Captured from an unusually low, dramatic vantage point, this photograph shows a young farmhand taking a brief rest atop a wagonload of freshly gathered hay. The steep gable of a wood-plank barn and a towering pine rise behind him, while the blurred silhouette of a harnessed horse in the foreground grounds the scene in the everyday rhythms of farm labor. Images like this, taken with hand-held box cameras, offer an intimate counterpoint to formally staged portraits of the period. Project: 218577