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Plowing a 300 acre field with 8 horse team, at the rate of 8 acres per day, Adams County, Washington – Historic Reproduction

Plowing a 300 acre field with 8 horse team, at the rate of 8 acres per day, Adams County, Washington, c1907. — historic photograph
Plowing a 300 acre field with 8 horse team, at the rate of 8 acres per day, Adams County, Washington, c1907.. 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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A window into the past: Plowing a 300 acre field with 8 horse team, at the rate of 8 acres per day, Adams County, Washington, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Plowing a 300 acre field with 8 horse team, at the rate of 8 acres per day, Adams County, Washington

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A team of eight horses pulling plows across a 300-acre field in Adams County, Washington, sets the scale of this stereograph, whose title gives the pace as 8 acres a day. Around 1907, wheat farming was spreading across the dry country of eastern Washington, and horse teams still did much of the plowing before gasoline tractors became common on farms. Keystone View Company issued cards like this one for home stereoscopes, so the field was meant to be seen in depth by a parlor audience.

Created / publishedc1907.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, gelatin silver.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 14175. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Wash.--Adams Co.--1907; Farm crops--Wheat; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 802 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149026

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