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Title
A Hive of Farm Activity
Description
A beehive, traditional symbol of industry and an orderly community, organizes four images of farming around its center. In clockwise order from the top, we see the arts of landscaping and decorative gardening; a barnyard with various farm animals including a dairy cow at rear; a farmhouse with fields being plowed and seeded with grains; and a group of fruit-pickers in an orchard. All are depicted as facets of a modern, integrated farm. But decorative images--sheaves of wheat, barrels of cider, vegetables, hand tools--also seem to be updating an older symbol of cornucopia. It was an ideal few real-life farms could realistically attain.
Creator
Wade (artist?)
F.W. O'Neill (author)
H.L. Williams (author)
F.W. O'Neill (author)
H.L. Williams (author)
Publisher
R. Worthington
Date
1880
Contributor
Cooper, Ken
Source
F.W. O'Neill and H.L. Williams, The American Farmer's Hand-Book (New York: R.Worthington, 1880): 22.
Courtesy of Internet Archive
Courtesy of Internet Archive
Format
jpeg, 627 KB
Type
Still image
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Original Format
Engraving