Eagle Grove, Iowa, 1912 – Vintage 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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Step back in time with Eagle Grove, Iowa, 1912, a historic image rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Panoram of Eagle Grove, IA
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Eagle Grove, Iowa, 1912
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Eagle Grove, Iowa, in 1912 was a Wright County farm town whose fortunes followed the broader prosperity of the Iowa countryside after the lean years of the 1890s. Rising land values and fair prices for farm products gave many families in the surrounding township money for new houses, storefronts, and machinery, and local merchants relied on that trade. The 1912 presidential campaign, which split Republican voters between William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive party, was debated at meetings and in the weekly newspapers townspeople read closely. A view of the town from this year would have shown residents the church spires, school buildings, and main street they knew as the center of daily life.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Creator | myklebust, c. p. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Iowa |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,045 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Panoram of Eagle Grove, IA |
| Reference | IA Eagle Grove 1912 |
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