Bay City, Tex., Nov. 26, 1912, Texas, 1912 – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Bay City, Tex., Nov. 26, 1912, Texas, 1912 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view, Bay City, Tex., Nov. 26, 1912
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Bay City, Tex., Nov. 26, 1912, Texas, 1912
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Bay City, Texas, photographed in late November 1912, sat on the Colorado River in Matagorda County, a flat coastal prairie where farming was reshaping the land. Rice and cotton were the main crops, and the irrigation canals and rice mills that came with the rice boom were drawing new settlers and capital to the Gulf Coast. The town's fortunes depended on the railroad that carried its harvests to market and on the bay ports nearby. The picture was taken only two days before Thanksgiving, so the street and the people in it would have been preparing for the holiday, a reminder of how closely town life followed the farming calendar.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Creator | novelty studio |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 953 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view, Bay City, Tex., Nov. 26, 1912 |
| Reference | TX 1912 Bay City, Tex., Nov. 26, 1912 |
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