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Wheat Fan [and] Sinclair's Sowing Machine – Vintage Print

Wheat Fan [and] Sinclair's Sowing Machine — historic print
Wheat Fan [and] Sinclair's Sowing Machine. Historic print from the Barns & Farms 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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Wheat Fan [and] Sinclair's Sowing Machine comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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 wheat fan and a "Sinclair's Sowing Machine" share this small 1822 woodcut, which pairs two pieces of farm equipment on one sheet. The fan was a hand-cranked winnowing device that blew chaff away from threshed grain, and the sowing machine was a mechanical planter meant to place seed more evenly than hand broadcasting did. Printed in the early nineteenth century, when farm labor was still mostly manual, the sheet reflects a growing interest in mechanizing agriculture. Woodcuts like this one helped explain unfamiliar implements to farmers who had never seen them at work.

Medium1 print : woodcut.
Notes1822
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,265 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137522

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