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Woman driving tractor plowing a field, early photograph – Vintage Wall Art

Woman driving tractor plowing a field, early photograph — historic photograph
Woman driving tractor plowing a field, early photograph. Historic photograph from the Tractors collection.

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

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This historic photograph of Woman driving tractor plowing a field, early photograph brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Woman driving tractor plowing a field, early photograph

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A woman at the reins of a tractor, turning furrows across an open field, is a sight that ran against the grain of its era, when farm machinery was widely assumed to be a man's domain. Early photographs of women operating tractors are uncommon, and this one is worth a closer look for what it suggests about the labor that kept farms running during and after the first decades of mechanized plowing. Wartime shortages and later farm labor gaps pushed many women into hands-on field work, and images like this one record that shift in everyday practice.

Original scan5,440 × 4,391 px · prints to 18 × 15 in at 300 dpi
Reference05094uFord tractor demonstration

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