[Kern County, California]: McClung Ranch – Vintage Print
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(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures [Kern County, California]: McClung Ranch 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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[Kern County, California]: McClung Ranch
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Kern County's McClung Ranch, photographed in 1888, sits in the southern San Joaquin Valley, where irrigated farming expanded rapidly in the late 1800s. The caption card's subject tags point to a working ranch with steam engines, water pumps, hay, hops, and farm machinery, plus a tag for Chinese in the United States, a reminder of the many Chinese laborers who worked California's fields and irrigation systems in this period. The record is an old, unverified caption, so the exact operations shown are best confirmed by examining the print closely. Even so, the mix of machinery and crops reflects how mechanized and water-dependent valley agriculture had become by the end of the century.
| Created / published | 1888 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | No. 631. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Steam engines; Chinese in U.S.; Ranches; Geogr.; Farms and farming; Farm machinery; Hay; Hops; Water pumps. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,189 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145143 |
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