This sepia-toned, wide-angle photograph captures a large steam tractor operating in a flat, open field. The tractor, positioned in the center of the frame, features a tall vertical smokestack, large metal wheels with deep treads, and a dark overhead canopy. It is hitched to a long piece of agricultural machinery, identified as a belt excavator, which extends toward the right. To the far right of this machinery, a dark-colored vintage automobile is parked in the field. The ground in the foreground is covered with low, dry vegetation and shows a long, straight trench or ditch being formed by the equipment. The horizon is a flat, distant line under a pale, featureless sky. A color calibration scale with gray and white rectangular blocks is positioned at the bottom center, located outside the boundary of the original photographic print.