Buffalo Grain Elevators 191, New York – Vintage Wall Art
(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: Buffalo Grain Elevators 191, New York, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Concrete - central elevators, total capacity 4,500,000 bushels, Eastern Grain, Mill & Elevator Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Buffalo Grain Elevators 191, New York
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Buffalo, New York, in 1919 was one of the largest grain-handling ports in the world, a position it had held since the Erie Canal and later the Great Lakes shipping trade funneled Midwestern wheat and corn to its waterfront. The city's grain elevators, many of them massive concrete and steel structures lining the Buffalo River and the harbor, received cargo from lake freighters and transferred it to canal boats and railcars bound for eastern markets. Buffalo also ranked among the nation's major railroad and steel centers, and its population had grown quickly over the previous half century. The end of the First World War that year brought a return of demand for shipping and labor, though the grain trade's dependence on lake navigation and rail links kept the waterfront at the center of local livelihoods.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--New York |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,646 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Concrete - central elevators, total capacity 4,500,000 bushels, Eastern Grain, Mill & Elevator Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y. |
| Reference | NY Buffalo Grain Elevators 191 |
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