Sowing seeds [with a caterpillar and planter], N. Korea – Vintage Wall Art
![Sowing seeds [with a caterpillar and planter], N. Korea, 1955 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/cd/cd8deb4b8689-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Sowing seeds [with a caterpillar and planter], N. Korea. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Sowing seeds [with a caterpillar and planter], N. Korea
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A caterpillar tractor hauling a seed planter across open ground is the detail that sets this scene apart, and the caption card places it in North Korea in 1955. That was two years after the armistice ended the Korean War, when the north was rebuilding farmland and promoting state-led cooperative farming and mechanization. The card's tags, including nurseries, chemicals and farm machinery, point to the wider push to modernize agriculture under the postwar government. The record is unverified, so the exact location and the details of the work remain open to further checking.
| Created / published | 1955 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Chemicals; Nurseries; Farm machinery; Industry; Agriculture; Korea, North; Communism. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,175 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-143163 |
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