[Men using tractors and machinery to plant seeds in field in the Soviet Union] – Antique Print
![[Men using tractors and machinery to plant seeds in field in the Soviet Union], [1955] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/51/51e1f1845f05-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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Step back in time with [Men using tractors and machinery to plant seeds in field in the Soviet Union], a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Men using tractors and machinery to plant seeds in field in the Soviet Union]
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Men guiding tractors and seed-drilling machinery across an open field make this 1955 print a snapshot of Soviet agriculture in the mid-1950s. The mid-decade period was marked by the Virgin Lands campaign, launched in 1954, which sent tractors and planting crews into vast stretches of Kazakhstan and Siberia that had seen little cultivation before. Mechanized sowing like this was central to that push, as the state sought to expand grain output through large-scale machinery rather than hand labor. The photograph's numbered notation, "No. 29," suggests it was one of a series, a detail worth keeping in mind when reading it as part of a larger documentary record.
| Created / published | [1955] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1950-1960. |
| Notes | No. 29. |
| Subjects | Farming--Russia--1950-1960. Agricultural machinery & implements--Russia--1950-1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,069 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-169605 |
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