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Harvester Cutting Apparatus, nine illustrated plate page – Vintage Print

Harvester Cutting Apparatus, nine illustrated plate page — historic image
Harvester Cutting Apparatus, nine illustrated plate page. Historic image from the Barns & Farms collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Harvester Cutting Apparatus, nine illustrated plate page comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Harvester Cutting Apparatus, nine illustrated plate page

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A nine-plate illustrated page showing a harvester cutting apparatus puts the mechanics front and center, where many farm pictures emphasize the people or the landscape. Plate pages like this were common in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century manufacturers' catalogs and trade publications, where engravings let a buyer see how the cutter bar, reel, and knife worked before purchase. Taken together, the sequence of views shows how a single machine was broken down into its working parts, a reminder of how mechanized reaping changed grain harvesting on American farms.

Original scan4,043 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi
Reference8e04651u Page from The Growth of

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