Stockdale ranch--Stacking alfalfa hay – Vintage Wall Art
![Stockdale ranch--Stacking alfalfa hay, [1888] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8b/8be79ac8759b-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with Stockdale ranch--Stacking alfalfa hay, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Stockdale ranch--Stacking alfalfa hay
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This view shows the Stockdale ranch in Kern County, California, where workers are stacking cut alfalfa, a crop that was spreading through the irrigated valleys of the state in the late 1800s. Stacking loose hay into tall, shaped piles was the usual way to store feed before mechanical balers, so the picture records a routine, labor-heavy stage of ranch work. The photographer is given as Watkins, and the print is catalogued among the period's California views. Its date of 1888 places it in a decade when Kern County's agriculture was expanding quickly.
| Created / published | [1888] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Watkin's photo. no. 48. |
| Subjects | Alfalfa--California--Kern County--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,434 × 1,154 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219390 |
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