AA-2026-4070C5
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At what the pennants and exhibition tents identify as a trade fair or agricultural exposition, two women in full-skirted suits have stopped in front of a machine whose tires stand taller than they do — a heavy earthmover or articulated tractor painted a bright institutional yellow-green, the kind of equipment that in the 1950s was being held up as proof that the postwar world had gotten very serious about moving dirt. The woman in navy has tilted her head back to look straight up at the grille, handbag over her wrist, with the appraising expression of someone who has been told this is impressive and is deciding whether she agrees. A girl of perhaps eight reaches out and touches the tire with one hand, performing the same inspection at a lower altitude. This was the decade when machinery was genuinely exciting to the general public — when a manufacturer could repaint a bulldozer, wheel it onto an exposition floor, and draw a Sunday crowd of women in good coats who came not because they intended to buy one but because the scale of the thing was the point.
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Women at the Giant Tractor Display, Trade Exposition, 1950s. 1954–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-4070C5. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/women-at-the-giant-tractor-display-trade-exposition-1950s.
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