Shenandoah, Iowa, 1908 – 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 Shenandoah, Iowa, 1908, 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: Shenandoah, IA
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Shenandoah, Iowa, 1908
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Shenandoah, Iowa, in 1908 was a railroad town in the southwest corner of the state, near the Missouri border. Its growth had come with the rail lines that reached the area in the late 1800s, and by the early twentieth century nurseries and seed growers had made the town known across the Midwest for its plantings and mail-order stock. Farm families from the surrounding countryside came in to trade on Saturdays, and the commercial streets and church steeples visible in a view like this one reflected a community that depended on agriculture and the shipping of its products. Iowa in these years was also deep in the progressive-era reforms and local civic improvements that shaped small county-seat and railroad towns alike. Residents of Shenandoah would have known the town first as a place of nurseries, trains, and busy weekday markets.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | bandholtz, f. j. (frederick j.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Iowa |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,158 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Shenandoah, IA |
| Reference | IA Shenandoah 1908 |
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