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Tilling the soil with wooden plow and oxen, Queretaro, Mexico – Antique Wall Art

Tilling the soil with wooden plow and oxen, Queretaro, Mexico, Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1919. — historic photograph
Tilling the soil with wooden plow and oxen, Queretaro, Mexico, Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1919.. Historic photograph 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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Tilling the soil with wooden plow and oxen, Queretaro, Mexico

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A wooden plow pulled by a team of oxen turns the soil in this view from Querétaro, a central Mexican state where farming then relied heavily on animal power. The stereograph was issued around 1919 by the Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, which sold paired images like this for parlor stereoscopes as glimpses of distant places. The method shown had changed little for generations, so the simple wooden frame and steady pull of the oxen make it a useful record of rural work before mechanized tractors became common.

Created / publishedMeadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1919.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.Stereographs 1910-1920.
NotesJ238283 U.S. Copyright Office No. 16160.
SubjectsFarming--Mexico--Querétaro--1910-1920. Ox teams--Mexico--Querétaro--1910-1920. Plows--Mexico--Querétaro--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,304 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-201004

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