Des Moines river front, Iowa, 1919 – Historic Photograph Print
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A window into the past: Des Moines river front, Iowa, 1919, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Des Moines river front, Iowa, 1919
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Des Moines, the state capital of Iowa, sat where the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers meet, and by 1919 its riverfront served a city that had grown well past its nineteenth-century beginnings. The city's economy rested on insurance, state government, printing and publishing, and a wide range of manufacturing, while its railroads carried grain, livestock, and coal from the surrounding farms and mines to markets farther east. Residents had just come through the end of the First World War and the influenza epidemic of 1918, and the city's civic life was shaped by a strong sense of local pride tied to the capitol and its downtown. The riverbanks, bridges, and river flats were familiar to everyone who lived there as places of work, commerce, and occasional flooding.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Iowa |
| Original scan | 13,513 × 1,200 px · prints to 45 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | IA Des Moines river front 1919 |
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