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[N.D. - Mandan - many horse-drawn wagons loaded with wheat at the railroad freight depot; large grain elevator] – Vintage Wall Art

[N.D. - Mandan - many horse-drawn wagons loaded with wheat at the railroad freight depot; large grain elevator] — historic photograph
[N.D. - Mandan - many horse-drawn wagons loaded with wheat at the railroad freight depot; large grain elevator]. 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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Horse teams and wagons heaped with wheat line up at the railroad freight depot in Mandan, North Dakota, with a tall grain elevator rising behind them. Such scenes were common across the Northern Plains around 1900, when farmers hauled their harvests by wagon to rail sidings, where the grain was lifted into elevators and loaded onto freight cars for shipment to eastern mills and markets. The horses, which did the hard work of moving heavy loads over dirt roads, show how central animal power still was to agriculture even as railroads and steel machinery reshaped the region.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesca. 1900?
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 880 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122759

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