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• The Library of Congress 13 photos
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• State Library of Queensland 4 photos
• Cornell University Library 3 photos
• Nationaal Archief 3 photos
• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection 3 photos
• National Library of Australia 2 photos
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 2 photos
• Fylkesarkivet i Vestland 2 photos
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 2 photos
• OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons 2 photos
• New York Public Library 2 photos

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August 9, 1920

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 2 older comments, and then…
• Stuart said:

  Very docile and obliging cows. Try milking an untethered cow - usually, they just walk on leaving you and pail behind.

• Swordscookie said:

  Excellent photo but I suspect it was a bit staged? As Stu says milking in a field is likely to leave you sitting on your rear as the cow walks off looking for greener grass. It does show a few changes from present day farms though, such as the horns on the cows, you'd never see them today.

• Wiblick said:

  I think I see a spancel on the back left leg of the cow, hidden by the bucket on the other side, fettering would have made the staging of the photo a bit easier.

• Stuart said:

  Wiblick Well spotted. Never noticed it before!

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Stuart Me either! So thanks to Wiblick for spotting this...

[Flemish milk women, Antwerp, Belgium] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• skillful north said:

  How quaint

• green_lover (your COMMENTS are welcome!) said:

  Absolutely great! I love this photo :)

Roy Vanderwall weighing milk on his farm in the Muddy Creek community in Baker County, Oregon, July 23, 1925.

from OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons

• Pixel Wrangler said:

  I wonder if this photo was taken by G. W. Ackerman ... rather than G. D. (or maybe just a typo) George W. Ackerman "During a nearly 40-year career with the Department of Agriculture, George W. Ackerman (1884-1962) estimated that he took over 50,000 photographs. Ackerman began working as a photographer for the Bureau of Plant Industry in 1910 at a salary of $900 a year. In 1917 he moved to the Federal Extension Service, and in that position, he traveled around the country photographing rural life. His photographs appeared in many private and Government agricultural publications, although they were not usually credited to him." – National Archives

• OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons said:

  Good catch Pixel Wrangler! I checked the back of the photo, where I found "GD Ackerman" -- but when I looked on the backs of the other photos in the folder they all said GW. Tiah