Shoshone Falls, Idaho, 1909 – Historic Photograph 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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This rare historic image captures Shoshone Falls, Idaho, 1909 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Shoshone Falls, Idaho
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Shoshone Falls, Idaho, 1909
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Shoshone Falls, on the Snake River in south-central Idaho, was already a famous sight in 1909, with a drop of about 212 feet that people often compared to Niagara. The falls sat a few miles from Twin Falls, a town founded only a few years earlier as part of a large irrigation effort in the Snake River Plain. Canals and the Milner Dam were turning sagebrush desert into farmland for alfalfa, sugar beets, and grain, and the railroad that served the area carried those crops out. Visitors came to see the falls as an outing, and locals measured the valley's progress by how far the water had been pushed onto new fields.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | bandholtz, f. j. (frederick j.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Idaho |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,296 × 1,089 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Shoshone Falls, Idaho |
| Reference | ID Shoshone Falls, 1909 |
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