Principal street of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1908 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Principal street of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1908 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: [Panoramic photograph of the principal street of Akron, Iowa]
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Principal street of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1908
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Sioux Falls, the largest city in South Dakota in 1908, was built around the cataracts of the Big Sioux River, where water power had drawn mills and factories since the 1860s. The city's economy rested on flour milling, meatpacking and other processing, and on the granite and quartzite quarries nearby, whose stone went into buildings across the region. Railroad lines brought grain, livestock and settlers into town, and the business district along the main street served farm families from across the surrounding counties who came in on Saturdays to trade and conduct business. Residents in 1908 knew their city as the Minnehaha County seat and as a growing center of commerce on the prairie, still a few decades removed from its frontier beginnings.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fox, g. w. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--South Dakota |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,223 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Panoramic photograph of the principal street of Akron, Iowa] |
| Reference | SD 1908 Principal street of Sioux Falls |
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