Grand River Valley Palisade, Colorado, 1908 – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Grand River Valley Palisade, Colorado, 1908. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Grand River Valley, Palisade, Colo.
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Grand River Valley Palisade, Colorado, 1908
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Palisade, Colorado, sat in the Grand River Valley in 1908, when the Colorado River still went by the name Grand River in local usage. The town's economy rested on fruit, especially peaches, grapes, and apples grown on irrigated orchards watered by canals drawn from the river. Growers shipped their crops by rail through nearby Grand Junction to markets farther east, so the valley's prosperity depended on the rail line as much as on the soil. A panoramic view of the valley would have shown a community whose orchards, ditches, and bluffs were the basis of its identity, and whose residents measured their year by the harvest and the water supply.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | mcclure, louis charles |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Colorado |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 962 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Grand River Valley, Palisade, Colo. |
| Reference | CO Grand River Valley Palisade 1908 |
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