Bicycle riders in parade on the Fourth of July at Vale, Oregon – Historic 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Bicycle riders in parade on the Fourth of July at Vale, Oregon. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Bicycle riders in parade on the Fourth of July at Vale, Oregon
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Bicycle riders in a Fourth of July parade through Vale, a small town in eastern Oregon's Malheur County, make up the subject of this July 1941 photograph. Parades like this were a common part of small-town holiday life across the rural West, when children and young adults decorated their bikes and rode alongside floats and marching bands. The image was made on a nitrate negative and later copied through the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information collection, which documented American life during the Depression and the early war years. Its date places it just months before the United States entered World War II.
| Created / published | 1941 July. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm. |
| Genre | Nitrate negatives. |
| Notes | Title and other information from caption card. Digital file made from the original print, not the original negative. United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. |
| Subjects | United States--Oregon--Vale. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,288 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-206744 |
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