Salt River Project Arizona; desert before cultivation; Camel Back Mountain in background – Vintage Wall Art
![Salt River Project Arizona; desert before cultivation; Camel Back Mountain in background, [between 1910 and 1935] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/27/278bc6369144-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with Salt River Project Arizona; desert before cultivation; Camel Back Mountain in background, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Salt River Project Arizona; desert before cultivation; Camel Back Mountain in background
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Camel Back Mountain rises behind this stretch of Arizona desert, shown before the land was irrigated for farming. The scene belongs to the Salt River Project, the irrigation effort in the Salt River Valley near Phoenix that drew on water stored behind Roosevelt Dam, completed in 1911. The National Photo Company made many views of the valley's transformation from scrubland to fields, and its promotional photographs were meant to show what new water could make possible. This copy was made from a glass negative dated between 1910 and 1935, and its surface shows streaks from the deterioration of the original coating.
| Created / published | [between 1910 and 1935] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Copy neg. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven. |
| Subjects | United States--Arizona. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 7,227 × 5,529 px · prints to 24 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-260731 |
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