Street scene, San Benito, Texas, 1911 – 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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Step back in time with Street scene, San Benito, Texas, 1911, a historic image rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Street scene, San Benito, Texas
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Street scene, San Benito, Texas, 1911
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San Benito, Texas, in 1911 was a young farming town in the lower Rio Grande Valley, set among irrigated fields that had recently been cleared from brush country and planted in orchards and truck gardens. Railroads and irrigation canals drew settlers from the North and Midwest, who grew citrus, vegetables, and cotton and shipped their crops out by rail. Across the river, the Mexican Revolution had begun the previous year, and news of fighting, refugees, and border raids reached residents on the Texas side as a constant concern. A street scene like this one would have shown merchants, wagons, and townspeople building a community quickly, with stores, schools, and churches going up as the population grew. Most people there knew the town first for its farms and for the water that made them possible.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Creator | hart & thompson |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 971 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Street scene, San Benito, Texas |
| Reference | TX 1911 Street scene, San Benito |
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