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A Hay Ranch in Colorado [men and horses in field, with a large stack of hay being stacked with the use of a machine], Fort Morgan, Col. – Historic Print

A Hay Ranch in Colorado [men and horses in field, with a large stack of hay being stacked with the use of a machine], Fort Morgan, Col. — historic photograph
A Hay Ranch in Colorado [men and horses in field, with a large stack of hay being stacked with the use of a machine], Fort Morgan, Col.. Historic photograph from the Horses 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 Hay Ranch in Colorado [men and horses in field, with a large stack of hay being stacked with the use of a machine], Fort Morgan, Col.

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Fort Morgan, a town on the South Platte River in northeastern Colorado, is the setting for this scene of men and horses working a field while a machine stacks a large pile of hay. Irrigated farming expanded along the river after canals and railroads reached the area in the late 1800s, and hay fed the draft horses and livestock that ran local ranches. The caption card gives no date, so the exact year is unknown, but the picture records the shift from hand pitching to machine-aided haying that came with that growth.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsWittemann Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Farm machinery; Farms...--Hay; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,092 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134014

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