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[Left: 2 men using tractor and seed planter; top right: 2 men and 2 women working on agricultural machinery, MTS (The Machine-Tractor Station); bottom right: Woman with machine part, MTS.1] – Historic Print

[Left: 2 men using tractor and seed planter; top right: 2 men and 2 women working on agricultural machinery, MTS (The Machine-Tractor Station); bottom right: Woman with machine part, MTS.1], 1947 — historic photograph
[Left: 2 men using tractor and seed planter; top right: 2 men and 2 women working on agricultural machinery, MTS (The Machine-Tractor Station); bottom right: Woman with machine part, MTS.1], 1947. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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[Left: 2 men using tractor and seed planter; top right: 2 men and 2 women working on agricultural machinery, MTS (The Machine-Tractor Station); bottom right: Woman with machine part, MTS.1] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Left: 2 men using tractor and seed planter; top right: 2 men and 2 women working on agricultural machinery, MTS (The Machine-Tractor Station); bottom right: Woman with machine part, MTS.1]

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Three separate photoprints have been joined into one composite that shows a Machine-Tractor Station, or MTS, in the Soviet Union in 1947. One panel shows two men guiding a tractor and seed planter across a field, while the others show men and women working on farm machinery and a woman holding a machine part. The MTS system began in 1928 to supply tractors and equipment to collective farms, and after World War II many women took on mechanical and tractor work because the war had taken so many men. The caption details are unverified, so the exact location and the identities of the workers remain uncertain.

Created / published1947
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsComposite of 3 photoprints. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Agric. machinery...; Women--Employ--1947; Russia--Misc.--1947; Farms...--Plowing...; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,176 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-146597

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