Farm couple standing by a fence under a stormy sky – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Farm couple standing by a fence under a stormy sky, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Farm couple standing by a fence under a stormy sky
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A farm couple stands close together beside a split-rail fence, with a heavy, darkening sky stretching above the open fields behind them. Fences like this one were a common sight across rural America in the late 1800s and early 1900s, marking property lines and holding livestock, and the wood was often hand-split on the same land it enclosed. Portraits that placed people beside their fields and buildings were a way for families to show their land and their labor, and the threatening clouds add a sense of the weather that shaped every harvest. The record does not name the couple, so the picture is best read as a view of everyday farm life of its era.
| Original scan | 4,629 × 3,278 px · prints to 15 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1a34096u Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico |
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