Kern County products--Kern County exhibit – Vintage 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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Step back in time with Kern County products--Kern County exhibit, 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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Kern County products--Kern County exhibit
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Produce from Kern County, in California's southern San Joaquin Valley, fills this agricultural exhibit in San Francisco, where counties competed to show what their land could grow. Carleton Watkins, one of the best-known photographers of the American West, made the image in 1887 and catalogued it as number 287. Exhibits like this one helped growing regions advertise their harvests to buyers and prospective settlers. Railroads had reached Bakersfield, the county seat, in the 1870s, which tied the region's crops more closely to the rest of the state.
| Created / published | 1887 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Watkin's photo. no. 287. |
| Subjects | Farm produce--California--Kern County--1880-1890. Agricultural exhibits--California--San Francisco--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,449 × 1,144 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219391 |
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