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Jordan Valley, Oregon - 1919-20? - Main Street – Historic Photograph Print

Jordan Valley, Oregon - 1919-20? - Main Street, [between 1919 and 1920?] — historic photograph
Jordan Valley, Oregon - 1919-20? - Main Street, [between 1919 and 1920?]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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This rare historic photograph captures Jordan Valley, Oregon - 1919-20? - Main Street in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Jordan Valley, Oregon - 1919-20? - Main Street

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Main Street in Jordan Valley, a small ranching town in eastern Oregon near the Idaho border, is the subject here, with automobiles parked along the roadway. The record dates the view to roughly 1919 to 1920, though that date is uncertain and comes from a caption card rather than verified data. Otto M. Jones made the photoprint, and the presence of cars in a town this remote captures the early years when motor vehicles were moving into rural American streets that had been built for horses and wagons.

Created / published[between 1919 and 1920?]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhotoprint by Otto M. Jones. No. J73 D-5. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ore.--Jordan Valley--1919-1920?; Automobiles--1919-1920?; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,098 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151970

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