Ray, North Dakota, 1914 – Historic Photograph 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: Ray, North Dakota, 1914, 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: Ray, N. Dak.
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Ray, North Dakota, 1914
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Ray, in Williams County in northwestern North Dakota, was a young railroad town in 1914, built up during the homestead rush that brought settlers onto the prairie after 1900. Its economy rested on wheat, flax, and other small grains that farmers hauled by wagon to elevators and shipped by rail. The region was still expanding, with new families arriving faster than schools, churches, and roads could keep up. Within a few years, drought and falling grain prices would test many of the claims made on this land, and the optimism of a town only a decade or so old was about to meet hard years on the plains.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Creator | olson, christen v., olson studio |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--North Dakota |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,534 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Ray, N. Dak. |
| Reference | ND 1914 Ray |
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