Blue Lakes Farm, Idaho, 1913 – 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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Step back in time with Blue Lakes Farm, Idaho, 1913, a historic image rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Lower orchards, Blue Lakes Farm
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Blue Lakes Farm, Idaho, 1913
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Blue Lakes Farm, photographed in 1913, sat in the irrigated Snake River country of south-central Idaho, an area that had been dry sagebrush until canal builders brought river water onto it in the decade before. Settlers from the East and Midwest arrived in numbers after 1904, when the Twin Falls townsite was platted, and by 1913 their farms were turning out alfalfa, grain, hay, and dairy products for local markets and the railroads that served the valley. Irrigated land was expensive to develop, so families often ran small, intensive operations and relied on neighbors to keep the canals and ditches in working order. For the people who lived there, a farm like this stood for the hard-won promise of the new irrigation district, where water rights and land payments shaped daily life.
| Created / published | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Creator | bisbee, c. e. (clarence) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Idaho |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 2,122 px · prints to 18 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Lower orchards, Blue Lakes Farm |
| Reference | ID Blue Lakes Farm 1913 |
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