Buckwheat growing in Fairbanks, Alaska – Vintage Wall Art
![Buckwheat growing in Fairbanks, Alaska, [between 1918 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b9/b98a9310a486-L.webp)
(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 Buckwheat growing in Fairbanks, Alaska in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Buckwheat growing in Fairbanks, Alaska
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Buckwheat fields in Fairbanks are an unexpected sight in a photograph from the Interior of Alaska, where short growing seasons and cold soils made farming a difficult proposition. Fairbanks was founded during the gold rush at the turn of the 20th century, and by the late 1910s territorial agriculture experiments were testing hardy grains and vegetables that could mature before frost. Buckwheat, a fast-growing crop often used for feed and flour, suited that effort. The picture comes from the National Photo Company, a commercial studio whose glass negatives document the country in the years after World War I, and its faint streaks and blemishes are typical of aging glass plates from that period.
| Created / published | [between 1918 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch one. |
| Subjects | Croplands. Buckwheat. United States--Alaska--Fairbanks North Star County--Fairbanks. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 4,486 × 3,464 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-229591 |
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