9th Ave Winfield, Kansas, 1910 – 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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9th Ave Winfield, Kansas, 1910 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: 9th Ave., Winfield, Kansas, 1910
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9th Ave Winfield, Kansas, 1910
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Winfield, the seat of Cowley County in south-central Kansas, was a market town of wheat farms and grain elevators in 1910, shaped by the railroads that reached it in the 1870s and 1880s. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe line helped make it a shipping point for the surrounding wheat and livestock, and the town's mills and business blocks served farm families from across the county. Winfield was also a college town, home to Southwestern College, a Methodist school, which gave its streets a steady flow of students alongside merchants and farmers. Residents of 1910 knew the town as a county center where courthouse business, church life, and the annual fair drew people in from the countryside, and a street like Ninth Avenue would have carried wagons, streetcar-era foot traffic, and the bustle of Saturday trade.
| Created / published | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Creator | morgan, chas. m. (charles m.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Kansas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 884 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | 9th Ave., Winfield, Kansas, 1910 |
| Reference | KS 9th Ave Winfield, 1910 |
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