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Northwest view of American Beet Sugar Co. factory, Rocky Ford, Colorado – Vintage Photo Print

Northwest view of American Beet Sugar Co. factory, Rocky Ford, Colorado, c1902. — historic photograph
Northwest view of American Beet Sugar Co. factory, Rocky Ford, Colorado, c1902.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 Northwest view of American Beet Sugar Co. factory, Rocky Ford, Colorado in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Northwest view of American Beet Sugar Co. factory, Rocky Ford, Colorado

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Taken from the northwest, this photograph shows the American Beet Sugar Company factory in Rocky Ford, a town in the irrigated Arkansas River valley of southeastern Colorado. The c1902 date places it in the early years of the sugar beet industry in the American West, when irrigated farms around Rocky Ford supplied beets to processing plants that turned them into refined sugar. The caption card, whose data is unverified, links the building to the beet crop, a reminder of how closely a single factory depended on the surrounding fields. Views like this one document the industrial buildings that anchored farm communities of the period.

Created / publishedc1902.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Industry--Sugar--Bldg. ext; Colo.--Rocky Ford; Food Crops--Beets; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,081 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-146348

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