Agriculture - The old and the new – Historic Reproduction
![Agriculture - The old and the new, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f3/f3f559a27c75-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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Step back in time with Agriculture - The old and the new, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Agriculture - The old and the new
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The title, "Agriculture - The old and the new," sets up a comparison that the picture's subject, plowing and farm machinery, makes concrete. The caption card gives no date, but the photograph belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, a body of news pictures made mostly in the early twentieth century. That was a period when gasoline tractors were beginning to replace horse-drawn plows on many American farms, so a picture pairing old and new equipment captures a transition that was reshaping rural work. Its value lies in showing that change as it was happening, before mechanization became universal.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Agriculture; Farm machinery; Farms...--Plowing; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,052 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131909 |
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