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[Mules pulling wagon] – Vintage Wall Art

[Mules pulling wagon] — historic drawing
[Mules pulling wagon]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive 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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Mules hauling a wagon is an unassuming subject, yet a graphite drawing of this kind captures a form of overland transport that dominated American roads well before railroads spread across the country. The record dates the sheet to somewhere between 1840 and 1860, a period when freight still moved largely by animal power on turnpikes and rural tracks, with mules valued for their endurance and sure footing on rough ground. Drawings like this one, made in pencil and often sketched quickly from life, offer a plain record of working transport that printed views of grand scenery tended to overlook. The record gives no artist or place, so the sheet is best read as a glimpse of everyday labor in the decades before the rail network took over long-distance freight.

Medium1 drawing : graphite.
Notes[between 1840 and 1860]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 923 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-171591

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