Grain Mills plate with numbered illustrations – Historic Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Grain Mills plate with numbered illustrations. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Grain Mills plate with numbered illustrations
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Rather than showing a scene, this plate sets out the working parts of grain milling, with numbered illustrations keyed to a legend so a reader can match each labeled piece to its place in the machine. Engraved plates like this were common in 19th-century encyclopedias and manufacturers' catalogs, when gristmills were central to rural life and local grain was ground into flour and feed. The numbering turned the drawing into a teaching tool, helping farmers and millwrights compare mechanisms and learn the names of the parts. It is a useful record of how mills were built before roller mills largely replaced stone grinding.
| Original scan | 4,052 × 5,000 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 8e04626u Page from The Growth of |
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