Harris & Ewing studio, based in Washington, D.C., photographed a wide range of government subjects, and its glass negatives preserve much of the period's official record. The caption is unverified, so the exact model and location remain uncertain.
| 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 | 5,151 × 3,863 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 10991u ARMY, U.S. ARTILLERY TRACTOR |
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