The Harvest Lunch – Historic Reproduction
(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.)
Description
This rare historic image captures The Harvest Lunch in remarkable 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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The Harvest Lunch
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The Harvest Lunch" shows a midday meal taken in the fields, the kind of break that brought farm workers together when the crops were in. The print is credited to Bufford, the Boston lithography firm of John H. Bufford, which produced many sentimental and genre scenes for popular sale in the 1870s and 1880s. Images like this idealized rural labor and the abundance of the harvest at a time when American farming was rapidly changing. Its place on a Thanksgiving board reflects how the holiday grew out of older harvest celebrations, when a good crop was a reason to give thanks.
| Created / published | c. 1881 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Bufford |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,016 × 3,300 px · prints to 13 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 00379u |
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