Rapid City, 6th and Main Sts, South Dakota, 1912 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Rapid City, 6th and Main Sts, South Dakota, 1912, preserved in this historic image. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: [Rapid City, South Dakota, view of 6th and Main Sts.]
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Rapid City, 6th and Main Sts, South Dakota, 1912
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Rapid City, South Dakota, in 1912 was a young railroad and ranching town on the eastern edge of the Black Hills, having grown up after the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway reached it in 1886. The town served as a supply center for cattle and timber operations in the surrounding hills and for the gold mining camps farther west, and its streets at the intersection of Sixth and Main were lined with commercial blocks, hotels and wooden storefronts. Local life revolved around the stockyards, lumber yards and the courthouse, and residents knew the community as the gateway to the Black Hills and to Mount Rushmore's region, though the monument itself was not begun until 1927. A panoramic view from this corner captures a town still expanding, with the business district giving way quickly to open prairie.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Creator | collins, w. j. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--South Dakota |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,312 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Rapid City, South Dakota, view of 6th and Main Sts.] |
| Reference | SD 1912 Rapid City, 6th and Main Sts |
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