Diggers: nine engravings of agricultural implements – Historic Print
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This rare antique engraving captures Diggers: nine engravings of agricultural implements in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Diggers: nine engravings of agricultural implements
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Nine engravings gathered under the title *Diggers* each show a different implement for breaking and turning soil, arranged together so the tools can be compared side by side. Plates like these were common in agricultural manuals and encyclopedias of the 18th and 19th centuries, where engravers drew tools in clean outline so that farmers and buyers could study their shapes and parts. Readers could learn to recognize and name equipment without ever seeing it in the field. Together, the group shows how much variety existed among digging tools long before mechanized tractors took over much of the work.
| Original scan | 4,023 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 8e04640u Page from The Growth of |
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