Phoenix, Arizona, 1908 – Antique 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 Phoenix, Arizona, 1908. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Capitol Bldg., Phoenix, Arizona
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Phoenix, Arizona, 1908
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Phoenix in 1908 was still the capital of a territory that would not become a state until 1912, and residents were already pressing for statehood while the town grew. Its farms and orchards depended on water, and the federal Roosevelt Dam, begun in 1905, was rising on the Salt River upstream to store water for the valley's irrigated land. Downtown business ran on the trade of growers, merchants and visiting travelers, and the city's population was climbing toward about 11,000 by the 1910 census. A panorama of the town from that year would have shown a place that people saw as a growing agricultural and government center in the desert.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Arizona |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,268 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Capitol Bldg., Phoenix, Arizona |
| Reference | AZ Phoenix 1 1908 |
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