Plowing on the prairie beyond the Mississippi / sketched by Theodore R. Davis. – Historic Print
(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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Plowing on the prairie beyond the Mississippi / sketched by Theodore R. Davis.
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Theodore R. Davis, a staff artist for Harper's Weekly, sketched this scene of an ox team breaking prairie sod, a task that defined settlement across the Great Plains in the late 1860s. The wood engraving ran in the May 9, 1868 issue of the magazine, which relied on artists like Davis to carry images of the West to readers in the East who had never seen the open grassland. Plows drawn by teams of oxen were the standard tool for turning the tough, deep-rooted prairie soil before farmers could plant crops, so the picture records a moment of hard, slow labor at the edge of settled country.
| Created / published | 1868 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1860-1870.Wood engravings 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1868 May 9, p. 292. |
| Subjects | Farming--1860-1870. Ox teams--1860-1870. Frontier & pioneer life--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,275 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-177452 |
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