A farmer tills the soil behind his steel plow pulled by a team of horses in Medina County, Ohio. The rural setting is located outside the greater Cleveland metropolitan area where photographer Albert E. Schaaf resided.

Medina County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 182,470. Its county seat is Medina, and its largest city is Brunswick.

The county was created in 1812 and later organized in 1818.It is named for Medina, Saudi Arabia.Medina County is part of the Cleveland, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, although parts of the county are included in the urban area of Akron. -Wikipedia (2024)

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Mr. Schaaf was well known for his photography. His home-oil pictures hang in salons all over the world. Recently the Smithsonian Institution requested some of his old pictures. Two sons survive. – The New York Times– obituary excerpt, June 9, 1950

Albert Ernest Schaaf: 1866-1950

Amateur photographer and Cleveland industrialist Albert E. Schaaf, a business executive in bicycle and automobile manufacturing in his early career, became the founder and eventual chairman of the board of the Air-Maze Corporation in 1925, a manufacturer of air and liquid filters that became a pioneer in their development across a wide range of uses. Vintage Works, LTD. website states: “Schaaf became photographically active in the teens and 1920s. He was known to work in alternative processes, including gum prints, oil prints, bromoils and bromoil transfers.”