"Lagonda Agricultural Works" Print from Clark County, Ohio, 1859

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Courtesy of Library of Congress, Forbes, Edwin, "Lagonda Agricultural Works," Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States, 1859

Description 

The scenes on this print show men harvesting grain using mechanical devices. The print, originally produced in 1859, was published in the book, Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States, in 1997.

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Source-Dependent Questions

• How important do you think farm machinery was to the artist of this print? Cite evidence from the print with your answer.
• Compare the farm scenes in this print with those in the Diploma Awarded by the People's Agricultural Society of West Jersey. What is similar? What is different? Why did both include agricultural based imagery?
• The two men in the image hold traditional hand-powered farm implements while looking at the mechanical farming implement. Using evidence from the image, explain how the artist might feel about the new technology.

Citation Information 

Forbes, Edwin, "Lagonda Agricultural Works," Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States, 1859. Courtesy of Library of Congress