1885 steam tractor – Historic Reproduction
![1885 steam tractor, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/50/5057793317b8-L.webp)
(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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This historic photograph of 1885 steam tractor brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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1885 steam tractor
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The subject is a steam tractor, a large, coal- or wood-fired machine that hauled plows and threshing equipment across American farmland before gasoline power took over. The record dates it to 1885 based only on the title, and the caption card gives no date, so treat that year as unconfirmed. The image is a photograph of an engraving from the Case Company collection, and Case, based in Racine, Wisconsin, was one of the best-known builders of steam traction engines in the late 1800s. Because the source is an engraving, it shows how such machines were drawn for catalogs and periodicals of the period.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo of engraving. Case Co. coll. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Steam engines; Farm machinery; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 1,198 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-130975 |
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