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Old agriculture and farming photographs from Quirky PrintsHow many of us have found ourselves looking wistfully at those beautiful and tranquil old agriculture and farming photographs that captured rural life in England in the 19th century? These vintage images, which we stumble across in antique shops or spot in magazines and books, give us a taste of how life used to be lived, in the peaceful English countryside of years ago. Of course, the reality is often dramatically different to the picture portrayed to us. Old agriculture and farming photographs, with their appealing old images of farmers scything corn, making haystacks, harvesting and working the land, belie the scale of the tasks the farm workers had to undertake. In addition, just how physically demanding and strenuous the work was! Working with horses was one way of making the heavy farm work much easier. Ploughing, harvesting and the moving of heavy farm loads were all made more manageable with the help of carthorses. This is one of the most enduring images many of us have in our minds, when we thinking of farming from years ago, and it is often captured in old agriculture and farming photographs. Quirky Prints has done all the ‘heavy work’ for its customers, by visiting hundreds of antique shops, collectors fairs, vintage photograph dealers and specialists around the country, to collect an archive of thousands of hand picked vintage photographs from bygone times. Among the numerous old photographs in sepia, black and white and hand coloured collected, were some stunning and beautiful old agriculture and farming photographs from bygone days These forgotten, but delightful old black and white vintage photographs make the most beautiful photographic prints to hang in our homes, or give to friends of unique gifts. No matter that we know nothing of the people or places in these vintage photographs. They are moments frozen in time, photographic prints with their own unique story to tell and they have as much meaning and resonance with us today, as they had for those involved in creating the vintage photograph all those years ago. Within the AGRICULTURE category on their website, Quirky Prints offers a selection of unique rare vintage photographs. Sepia and black and white photographs of 19th century farming show us photographic scenes of sheep herding, haymaking and country life, without the mechanisation, crop spraying and intensive farming that we are familiar with today. The original old agriculture and farming photographs are all reproduced on fine quality art paper to preserve all the fine detail and quality of the image. They are presented in contemporary metal frames, which have been carefully chosen both to enhance the images and to complement any style of home decor. For anyone uninspired and bored with the same old framed art prints offered for sale in the high street – those thousands of similar photographic prints that appear on the walls of thousands of homes across the UK - Quirky Prints offers something new, some different - Something Quirky in fact! There are 32 other categories to choose from on the website – including Architecture to World Wars I & II – with thousands of restored images taken from original vintage photographs. Each of the old black and white photographs is carefully restored to remove any damage, but preserve the originality of the image. The result is a remarkable visual time capsule of years gone by. Within the collection of old agriculture and farming photographs on the Quirky Prints website, we are able to enjoy the memory of how rural life was lived a century ago. So browse our old agriculture and farming photographs in the Quirky Prints online art gallery and fill your lungs with those farming smells we love! |
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