Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0268Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a family standing outside of a farm house, two cows are pulling a wagon while two horses pull another wagon. Above the image "T353 (Star)" is printed, below the image "V30043T A Comfortable Farmhouse, near Betziesdorf, Southern Prussia, Germany." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V30043
A FARM HOME IN CENTRAL GERMANY
We are in southwestern Prussia, not far from Cassel, the capital of the province of Hessen-Nassau. Much good agricultural land exists in this region and the farmers are fairly well-to-do. Though many of them cling to old-fashioned tools and methods, modern agricultural machinery is gradually being introduced, and would probably have come still more rapidly into general use had the people not been so greatly impoverished by the World War. German famers in such districts as this often form co-operative socities, and with the combined capital are enabled to buy machinery, fertilizers, and other agriculutral necessitites on better terms than coould be secured by the average individual.
This old farmhouse,with its picturesque timebering lendning decorative effect to constructive necessity, has already sheltered many generations and will doubtless stand for years to come, - perhaps without recieving the modern sanitary improvements which could render it as comfrotable as it is artistic. Such houses are often more pleasing to the eyes of an artist than in the expereince of a city visitor. These girls, who have been doing their share in the heavy field work, are probably better off than the woman whose duties keep them housed in an ill-ventilated kitchen or in a village facotry.
Although families dwelling on such fams as this lead severely simple lives, the people are all fairly well educated. The children of such families spend the greater part of the year in school, for elementary education is compulsory throughout Prussia and actual illiteracy is very rare.
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