Photograph
Painted Scenery Backdrop
| A backdrop from the set of the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reaper Centennial. Caption on back of photograph reads: "Painting on glass approximately 4 x 6 feet. Mounted in frame on scaffold carrying on upper portion painting of simulated background for main public reaper trial scene. Also, painting of tree for foreground of same scene. Blurred fence below is actual fence but is out of focus." |
| Image ID: | 58621 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1929 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Raphine |
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| State: | Virginia |
| Collection Name: | International Harvester Company photo albums, circa 1899-1965 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 7Z, Album 357 pg. 57 |
| Original Dimensions: | 9.5 x 7.5 inches |
| See also Image ID: 58620 for a photograph from the set of the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper", and Image ID: 2497 for an advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper. |
| Motion pictures |
| Painting |
| Implements, utensils, etc. |
| Landscape |
| Croplands |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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