Panoramic street scene with 'MARION IA' printed on the roadway – Historic Photograph Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic print of Panoramic street scene with 'MARION IA' printed on the roadway brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Panoramic street scene with 'MARION IA' printed on the roadway
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Marion, Iowa, is the town named on the roadway here, painted or printed across the street in letters large enough to read from the camera's wide view. Panoramic photographs like this one were popular in the first decade of the twentieth century, when studios and traveling photographers sold oversized prints of main streets, storefronts, and gatherings to residents who wanted a record of their town. Dated 1907, the picture captures a Midwestern community at a time when horse-drawn traffic and early automobiles shared the same dirt or early paved roads. Its wide format makes it a useful window on the everyday layout of a small Iowa town in that era.
| Created / published | 1907 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 2,550 × 750 px · prints to 8 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | IA Marion 1907 |
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