Horse team pulls a road scraper, Elliott vicinity, 1900

Item Overview

Title

Horse team pulls a road scraper, Elliott vicinity, 1900

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

September 1900

Date

1900-09

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Horse team pulls a road scraper. Two men drive the horses while two other men stand on the machinery holding wheels. All four men wear hats. There is a tree stump at the left, and tree branches visible in the upper left corner of the image. There are other trees and buildings visible in the background.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 667. East. Red Oak, Iowa. Meads farm. Sept. 1900. Working the road with a scraper. H. H. West churning at the rear of the house. Uncle Daniel Mead with scythe. Other not identified. Grace Biddick feeding a calf. A family group in the Mead home. At left are Uncle Dan Mead and Aunt Lucy seated. Standing behind with derby is Will Mead. Nell Brydolf seated at extreme right. Also are Walter and Grace Biddick. Others not identified. 5 negatives.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

Iowa--Elliott

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Graders (Earthmoving machinery)
Horse teams--Iowa--Elliott