Golden field with tractor and wagon before tree line – Historic Print
(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 Golden field with tractor and wagon before tree line in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Golden field with tractor and wagon before tree line
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A golden wheat or grain field stretches toward a dark line of trees, with a tractor and wagon working the open ground in the foreground. Scenes like this one were common across the Midwest and Great Plains from the 1910s through the 1950s, when gasoline tractors were replacing horse teams and changing the rhythm of harvest. The picture's composition, with the machine small against wide fields and a distant tree line, shows how mechanization fit into farmland that was still defined by open acreage and seasonal labor. Its golden tones also make it a useful record of how farm work was framed in the period's photography and print culture.
| Original scan | 5,502 × 3,870 px · prints to 18 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1a34446u field with farm equipment |
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