De Smet, South Dakota, 1912 – Antique 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: De Smet, South Dakota, 1912, preserved in this historic image. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: View of Desmet [sic], S.D. from Court House
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De Smet, South Dakota, 1912
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De Smet, in Kingsbury County, South Dakota, was a young railroad town in 1912, roughly three decades after the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul line reached the area and settlers began claiming homesteads on the surrounding prairie. Wheat, oats, and other small grains were the basis of its economy, and the grain elevators and loading platforms along the tracks gave the town its purpose: farm produce went out by rail and merchandise came in. The town took its name from Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, the Jesuit missionary who had traveled widely among the tribes of the northern plains. Many residents had arrived during the land rush of the 1880s, and by 1912 they were living with the memory of the hard years that followed the boom, when drought and falling prices tested families who had staked everything on sod and a claim. Those who had come through that period knew the town as a place that had survived its own early overreach.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Creator | mckibben, c. s. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--South Dakota |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 973 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Desmet [sic], S.D. from Court House |
| Reference | SD 1912 De Smet |
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