Tip Estes operating a tractor. Near Fowler, Indiana – Historic Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Tip Estes operating a tractor. Near Fowler, Indiana. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Tip Estes operating a tractor. Near Fowler, Indiana
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Tip Estes is shown at the controls of a tractor near Fowler, a small town in Benton County in west-central Indiana, where the flat, fertile land has long supported grain and livestock farming. The picture was taken in April 1937, in the middle of the Great Depression, when the Farm Security Administration sent photographers across the country to record rural working life. By the late 1930s, tractors were rapidly replacing horses and mules on Midwestern farms, so the scene captures a turning point in agricultural work. The negative is on nitrate film, and it was later transferred to the Office of War Information's overseas division around 1944.
| Created / published | 1937 Apr. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller. |
| Genre | Nitrate negatives. |
| Notes | Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. |
| Subjects | United States--Indiana--Benton County--Fowler. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,276 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-206210 |
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