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Hay Wagon Coming up from a Meadow, Flushing, New York, circa 1900

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Artifact Overview

This photographic negative gives a glimpse of farm life circa 1900. Most farms were family operations and everyone, including children, had a job to do. People and horses were the primary power sources for most farm work. But technology, like electricity, was becoming more widely available, even in rural in farmhouses.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Negative (Photograph)

Subject Date

circa 1900

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

32.351.312

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Betty R. K. Pierce.

Material

Glass (Material)

Technique

Gelatin dry plate process

Dimensions

Height: 5 in
Width: 5 in

Hay Wagon Coming up from a Meadow, Flushing, New York, circa 1900