Adel, Iowa, 1907 – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Adel, Iowa, 1907. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Adel, IA
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Adel, Iowa, 1907
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Adel, the county seat of Dallas County in west-central Iowa, was a small trade town on the Raccoon River in 1907, serving the farms that surrounded it. Its economy rested on corn, oats, and hogs raised on the rolling prairie, and grain buyers, livestock dealers, and shopkeepers did much of their business around the courthouse. Des Moines, about twenty miles east, was the nearest large market and the state capital, so Adel residents looked there for goods, news, and services. That October, a sharp national financial panic rattled banks across the country, a reminder that small-town fortunes in Iowa were tied to distant eastern credit markets as well as to the weather.
| Created / published | 1907 |
|---|---|
| Creator | bandholtz, f. j. (frederick j.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Iowa |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,161 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Adel, IA |
| Reference | IA Adel, 1907 |
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