[Entry point of the New River into the United States at Calexico and Mexicali, view toward west] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Entry point of the New River into the United States at Calexico and Mexicali, view toward west], c1987. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4d/4df5e3ab69a7-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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[Entry point of the New River into the United States at Calexico and Mexicali, view toward west]
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A river that flows north is unusual enough to catch the eye, and this view shows the New River as it enters the United States near Calexico, with Mexicali on the far side of the line. The river carries sewage, industrial waste, and farm runoff from the Mexicali Valley, and by the late 1980s it was widely regarded as one of the most polluted waterways in the country. Peter Goin included the picture as plate 41 in *Tracing the Line* (1987), a survey of the Mexican-American border that looks at how the boundary shapes the land and the communities along it.
| Created / published | c1987. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1980-1990.Book illustrations 1980-1990. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Tracing the line: a photographic survey of the Mexican-American border / Peter Goin. [Reno, Nev.: P. Goin, 1987, plate 41]. Copyright by Peter Goin. |
| Subjects | Boundaries--Mexican-American Border Region--1980-1990. New River (Mexico and Calif.)--1980-1990. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,662 × 3,742 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221638 |
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