Subduing the desert, Imperial Valley, California – Vintage Wall Art
(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 Subduing the desert, Imperial Valley, California. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Subduing the desert, Imperial Valley, California
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A long panoramic print, nearly four feet wide, shows teams of horses pulling plows across open ground in California's Imperial Valley, where turning desert scrub into farmland was still a recent undertaking around 1913. The valley's fields depended on water carried from the Colorado River through irrigation canals, and breaking the soil with plows was among the first steps before crops could follow. The image was submitted for copyright in March 1913 by S. U. Bunnell, which makes it a record of the agricultural push that was reshaping the desert at that time.
| Created / published | c1913. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 7.5 x 47 in. |
| Genre | 45 Stevenson Ave. |
| Notes | J179556 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; S. U. Bunnell; March 25, 1913. On verso: Duplicate copies mailed on receipt of $2.80 |
| Subjects | Plows. Horses. Farming.United States--California--Imperial Valley. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,210 × 729 px · prints to 14 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 6a01733u Subduing the desert, |
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