Unionville, Missouri, 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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Unionville, Missouri, 1908 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Unionville, Missouri
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Unionville, Missouri, 1908
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In 1908, Unionville sat in Putnam County in northeast Missouri, and its residents followed the presidential race between William Howard Taft and William Jennings Bryan closely, as they did most national contests. Rural Missouri was then mostly Democratic, so local arguments over tariffs, railroads, and the price of farm goods tended to play out at the county courthouse and in the town's newspapers. The Good Roads movement was gaining support across the state, and farm families pressed for better dirt and gravel roads so that wagons could reach town in wet weather. Rural free delivery was also spreading, bringing mail carriers out to farmhouses and tying the surrounding countryside more closely to the county seat.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | dye, m. e. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Missouri |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 865 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Unionville, Missouri |
| Reference | MO Unionville 1908 |
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