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Girl petting a sheep with a bell collar – Vintage Print

Girl petting a sheep with a bell collar — historic image
Girl petting a sheep with a bell collar. Historic image from the Barns & Farms collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Girl petting a sheep with a bell collar, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Girl petting a sheep with a bell collar

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A young girl leans over a fence to scratch a sheep that wears a bell collar, the small brass bell a reminder of how shepherds once tracked flocks across pasture and fog. Farm scenes like this were common in rural life through the late 1800s and early 1900s, when children often worked alongside animals and the daily rhythm of a farm was shaped by feeding, milking and mending. Pictures of ordinary moments such as this one give a sense of the everyday closeness between people and livestock that is easy to lose sight of today.

Original scan6,797 × 8,518 px · prints to 23 × 28 in at 300 dpi
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