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Horses pulling a wagon through a cornfield – Vintage Wall Art

Horses pulling a wagon through a cornfield — historic image
Horses pulling a wagon through a cornfield. Historic image from the Tractors collection.

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A window into the past: Horses pulling a wagon through a cornfield, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Two draft horses lean into their harness as a loaded wagon rolls between rows of standing corn, a scene that belongs to the long stretch of American farming before tractors took over most field work. Teams like this one hauled grain, feed and hay across fields and to the barn, and a single pair could do the work that later took a machine and a driver. The board this picture hangs on is devoted to tractors, so the horses here offer a useful point of comparison: they show the labor and animal power that mechanization gradually replaced in the twentieth century. Look closely at the harness and the wagon's wheels to see how much of the farm economy ran on muscle.

Original scan2,118 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference1a34131u Gathering corn in the field, Pie Town, New Mexico

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