Ontario, Oregon, 1907 – Historic Photograph 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 Ontario, Oregon, 1907. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Ontario
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Ontario, Oregon, 1907
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Ontario, Oregon, in 1907 was a young farm and railroad town on the Snake River, where Oregon meets Idaho at the mouth of the Malheur River. Malheur County had been carved out of Baker County only about two decades earlier, in 1887, and the county seat was still building its civic life around the rail line that had brought settlers and freight into the high desert. Local farmers grew grain, hay and alfalfa and raised livestock, and their fortunes depended on water drawn from the rivers and on the shipping that the railroad made possible. A town this size would have known itself mainly through its depot, its stores, its churches and its surrounding fields, and it was still deciding how far its irrigated acres would stretch across the sagebrush.
| Created / published | 1907 |
|---|---|
| Creator | harvey, c. e. (chester eugene) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Oregon |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 987 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Ontario |
| Reference | OR 1907 Ontario |
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