Louisiana Rice Fields, 1910 – 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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Step back in time with Louisiana Rice Fields, 1910, a historic image rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: In the rice fields of La.
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Louisiana Rice Fields, 1910
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In 1910, the prairie parishes around Crowley and Jennings in southwest Louisiana were in the middle of a rice boom. The crop had only taken hold a generation earlier, after Abe Hoffpauir brought Honduras rice to Vermilion Parish in the mid-1880s, and farmers had since learned to flood their fields with water from artesian wells. Railroad towns along the Southern Pacific line shipped the harvest to mills, and Crowley promoted itself as a rice center. Panoramic views of these flat fields, with their levees and irrigation ditches, showed residents how far the industry had reshaped the landscape.
| Created / published | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Creator | barnett, a. l. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Louisiana |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 725 px · prints to 18 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | In the rice fields of La. |
| Reference | LA Louisiana Rice Fields 1910 |
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