Ford tractor demonstration – Antique Print
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(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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This historic photograph of Ford tractor demonstration brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Ford tractor demonstration
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Around 1921, a Ford tractor was the subject of this glass negative, a record of a machine that was changing farm work in the years after World War I. Ford's Fordson tractor, introduced in 1917, was built to be cheap and easy to mass-produce, and demonstrations like this one helped manufacturers show skeptical farmers what a gasoline-powered tractor could pull and plow. The National Photo Company, based in Washington, D.C., made the image as part of its broad documentary work in the early twentieth century. Look closely at the streaks and blemishes on the glass, which come from the natural deterioration of the original coating rather than from the scene itself.
| Created / published | [1921] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. Temp. note: Batch two. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,402 × 5,135 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 30021u Ford tractor demonstration |
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