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[Spring plowing] – Historic Reproduction

[Spring plowing] — historic print
[Spring plowing]. Historic print 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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A window into the past: [Spring plowing], preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Spring plowing is a drypoint, a technique in which the printmaker scratches lines directly into a metal plate with a steel needle, leaving a soft, velvety burr that prints as rich, slightly blurred strokes. The 1925 date places it in a decade when American farming was changing quickly. Tractors and gasoline-powered implements were spreading across the country, though many farms still relied on horses and mules to turn the soil each spring. Images like this one record the seasonal rhythm of rural work at a moment when the tools of the field were in transition.

Medium1 print : drypoint ; 21.2 x 36.1 cm.
Notes[1925]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 961 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120593

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