Farm scene, Owyhee country, Idaho, 1909 – Vintage Photo Print
(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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This rare historic image captures Farm scene, Owyhee country, Idaho, 1909 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Farm scene, Owyhee country
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Farm scene, Owyhee country, Idaho, 1909
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Owyhee County, in southwestern Idaho, was in 1909 a region in transition, with its mining boom of the 1860s and 1870s well past and its economy shifting toward irrigated farming along the Snake River and its tributaries. Settlers who came in under the federal Desert Land Act and later reclamation projects had turned sagebrush flats into fields of alfalfa, grain, and orchard crops, and the small towns of the valley depended on wagon roads and the Oregon Short Line railway to move what they grew. Silver City, the county seat set high in the Owyhee Mountains, had shrunk from its earlier days as a mining center, so farm families and merchants on the lower ground increasingly shaped local affairs. This farm scene captures the working landscape that people in the county would have recognized as their own in 1909.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | trowbridge & niver co., geo. r. lawrence co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Idaho |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 2,694 px · prints to 18 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Farm scene, Owyhee country |
| Reference | ID Farm scene, Owyhee country1909 |
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