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A Field Guide to American Windmills
T. Lindsay Baker, an expert historian on windmills, has written about wind-power history for twenty-five years. His album contains historic images captured by professional windmiller B. H. âTexâ Burdick and from corporate archives of windmill manufacturers. It depicts windmills in a wide range of settings and usesânot only on ranches and farms but also alongside railroads, in industry, and even in urban areas.
The photos chosen for this book illustrate windmill manufacture, distribution, and use in all regions of the United States, with an emphasis on the Great Plains. They take us into the factories to show how commercial windmills were mass-produced and marketedâand also into rural America to show how inventive individuals designed their own homemade wind machines.
An introduction by photography historian John Carter provides an overview of the importance of windmills in rural life and Americansâ compulsion for photographing them.
About: Presents nearly 180 striking images of historic windmills across North America, capturing the wind machines in a wide range of settings and uses and documenting both the construction of commercial machines and the innovative designs of individuals who built their own.
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