Tractor mount with limber in Washington Navy Yard – Vintage Print
![Tractor mount with limber in Washington Navy Yard, [1917(?)] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/92/92cd53322b51-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 Tractor mount with limber in Washington Navy Yard, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Tractor mount with limber in Washington Navy Yard
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Few photographs from the Washington Navy Yard show a gun system on wheels, but this one pairs a tractor mount with a limber, the two-wheeled front cart that hitches to a field gun and carries part of its weight. The Naval Gun Factory at the Navy Yard produced ordnance and mounts for the fleet, and the record dates the image to about 1917, when the United States was entering the First World War. Wartime demand pushed engineers to replace horses with motor power for hauling heavy artillery, and tractor technology was adapted to that job. The picture is a useful glimpse of the point where farm machinery and military logistics began to overlap.
| Created / published | [1917(?)] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | Naval Gun Factory (Washington, D.C.)--Products--1910-1920. Artillery (Weaponry)--Washington (D.C.)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,041 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-163972 |
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