Beardsley, Arizona, 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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A window into the past: Beardsley, Arizona, 1908, preserved in this historic image. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Beardsley, Arizona
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Beardsley, Arizona, 1908
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Beardsley, Arizona, in 1908 sat on the open desert northwest of Phoenix in Maricopa County, and its fortunes were tied to the wider valley's farm trade. Growers there hauled alfalfa, grain and garden produce toward Phoenix, where merchants and feed dealers handled the sales, and the copper camps farther off in the territory created a steady demand for valley food and hay. A townsite like this depended on dependable wagon roads and access to a rail line for shipping, and on neighbors who could organize a school, a church or a meeting hall in a place where families were still clearing land and building houses. The photograph captures the flat, lightly built settlement at a moment when its residents were still deciding whether the desert would support them.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | california panorama co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Arizona |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,355 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Beardsley, Arizona |
| Reference | AZ Beardsley 1908 |
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