Evolution of sickle and flail - 33 horse team harvester, cutting, threshing and sacking wheat, Walla Walla, Washington – Vintage Wall Art
(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 Evolution of sickle and flail - 33 horse team harvester, cutting, threshing and sacking wheat, Walla Walla, Washington, 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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Evolution of sickle and flail - 33 horse team harvester, cutting, threshing and sacking wheat, Walla Walla, Washington
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A team of 33 horses pulling one harvester sets this stereograph apart, and it shows a wheat field in Walla Walla, Washington, around 1902. The title, *Evolution of sickle and flail*, presents the machine as the latest step from hand tools to mechanized harvest, when a single machine could cut, thresh and sack grain. Underwood & Underwood produced stereo views like this for parlor viewers, who saw the scene in depth through a hand viewer. The caption details come from unverified old records, but the card still shows how quickly wheat farming was mechanizing in the Pacific Northwest in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | c1902. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. 6. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Farm machinery; Farms...; Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,453 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145035 |
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