The family work horses with the house off in the distance. On a snowy cold Nebraska morning that would be a real trudge through the snow to get to the barn.
3/13/13
The GHOSTS IN THE LITTLE FAMILY ALBUM: The Work Horses
The family work horses with the house off in the distance. On a snowy cold Nebraska morning that would be a real trudge through the snow to get to the barn.
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This is no ordinary sod-buster barn. The size and quality construction are indications of prosperity. Having the residence in the distance helps put context into the arrangement of the farm buildings. In research on one of my photos from the Midwest, I discovered that horse breeding were a very big industry from 1875-1918. We forget that the work horse was a very important product of American farms, as they were the necessary power for all the agricultural machinery and transport.
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